Trying on shoes

Ooh yuck. If I'm going out on purpose to look for shoes, I pop a clean pair of pop socks into my handbag. I wouldn't like to try on shoes that bare feet had tried on before me. Veruccas, athletes foot to mention two foot complaints that I wouldn't want to catch.

Yes, I certainly think socks should be worn when trying on new shoes. However, I feel sure online shoe purchases might leave a bit to be desired, as no one can check that.

Same here MiniMoon always have a pair with me if going to buy new shoes the thought would never enter my head to try on without pop socks.
Many years ago when shopping in a very posh shop in Monaco I enquired about a pair of shoes on display and the young man brought the shoes for me to try and proceeded to roll on a pair of brand new stockings (knee length) up my legs to get the right effect the shoes would have when on my feet,I bought the shoes although rather expensive and dined on the story at a good few dinner parties after.

Oh dear I tried on some sandals in M and S today and never gave it a thought about trying them on with bare feet. And to honest if I go back next week I will do the same!

When I go to shoe shops they provide pop socks, even at Boundary Mills.

Do any of you go to the baths btw ? Treading where others have trodden ?

DanniRae don’t worry it doesn’t enter my head either It’s only a moment I doubt if the shoe is teeming with awful infections in the 30 secs they are on my feet
I also walk barefoot on the prom in the summer where people walk and dogs and kids run
I walk around the edge of the swimming pool without socks on
Never caught anything so consequently never passed anything on

Can i ask, when you have brought the shoes, do you take them home and clean the insides before wearing?

Maybe I will from now on?
It’s just never occurred to me that people would do that.
Like eating in the street it seems not quite right.

My mother was always very strict about not trying on shoes with bare feet. I was very shocked several years ago when there was a programme about personal shoppers. A lady was shown into a private room in one of the big West End stores and a rail of clothes was brought in for her. That was fine, but then the personal shopper started bringing her boots to try on. She had bare feet and presumably previous customers would have had bare feet. I just felt that if I was thinking of spending several hundred pounds on a pair of boots I would rather not have had someone else's possibly dirty feet in them.

One shop I go to insists on giving you try-on nylon thingies.
In other shops I will try shoes with feet covered but not sandals. I suppose though that it is risky and we shouldn't.

I remember the shoe shop in our small town insisted you put on one of the pop socks provided if you had bare feet before trying on shoes.
I wonder how often they got washed !

I take a pair of pop socks along as well, I once witnessed a lady trying on a pair of shoes, when I glanced at her feet they were covered in sores with a couple of plasters clinging on for life - the shop assistant looked aghast - so did I.

I know JL have a box of disposable pop socks for trying on shoes, but I have seen people trying on the display shoes without using them. I would prefer they did, but am not overly bothered. Although in the situation witnessed by Oldandverygrey I would have been horrified.

I saw a thread on Facebook where someone was horrified that clothes bought online and then returned were then re-sold to other customers. I thought, well what do they think happens when they try stuff on in a shop? That the items are then thrown away? I think we need not to be too frantic about germs, our own or other people's. If we've got to the age of being grandparents, then we've done OK, bug-wise!

I always carry a pair of 'stocking socks' with me in my bag just in case I find a pair of shoes I would like to try on (most time I go shopping!). I hate it when people try shoes on with their bare feet - just plain rude.

Would never think of trying on shoes without a pop sock. The shops I visit for shoes give you these (new pair every time).

I work in retail and the shoes are tried on and stolen and have the cheek to leave their grotty shoes behind and same goes for clothes they leave their clothes on the rail for us to find...the worst thing is customers can even bring back knickers!!

When the Queen gets a pair of new shoes she has a lady with the same size feet wear them for a few days, so that they are nice and comfy when they eventually get to HM.

Here in Denmark all shoe shops have nylon socks for customers to borrow to try on shoes . These are throw out after use and I have seen the same system in Germany, Holland and France, so it surprises me to learn the British shops don't provide the same service.

I would never try shoes on without stockings on and I always wear bath sandals at the swimming baths both in the showers and when walking down to the bath.

It surprises me to learn that everyone doesn't do this.

Surely you wear underpants when trying on slacks or swimsuits?

Cabbie21,
is Boundary Mills a shop ?

If I buy new shoes I am always given a new pair of pop socks to wear. I assume the price is factored in to the shoe price. However have bought pretty shoes in charity shops and you don't get offered socks. I take my own, and if I buy the shoes I always run a Dettol cloth around them once I am home. Since reading about the Queen using what in effect are second hand shoes, I don't mind buying pretty second hand shoes, as these can be very expensive new.

Our local shoe shop provides little sock things.
I must admit to having tried sandals with toe posts on without socks as you can't get them on otherwise.
I wish I had a nice lady to break my shoes in for me!!

You will never find me without a pair of 'foot socks' in my handbag, (just in case I see shoes that I want - which is rare) as I too hate the thought of other people trying shoes on without socks or nylons of some sort.
I won't use swimming baths under any circumstances even though I am a reasonable swimmer as I know that some people only go there for a wash - after their swim. Disgusting.