#3 Bad Sneakers
No, not the Steely Dan song (that would actually be a huge plus for me—-weird I know). I’m talking about actual foot gear. Now, that’s not to say that there hasn’t been a Romeo or two who used his Dunks to walk all over my lil heart, but let’s be honest George Michael was wrong some times the clothes DO make the man or at least his footware does.
Deal breaking footware for me
- Those damn bowling shoes. Now, if he’s wearing actual stolen bowling shoes that’s a different case. He might be a bad boy or a straight up skinny jeans wearin’ hipster. But if he shows up in his nicest duds sportin’ those “fake bowling shoes” it’s just a huge turn off. Wish I could tell you why, but I can’t. I’ve always hated these, plus that trend is from like 4 years ago. Which means he hasn’t bought nice shoes in four years. What? Has he not been dating? It just makes me wonder.
- Tevas. Okay maybe you met him white water rafting. That is the ONLY time those belong on another man’s feets in my book. They do not belong on his feetsies when he shows up to your office to take you to lunch.
- Anything that looks like it was once on a snake. Oh wait, are you dating Ludacris? No? Okay then he should not be wearing those shoes
- The biggest of all shoe sins to which breaking no mea culpa will redeem you from: socks with sandals. Even if all your bunkmates were doing it back at Camp FakeIndianTribeName you are not here to pick me up to go to the end of the summer dance. Take those bad boys off now!
****Now a word about Crocs. Crocs are iffy. I still haven’t figured out if they’re a deal breaker or not cause I have yet to date a man who wore or knew what they were. I mean if he was a chef I would consider it acceptable, but definitely not on a Friday night dinner and movie outing.
