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After the success of boots in the “What Do Your Designer Shoes Say About You?” saga, I was very interested to hear what sandals and flip-flops communicate about a woman’s personality. Although I don’t wear open sandals very often, I like them on other people and was intrigued to discover whether this was the case for my panel of guys.

The word the guys associated most with sandals and flip-flops was “casual”. They decided that they suggest easy-going and fun women who don’t mind getting their feet dirty. As obvious as the latter point was, the former was quite interesting and I’d like to add that open sandals probably take a little bit of confidence to wear, when worn in general rather than just on the beach or in the park. When I put this point to the guys, they suggested that maybe the more revealing the sandal, the more confident the person – in a similar way to revealing clothing.

Be be fair to the guys, their point about women not minding “getting their feet dirty” clearly meant more than the very obvious. Sandals suggest that somebody isn’t hung-up about cleanliness to an obsessive degree – which is something to bear in mind I suppose!

The panel was split over gladiator sandals; half liked them and half thought they were “just another fad”. Nobody seemed to have a problem with flip-flops, though the panel was unified in their dislike of women (and men) that continue to wear flip-flops in winter months; saying that they were probably over-confident to the point of arrogance. “Everybody knows their feet are freezing [cold] and wet” exclaimed one particularly enraged panelist; “…they’re just showing off to try to prove some ridiculous point, but nobody knows what it is!” I suggested that perhaps these people think blue feet are sexy, but the panel weren’t having any of it so we called it a day there!

Next time: what do trainers say about a woman?