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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This “no shoes” trend seems weird to me. Why not require someone to change into a robe when entering your home? After all, clothes carry germs too and people will be sitting on your furniture?

Most US- born Americans I know don’t do the “no shoes” thing.[/quote]

Another person raised white middle-class, and my parents were definitely shoes-indoors people, assuming the shoes were dry. When my friends and I went to one another houses, [b]we'd ask the parents if we could take our shoes off, because it was seen as a sign of informality. [/b]

My parents were raised in households with help, so maybe that's why they grew up not worrying about how to minimize housework (my mom cleaned our house herself -- I guess my parents were downwardly mobile?). But our friends are shoes-on people (or at least not mandatory shoes off), so I think it's probably more age-related (we were all born in the 60s or early 70s)[/quote]

Yes!

Half Japanese here and grew up in the midwest.

We were shoeless at home, but never had guests remove their shoes.  We did not go barefoot or shoeless in other people's houses, unless we were close to them or if they had new or white carpet.

It had to do with formality. Shoes off/bare feet = informal or familial.  Shoes on was respectful and more formal, what you did as a guest.

I wonder if this all harkens back to the days when no shoes meant you were a destitute hick, running around barefoot.  If you had shoes to wear it separated you from the poor people, so those with shoes, especially working or middle class made sure to keep them on to separate themselves from the destitute.[/quote]

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