BYOHS: Bring Your Own House Shoes

It's one thing if you get to a party and get loose and take your shoes off. But not to be able to make an entrance in your party shoes that match your dress and your handbag, is deflating. Case in point- last night I am Elaine's date at a business holiday party. I threw on a dress, agonized over which shoes worked best with that dress and jazzed it up with some fishnets! We get to the party, and on the front door was a BIG sign: "please remove shoes." Sure enough, there on the porch were all types of dress shoes in a pile: mules, velvet holiday shoes with charms, loafers, Oxfords, pumps, ankle boots and wing tips. I get it that we walk in and on all sorts of disgusting stuff that you shouldn't want in your house and that is cleaner, safer and smarter to leave the disease and goo outside. However, had I known that this was a barefoot party, I would have brought slippers or I would have gotten a pedicure. There I was in my fishnets, with my un-manicured toes in my party dress looking like Daisy Duke at prom. What I know is that people are funny about their feet. Some people never go barefooted. They get home, slide out of shoes and into slippers or socks. So to ask people in suits and dresses to go barefoot on a cold tile floor and not offer socks, slippers or a warm foot bath is a little, well, wrong.