My girlfriend finally decided to give bare feet a try last week. We were getting ready to leave to go to the shopping centre and as she was looking around for her shoes I told her that bare feet would look much better on her than shoes given she was wearing skimpy cut-off denim shorts and a light top. My girl wasn't completely convinced but agreed to give it a try and so we drove to the shopping mall barefoot. When we got there she nervously tip-toed through the car park, watching where she was walking, until we got into the main crowded part of the shopping centre. We walked around shoeless, my girlfriend kept saying she had never gone barefoot in public before and felt a bit embarassed and wondered what people would think of her having no shoes on her feet in a crowded shopping mall. I told her that her bare feet looked great, especially since she had nail polish on her toes and was wearing an anklet and toe-ring. We went to lots of different shops and on the way back to the car my girlfriend bent her leg and looked at her dirty bare sole. "My feet are filthy!" she giggled and said she would wash them as soon as she got home. I told my girl that her feet looked fantastic with dirty soles and she stayed barefoot for the rest of the day. Whether she will go barefoot to the shopping centre again I don't know but it was great to see her go shoeless in public for the first time.
Congrats on helping her take the first step (pun intended)! I hope that with your positive encouragement and example she'll become a full-time barefooter.
That's great to hear, a girl wearing jean shorts and a small top always looks better in her barefeet. Did the two of you get any negative looks or comments? I'll bet it was easier for her to get away with going barefoot in public due to the fact that most folks probably figured her shoes were bothering her and decided to take them off.
My shoeless girlfriend and I got lots of sideways glances from other shoppers in the shopping centre and at one point I heard someone say "Look, they're in bare feet!" but apart from that it was okay. My girl likes going barefoot at home and to the beach but this was her first time not wearing her shoes in a public place where everyone else had shoes on. She looked great in her bare feet and skimpy attire and she enjoyed the feel of the shopping centre floor under her soles but said she was worried about other shoppers looking at the grubby soles of her feet. On the way back to the car my girlfriend stepped in grease in the car park which stuck to her bare soles and her toes and made them even more black and filthy. I told my girl not to worry about the dirt and that her unclean soles looked nice all dirty and grimy. My girlfriend loves having her feet tickled and so I said that if she stays barefoot all the time I can easily tickle her dirty soles whenever she likes. She put her grubby bare feet up on the coffee table to relax when we got home and I told her that her soles look really nice like that and she should go barefoot more often. My girl loves her shoes but said she might try it again.
Congratulations on sharing your barefootin' with your girlfriend! That's a positive first step, and hopefully she'll come around, if not to being a full-timer, then at least to being able to appreciate why you love it so much, and to share in it with you from time to time. I mean let's face it, many women love shoes too much just from a fashion perspective, to give them up completely. ;-)
