No, it isn't. Getting them dirty, to some extent anyway, is just part of what happens. It goes with the territory, but is not the whole point at all, IMO. That's the way I feel about it. If they get dirty, they get dirty, and I'm not going to do anything special to avoid that. But their getting dirty, or not, has nothing to do with why I go barefoot. And no, I almost never look at the bottoms of my feet. I don't really care what color they are. About the only time I do look is when I'm scrubbing them in the shower at the end of the day.
My old lady always makes fun of me when I have dirty feet and calls me a redneck it makes me sad because I'm not
I'm a seasonal barefooter. I usually hit my soles with henna for the summer and I often check up on them.
I took off my shoes before mowing the lawn. Not because I wanted green feet but to feel the grass under my feet. And I mowed the lawn because the grass was too long.
I've been mowing the lawn since I was 6 years old...the only way I can stand to do it is to go barefoot and enjoy my green feet afterwords.:sunny:
Last time I did that the chlorophyll stains took seemingly forever to come out. Was nice though. I was barefoot in the University Parks this morning, it's grass with dusty dirt/gravel paths, so my feet ended up very dusty, but I only really noticed when I was putting on my sandals on my way out so I could cycle back to college.
My wife hates my feet being dirty, so she flipped her lid when I cut the grass barefoot on Sunday - result was same as yours..