This is what makes France such fun… it’s different wherever one goes… there is no absolute “norme”
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Thank goodness!
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Pool sliders with white socks (and even whiter legs) are a far more heinous sartorial urban crime…
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A Whiter Shade of Pool?
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Reminds me of a disgusting slider cocktail I was once served, poolside!
A whiter shade of peau…
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Are you peau-peauing my ideas? 
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I’m not sure I recognise the term ‘pool sliders’ as English. 
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me neither… sliding by a pool sounds a bit dangerous… 
I’d wear sandals of some sort I reckon… in my youth it would have possibly been flipflops
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I do recognise the style though and would not have known what to call them.
I do not know how people can wear shoes like that, or flipflops, and find them comfortable. The only way my feet can cope with them is to curl up my toes and hang on for dear life. 
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Used to see people wearing those when out on the boats. The flip flops would arrive but not the person, flip splosh 
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Called Tongs, pronounced thong and nothing to do with underwear. Or clic-clacs and nothing to do with folding beds. It’s all in the context.
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For many years, I used to wear Scholl sandals… flat/sculpted wooden base and adjustable leather strap across the front of the foot/toes. these were considered excellent/healthy footwear… as they made the foot flex/toes move etc etc with each step of the way… 
I found them very, very comfortable in those days.
(seeing what others have written, just goes to show how different we all are/can be )
Yes, they are quite revolting &, for me, totally impractical in the same way that you mention. I’ve never been able to ‘enjoy’ them, & I’m nowhere near being doddery.
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I had a pair of Hoka recovery slides in the States. Ugly but super comfortable.
https://www.hoka.com/fr/fr/recovery/ora-recovery-slide-3/1135061.html
Anyone tried going barefoot?
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Only in a recurring nightmare 
Yep, it’s making a come-back in our commune with a few of the younger set. One such lady told me she has a pair of lightweight shoes to put on when she goes into houses where folk are concerned her bare feet might dirty their floors 
Wouldn’t ever do that apart from my own home, so many nasties you can pick up from other people! At the crêche when I collect my granddaughter, there is a hippy-ish dad who comes in, dreadlocks and generally not that clean and he takes off his espadrilles and walks through the crêche barefoot where all the children have bare feet. Those of us with shoes have to put on shoe covers provided at the entrance before going in. My DIL who is germ phobic had a fit when she saw him and immediately cleaned her little girl’s feet outside with hand sanitiser until getting home. Another thing, bare feet leave marks on wooden floors and also tiles.
Around in our village (sadly) there’s a lot of dog poo and bird droppings… so barefoot outside here is not something I would do… or encourage …
Different of course in the appropriate location… as children, we all ran barefoot from our homes, down the road and onto the beach
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