Originally Posted by kaukau

Rubbah slippahs, or "flipflops", as you call them on the mainland, are the "de rigeur" footwear here in the Islands: everyone wears them; all the time; everywhere; they are our "shoes". Barefoot, however, is only at the beach or inside the hale (house). On long flights, (trans-Pac; not inter-island), everybody settles into their seats, kicks off their slippahs, and puts on a pair of socks for the flight. When using the lav., one puts the slippahs on over the socks, pressing the sock in between the big and neighbor toe to accomodate the slippahs. When deplaning, one removes the socks (or not, if it cold at the destination!), and puts on da slippahs. If you see someone walking around the airport or plane barefoot, everyone thinks they're a little kapakahi: "Put on your slippahs, bruddah; what, you tink you're at da beach?"

Originally Posted by tkey75

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