The Oxford-Shoe-Worn-Casually Appreciation Thread

[Stylewords]

Most of the people I know who catch every virus that's going around are those who live in a bubble of disinfected surfaces. I'm a firm believer that my Teflon immune system comes at least in part from the fact that I'm not obsessively clean. In all seriousness, I think we'd all benefit from occasional exposure to a little bathroom floor piss and shoes on the bed.

Totally agree. Nothing wrong with being exposed to dirt, muck and germs. The immune system needs it. All seems a bit Howard Hughes to think you can avoid it.

 

[mak1277]

Could you imagine if every parent threw away any piece of clothing or linen that their kid peed, pooped or puked on?

 

[ValidusLA]

Could you imagine if every parent threw away any piece of clothing or linen that their kid peed, pooped or puked on?

The first time you get your infants crap on you, you definitely chill out about phantom germs a bit.

 

[acapaca]

Could you imagine if every parent threw away any piece of clothing or linen that their kid peed, pooped or puked on?

Or that came into contact with shoes.

 

[yorkshire pud]

You guys think there could be a market for rubber slippers for germophobics??

"Like Condoms for your feet" ?

 

[VegasRebel]

What an amazing turn of events.

Seeing some of the household hygiene rules, I think I understand a bit better why oxfords with chinos is way down on my list of things to get upset about.

I laid down on my own rug to watch the game yesterday. A handful of people just recoiled in disgust.

 

[ValidusLA]

Me: "If someone put their shoes on the bed, what would you do?"

Mrs Validus: "Throw them in a gorge."

Me: "No, I mean to the bedding."

MV: "Oh...wash the comforter and sheets?"

Me: "You wouldn't throw the sheets out?"

MV: "Is that a real question? That's stupid."

 

[yorkshire pud]

What an amazing turn of events.

Seeing some of the household hygiene rules, I think I understand a bit better why oxfords with chinos is way down on my list of things to get upset about.

I laid down on my own rug to watch the game yesterday. A handful of people just recoiled in disgust.

I had to get underneath a Land-rover to remove the propshaft in a farmyard and possibly got some cowsh*t in my eye ?

 

[VegasRebel]

I had to get underneath a Land-rover to remove the propshaft in a farmyard and possibly got some cowsh*t in my eye ?

"I think so, Brain, but how did the cow fit under a Land Rover? NARF!"

 

[FlyingMonkey]

It's really instructive to read the accounts of the first Americans in Japan (Admiral Perry's crew) in Shimoda, quite near where my in-laws have property - they had no idea about bathing, believed that hot water made men weak, refused to take their boots off anywhere, destroying tatami floors, and subsisted mainly on large amounts of meat of everything they could find to be slaughtered, generally fried in lots of oil, so much so that the temple sub-building they were housed in was so disgusting that it had to be demolished when they left. There was a fundamental lack of respect for the manners, preferences and customs of others, of which the refusal to remove shoes was probably the least destructive...

(none of this is in any way to sugggest that Japan had some kind of superior culture BTW, but just in terms of personal hygeine I know which way I would have prefered)

 

[ValidusLA]

It's really instructive to read the accounts of the first Americans in Japan (Admiral Perry's crew) in Shimoda, quite near where my in-laws have property - they had no idea about bathing, believed that hot water made men weak, refused to take their boots off anywhere, destroying tatami floors, and subsisted mainly on large amounts of meat of everything they could find to be slaughtered, generally fried in lots of oil, so much so that the temple sub-building they were housed in was so disgusting that it had to be demolished when they left. There was a fundamental lack of respect for the manners, preferences and customs of others, of which the refusal to remove shoes was probably the least destructive...

(none of this is in any way to sugggest that Japan had some kind of superior culture BTW, but just in terms of personal hygeine I know which way I would have prefered)

Mid 19th century Americans were definitely not the cleanest, but everyone had gross customs.

Japanese Kuge noble women used an iron tannin mix to blacken their teeth, and they had an entire untouchable caste to touch all the dead stuff.

 

[JFWR]

It's really instructive to read the accounts of the first Americans in Japan (Admiral Perry's crew) in Shimoda, quite near where my in-laws have property - they had no idea about bathing, believed that hot water made men weak, refused to take their boots off anywhere, destroying tatami floors, and subsisted mainly on large amounts of meat of everything they could find to be slaughtered, generally fried in lots of oil, so much so that the temple sub-building they were housed in was so disgusting that it had to be demolished when they left. There was a fundamental lack of respect for the manners, preferences and customs of others, of which the refusal to remove shoes was probably the least destructive...

(none of this is in any way to sugggest that Japan had some kind of superior culture BTW, but just in terms of personal hygeine I know which way I would have prefered)

Source?

Because generally speaking, 19th century people took plenty of baths, so this strikes me as the type of old wives' tale that gets passed around. Plus, probably some culture shock on the other side, too, if these are Japanese accounts. Gaijin xenophobia has always been tinged with stereotypes of bigger, hairier, smellier, meat eating barbarians, etc.

 

[dieworkwear]

Source?

Because generally speaking, 19th century people took plenty of baths, so this strikes me as the type of old wives' tale that gets passed around. Plus, probably some culture shock on the other side, too, if these are Japanese accounts. Gaijin xenophobia has always been tinged with stereotypes of bigger, hairier, smellier, meat eating barbarians, etc.

Americans are notoriously dirty. As recently as the 21st century, many wore shoes in the home and urinated on the floor.

 

[ValidusLA]

Americans are notoriously dirty. As recently as the 21st century, many wore shoes in the home and urinated on the floor.

And yet people keep flocking to our pee covered floors....I mean shores.

 

[Wild Strawberry Rabbit]

Sorry for changing the topic but please call the sartorial police. I’m wearing oxfords with chinos today.