Our outdoors can be very mucky and wet and very dry and dusty depending in the season. Polite northern folk are clean, and we like to keep our hosts houses clean too. Shoes on is considered quite rude.
During the summer we allow for short walk throughs with dry shoes on, but you ask first if its ok.
House slippers are common but not everyone wears them, up here it’s a “socks or slippers” debate.
Our outdoors can be very mucky and wet and very dry and dusty depending in the season. Polite northern folk are clean, and we like to keep our hosts houses clean too. Shoes on is considered quite rude. During the summer we allow for short walk throughs with dry shoes on, but you ask first if its ok. House slippers are common but not everyone wears them, up here it’s a “socks or slippers” debate.
This is exactly it. I’m mostly in the sock camp, and only wear slippers at my computer in the basement.
Bare feet is somehow almost as bad as shoes, the only caveat is if you show up in sandals