I'm so old I Remember when:

[sdm111]

Doesn't a shower just make them more wet?

Nah, wrap em in plastic bags

 

[jxp]

Can't stand a wet foot. My foot gets wet it's over, I'm going take a shower! Don't know what it is with me but no can't walk around with wet feet

And you live in Louisiana?

 

[Evadig]

My mother grew up in the 40s. If she went out -- anywhere -- she wore stockings, gloves, a hat, a dress, and heels.

What did these stockings look like? I don’t know what to wear with my 40’s dresses.

I’ve got knee-high thin socks, but I never see anyone on my 40’s sewing patterns wearing anything on their legs…

 

[BigBlueHen53]

They were sheer like pantyhose but had a seam up the back.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

During WWII when silk was being used for parachutes and stockings impossible to come by, I understand ladies would draw a line up the back of their legs with an eyebrow pencil so it would look like they were wearing stockings. No decent lady would appear in public with bare legs!

 

[notabitail]

Pantyhose were a MAJOR improvement over garter belts and stockings!

But nowadays I wear socks with sandals. Even to church. But they are very NICE sandals, lol! And I have health reasons ... so Lol.

I do barefeet all day, if I have to wear shoes it's sandals, and if it's a more dignified place than the thrift store, socks with sandals, and Sunday it's dress shoes, by far my least favorite shoe.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The only times I wear closed-toe shoes any more is: 1) boots when I'm chickening, and that's mostly bc of ticks and poop. And 2) tennis shoes to WM, bc I'm not comfortable driving in my sandals.

 

[Evadig]

On my part, I won’t be caught dead without closed toe shoes!

 

[Buckeye Amy]

I noticed that in the senior people, they are very well dressed, and polite. Looking at them so properly and nicely dress and so gentle in manner make me feel all is well, everything is in order.
Not many people wear stocking these days. We got all casual? Just a little over 100 years ago people were wearing layers & layers of clothes. Sometime when I watch a period movie and thought how on earth do they breath?

I wonder this myself when watching period movies, like "Gone With The Wind'. How on earth did they survive the heat wearing all those layers? No wonder women were fainting all the time! "Uncle Peter, my smelling salts!"

 

[Buckeye Amy]

I don't even own a dress or a skirt anymore! No pantyhose either, stopped wearing those when I was in my 20s. And forget about heels! Talk about torture!