Does wearing flip flops all the time make your feet ugly?

It seems to me that people who wear flip flops have crusty feet. Almost like the skin is peeling off. The always look red and raw. The toe nailes are not much better either. People like myself that often wears shoes and socks have soft smooth soles. Does wearing flips flops all tthe time make your feet ugly? It seems the lack of support is also bad for them.

Does wearing flip flops all the time make your feet ugly?
stop wearing them or you%26#039;ll end up walking like the chinks
Reply:no,they dont,makes them less dependent on shoes
Reply:I think feet of shoe wearers often look pretty bad... I always go barefoot and my feet don%26#039;t look anything like you described, they%26#039;re not soft but the toughness is a leathery toughness, no crusts, no redness, no cracks, nothing like that at all. In fact I%26#039;ve never seen a barefooter who had ugly feet, most of those things are caused by closed shoes and especially women%26#039;s shoes with pointed toes... I think what may be the problem is that the people who wear flipflops do so on hot days only while wearing ill-fitting fashion footwear the rest of the time. If you%26#039;re a man, you won%26#039;t have as much of a problem with that because your footwear is at least mostly foot-shaped; women%26#039;s footwear usually isn%26#039;t, forcing the foot to become shoe-shaped and that goes along with redness, corns, peeling skin, etc. But it%26#039;s those closed fashion-shoes that *make* the foot ugly; you just don%26#039;t *see* it until they take off those closed shoes and put their feet in the flipflops.





Lack of support is basically not bad for feet; a survey in Asia showed the barefoot rikshaw coolies who ran barefoot on pavement all day long had very, very few foot problems, far less in fact than shoe-wearing Western folks. But a flipflop would be worse than going barefoot; barefoot, I land on the ball of the foot rather than on the heel, so the entire foot can act as a shock absorber. This is the gliding walk you also may%26#039;ve seen on documentaries from barefoot people carrying jugs of water on their heads and such... while I%26#039;ve never practiced that, I do have a very smooth gait going barefoot. Any shoe that sports a stiff sole would be worse than barefooting for lack of support; it%26#039;d prevent the natural shock absorbing, while not providing anything in return.



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