The Flip-Flop Wars

[resqgeek]

From today's Washington Post, Ruth Marcus's column discusses the annual battle of the footwear in her household. Its an amusing article, but it also highlights the trend towards casual wear at any time, in any place. I'm sure there are similar battles looming in my future as my daughters approach their pre-teen, middle-school years. I just hope I can wisely choose which battles are worth fighting...

Comments

[elhamisabel.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I can so relate to the father? Actually I abhor flip-flops. Every summer for the past few years I wish that that was it, thatthe fashion for these awful things has stopped. I mean apart from being uncomfortable and unhealthy for your feet, the sound they make is just awful! Bah! It's shoes for the bathroom or beach. Not an everyday shoe. And the sooner it gets out of fashion again, the better.

:D

[rangermom.livejournal.com]

hee hee hee, you have no IDEA of battles to come... Take it from a mother of an 18 year old boy and 16 year old girl... Choose your battles, and choose wisely!

Thanks,
Mom

[wubbarub.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the fashion is in other parts of the country, but the girls here have taken to wearing flip-flops to their semi-formal dances (Homecoming and Winter Weekend). I am lucky, for I have taught my daughter that the correct pair of shoes can make or break an entire outfit. (It also helps that I own 9 pairs of shoes, not counting my flip-flops or sandals.)

I was appalled this past winter to see the girls in their fancy dresses and FLIP-FLOPS.

I am one that hopes this trend ends soon.

And, I agree with rangermom, choose your battles wisely!

[resqgeek]

As Ms. Marcus noted in her column, feet are, perhaps, not the critical theater in the battle over teen clothing. I might want to reserve my big guns for battles a little higher up, eh?