14-05-2025
Would you date a man wearing these sandals?
A row on Mumsnet isn't unusual, but this one was particularly heated. The subject? Shoes. Men's shoes, to be specific. On Saturday, one Mumsnet user tentatively asked whether she was being 'unreasonable' to feel second-hand embarrassment at her husband's new sandals. 'I don't know why but they make me cringe. I think sandals on men look so naff and 'old man',' she wrote, above a photo of said sandals. 'Am I being unreasonable, or do they look really naff and embarrassing?!'
I'm not embarrassed myself to admit that I spent a good half-hour scrolling through the hundreds of replies and howling. The response was mixed, I'd say, with various people saying she was being entirely reasonable, and that they'd consider divorce if their husband appeared
