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Emma said According to the barefooters site, this kind of thing isn't legal in the States:...
Being as I am in the US now I get interesting looks when I fire up the chainsaw wearing jandals. I have to explain (slowly and carefully) the concept of Samoan safety shoes... I wear jandals most of the year, when asked why I am not wearing shoes I just politely point out that there is no snow on the ground. Either the logic of this is very evident, or the concept blows any chance of them coping as that generally ends that line of questioning.
Mind you, when I was spending time at Welling Teachers College in Karori I would get told off by some of the women in the hostel I was in when I showed up on a thickly frosty morning in my normal jeans, bush shirt and jandals. They would point out to me that it was far too cold to be barefoot, and I would politely point out that I wasn't barefoot - I was wearing jandals. This was never a satisfactory answer.
I am not the worlds smallest person, and I have feet that are in proportion to my size - however they do rather like the shoes with width in the multiple 'e' category. Preferably eeee or eeeee. Which I have found I can get reliably from zappos :-)
I work at a University right now and although the 'dress code' appears to be fine with shorts, t-shirt and jandals I wear business casual. It's really nice to get home and toss off the work duds and get comfortable, I am appreciating the contrast.