Originally Posted by
bcphitau
I don't mean to judge you, but...
Feet do generally carry a hundred or hundreds of pounds of pressure and, as such, are a odor-producing part of our bodies.
Wouldn't you want to show decency and respect to your fellow travellers by at least offering a sock and shoe's worth of a protective barrier between your odors and their noses?
You should be able to run around barefoot all you want in your own home but the aircraft isn't your own to do that.
I feel the same way about people who travel in tank tops and expose the rest of us to their armpits, by the way.
I dunno about that. Your foot smells not from the weight put upon them, but from the bacteria that grows in the sweat your foot emits because you bind them up tight in the little incubators you call shoes and socks. I'll bet the op's feet smell less like a gym than yours do on any given day.
That's not to say bare feet don't collect odors of their own
