Normally I would not wear socks with sandals. I never wear socks with Birkenstocks, can't imagine wearing even aqua-socks or divers booties with my all-terrain sandals even when I'm rafting, but I do sometimes wear hose and flashes with these "modern gillies". The Portland Highland Games were last weekend and I did, once again, wear my Keens with hose and flashes. Some people at the games can be very opinionated about other people's wardrobe. I was sitting near such a "Lady". She was critiquing everyone in sight and explanning their failure to her friend. I don't think she realized that I could hear her because she found several aspects of my apparel to be substandard but her only complaint about the Keens was that the "laces" were supposed to wrap around my ankles. Anecdotal evidence to be sure, but it makes me think that many people won't know that I'm not wearing "traditional" footwear. I guess we already knew that though, didn't we?

Jamie