What Alternatives Are There To Shoes?

Shoes are one of the essential items in every person's clothing collection. From the moment we can walk until the moment we die we wear hundreds of different types, styles, makes and colours of shoe to help us walk, run, climb, swim and generally stay warm or cool all year round.

But what if we don't want to wear shoes? What if you have a rare genetic condition which means that your feet are too big for any normal shoes? What if you hate all the commercial stuff that dictates what shoes we wear and want something different? Well here are some suggestions...

Bare Feet

It may seem just a little bit too obvious but why not just wear no shoes at all? As humans, we are certainly designed in a way that are bodies don't need to have bits of rubber attached to them for us to be able to walk around without any problems. Certainly with all the concrete around now they are certainly a good idea, but still not 100% necessary.

Some even suggest that we would walk a lot better and have a better physique and posture if we stopped wearing shoes. Having shoes in some way apparently makes us walk wrong. Our bodies don't expect so much foot support and without them there would be different stresses and strains on our legs and backs that we are better designed to deal with. Getting your first thorn in your foot may put you off this quickly though.

Skates

Wearing roller blades or skates to work may not seem very professional, but as an alternative to shoes they make a lot of sense. They feel like any kind of regular mens trainers on your feet, and once you get the hang of starting and stopping and not falling over, your skates will provide you with a lot faster way of getting around, while still making a statement about your personality. Indeed: why are there not more smart work shoes or Dr Martens boots with wheels in the bottom?

Foot Thongs

A little known trick of some contemporary dancers who are supposed to appear to dance bare foot on stage is that they are in fact wearing something called a 'foot thong'. In Australia they call what people in the UK call 'flip-flops', thongs, but these are not to be confused with 'foot thongs'. These are like a small sock with reinforced pads around the front part of the sole of your foot that from a distance are invisible. These allow the wearer all the freedom of being barefoot but with all the protection of a particularly well fitting sandal.

Sam Qam is a shoe wearer. He likes to wear Dr Martens Boots and any particularly fancy type of mens trainers over any other type of shoes.

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