Kathy said around mid-morning on October 17, 2007
I have a very serious situation going on here at home that needs immediate intervention. It’s a crime, being committed almost daily in my household that worries me more for the future of my children than of myself.
My husband is a serial Mandal wearer. He doesn’t do this when we’re in Florida. But as soon as we get back to Georgia… the Mandals come back with a vengeance. He claims it’s for comfort. I claim it’s because he doesn’t realize just how ridiculously geriatric this look is. I plead with him, I make fun of him tirelessly and yet… the Mandals re-appear each morning. I tried buying him neutral colored socks, tried hiding the sandals… they always seem to come back. Bright white ankle socks and those sandals. He goes to the store in them… he cuts the grass in them.... they are ever present.
I threatened to take a photo of them and post it on the Internet in hopes that it would induce an embarrassment that would aid in their banishment from his wardrobe. He just laughed in the face of my blog and posed for the photo.... chuckling a “Go ahead” just to fuel my hatred of the Mandals. I am at my wit’s end. I am married to a man… who wears Mandals. I need to just accept my fate.
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
Tell him he looks like a lit-tle guuuurrrrrrrl. They look like mary-janes, yo.
from your moms.
Oh no, he doesn’t. If my husband did that, I’m pretty sure that would be grounds for divorce. He does wear Mandals, but NEVER with socks.
from your moms.
I’m not getting something.
You wear sandals (or Mandals, whatever) so that your feet are partially exposes to the air. Sort of a happy medium between wearing shoes and wearing nothing.
Then, he negates that by putting socks between his feet and the air? Doesn’t that defeat the advantage (s|M)andals have over shoes? Wouldn’t tennis shows (with their greater support, therefore greater comfort) be preferrable?
Don’t get me wrong, those look like nice, comfy sandals. I’d wear ‘em, I bet. But the sock thing? I don’t get it.
from your moms.
Muah ah ah! Those are hilarious.
Germ put a pair of flip flops on over socks once, and I tackled him and pulled the socks off. Apparently it is a cool thing to do in Seattle.
from Virginia Beach, VA
Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
OH GOD NO! I used to get so upset when my husband would wear the velcro double-strap reef sandals over flip flops....add socks to the mix and I would have had to hang myself -OR- pull a Kathy Bates like in the movie Misery and crippled his ass by breaking both his feet off… no feet = no mandals!
from Orlando, FL
Cocktail: Cabernet Sauvignon; gallons of it.
Actually, I think they look awesomely cool, in a dork sort of way. But of course, I’m a dork. Go figure.
from Portland, OR
Does he wear a fanny pack with them?
Cause then you have real problems.
from your moms.
They say hobbit chic to me.
from Seattle
I have no problem with mandals, but the FREAKIN’ SOCKS. OH GOD.
I actually like Keen sandals, which those are. But please make him not wear socks with them.
Also: I don’t know what crack Liv is smoking, because I haven’t seen socks/flip flops here in Seattle. That sounds alarming, and uncomfortable.
from Mouseville™
That should be on a billboard at the state line announcing “Welcome to Florida - snowbird season has commenced”.
from Clive Owen's Bedroom
Cocktail: Mojito
"Why, God why?” (shakes fist at the heavens)
The thing that gets me is they know damn good and well they wouldn’t have worn that shit back when they were dating us. It’s like once they get married, any sense of style is thrown out the bloody window. My husband wears white socks with loafers. WTF, right? I think, you should throw on a pair of white knee-socks and some heels the next time the two of you go somewhere (and post it on Flickr, of course). Although, if he’s anything like my husband, he’d probably think it was sexy.
from your moms.
ginadapooh, lay off the fanny packs, okay. *hides fanny pack self-consciously*
from Indy
I htink Joelle needs to come out (well east) to Georgia and you guys should stage an intervention! And drink a lot.
from Houston
Cocktail: Mango Mojito
You let Husb know that I appreciate his sock/mandal combo. It earns 100 points for the Unfortunate Fashion game.
from your moms.
I love me some unfortunate fashion, but seriously… even *I* wouldn’t wear white socks with sandals. I mean, what next, going to Denny’s for dinner at 4pm for the early bird special?
from your moms.
The sandals are great - sandals with socks - OH NO! that is just wrong! But at least he doesn’t wear socks that go clear up past his ankle - you can’t imagine how many times I see that crazyness here in the midwest?! It is just awful!
from your moms.
EEK!
from Southwest snowbird country
I too, don’t mind the Mandals, but NOT WITH SOCKS! EVER! Sandals are not meant to be worn with socks, and I don’t care what gender you are, what part of the country you are from, or how old you are. Just, no. Somehow, this insanity must stop.
from KY
Mandals with socks...OH MY! you have to secretly dispose of them when he isn’t wearing them. I mean...you have to do this. Though I will admit that my husband has an eerie penchant for old man footwear. He can’t get enough of those damn loafers with the tassles on them. I mean..the most old man loafers you can pick out. He is just 26. I’m sure when he’s age appropriate for tassled loafers (say 75) he will be wearing Air Jordans or something.