How do I stop my shoes from stinking when I don't wear socks?

Wear socks. And foot spray.

shoe mints

No socks? What kind of animal are you, OP?

OP is low-born.

Vinegar

Wash your feet, Rose.

Wear socks you FUCKING animal.

The whole sock-less thing, especially with leather dress shoes, is in the same category as neck tattoos and lip piercings. There's simply no redeeming yourself once you've done it. Refined people see you and immediately know everything they need to know about you.

No socks - gross

Take care of your feet….

Dr. Tichenor's

Wear socks, you prissy jackass.

Boot Bananas

These fucking clowns

A lot of women wear shoes without socks, flats especially. Thankfully, the days of panty hose are over. Foot spray powder. Not every day necessarily.

You gotta wash your feet, OP, at least once a week. I do it every other day, every day in summer when I go sockless or wear sandals. Use a pumice stone to remove dead skin. I also put Lamictal every few weeks because I'm prone to athlete's feet.

The problem OP is that your feet are sweating, and there are no socks to absorb it, so it gets into the leather/cloth/footbed. You need to disinfect your shoes probably 1x week, and wash your feet before you put on your shoes.

Stop swallowing.

Baking soda.

Wear the little socks that you would wear in a sneaker without socks. The little half socks that cover your sole but aren't visible.

Amputation.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you really unaware that dress shoes by their intended design are hosery-adjacent-if-not-dependent? I once met some mean old custom shoe makers in Italy who would laugh at you, in their native tongue, for asking such a silly question.

That said....

Callus shavers are always your friend. A good ick removal of dead skin never hurts and has actually benefited me on more than one occasion, when faced with a persistent aroma unpleasant to the olfactory

Try these!

Disgusting

Also, Lume, or it's guy version, Mando.

Christ Almighty! Why is this even being discussed?!!!

Well, r26...

I used to spray mine with Lysol.

R15 No, we wear socks that end below the ankle. Like ballerina slippers. No socks is gross and awfully uncomfortable.

Get some sleazy foot fetishist to lick them clean. If they’re nice you can charge him, too!

If you must show off your comely bare ankles, get some no show socks. Wearing shoes without socks will give you blisters.

You can get shoe inserts that are charcoal-based. As others have said wash your feet, and swipe em with your deodorant. After you wear them, take a Clorox wipe and wipe out the inside of your shoe to kill the bacteria.

OP, R32 is right about using a Clorox wipe on the inside of your shoes. I do that every day, and it really keeps shoe and foot stink away. It won't damage your shoes, I promise, but if it does, please don't murder me. Also scrub your feet each day with antibacterial soap and a nail brush. You need to go nuclear on foot stink. And as others here are saying, FFS, wear socks!

R29 - After decades as a female who's kept female company who aren't Orgo lesbians involved in Michfest types of movements, I assure you, you could not be more wrong.

[quote]I also put Lamictal every few weeks because I'm prone to athlete's feet.

Did you mean 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐥, R16?

Diabetes, athlete's foot -- Let’s call the whole thing off!

There needs to be a musical 🎶 🎼 🎶 about this!

Wear socks, OP - apart from the hygiene benefit you'll no longer look like a tragic fashion victim.

Who can wear dress shoes with no socks? Doesn't cut your skin (ankles, back of heel).>

If you refuse to wear socks, you have to obey a different set of rules for shoes.

1. You don’t wear the same pair more than once a week. They need to air out. It’s also an excuse to purchase multiple styles in the same color.

2. You’ve purchased, cut to size, and installed gel insoles in your shoes. This creates a barrier between your filthy feets and the leather insole.

3. You use wood shoe trees. Balenciaga and Gucci use thick enough leather to where you wait to use trees six months in. The rest need support and guidance while drying out.

I specificly buy Peds with the pompoms on the back.

I agree and have done all of R39’s instructions.

I have never understood how wearing no socks was mistaken for a sign of an "upper class" dress code.

I blame asshole "preppie" bloggers.

I have always worn socks, and the existence of sock garters as a thing through the pre-WWII years should give a hint as to the fact that the only acceptable shoe to be worn sockless is the sandal and perhaps the boat shoe.

R42 - no - it's that people are seeing the ankles and assuming men aren't wearing socks. They are.

Everyone is wearing these.

Wear the no-show socks OP!! Nobody is walking around in men's dress shoes without socks on.

Wear socks.

Stuff your shoes with newspaper.

This works pretty well

Do some people really only wash their feet once a week? Gross.

Spray inside of shoes with rubbing alcohol in between uses

Bar Keeper’s Friend

Shoe inserts that are permeated with charcoal will do the trick.

It's called a Low Cut or No Show sock OP. No one really wears dress shoes without socks. I live in Italy and it looks like men never wears socks here. But Italian men are super fastidious about their feet, and I have never seen one actually barefoot in their dress shoes. Maybe a vacation espadrille, but that is it. With dress shoes they wear something like the Uniqlo Low Cut socks.

Drink champagne out of your shoes regularly.

Fucking wear socks.

Women get away with no socks all the time.

R52 - that's usually with open-toe shoes that breathe. Or if it's for a few hours for an event.

I don't believe women are going around all day with closed shoes with no socks on. Same thing would happen.

In the '80s thanks to Don Johnson on Miami Vice, it was very trendy to wear boat shoes without socks.

No show socks are great! Don't cheap out, get the ones with a good grip

Just remember, if in the company of a gentleman caller, to remove No Show socks in one movement with the corresponding shoe.

There is no greater passion killer than a hot guy standing there in his teeny tiny lady socks.

I remove my shorty socks by standing on a rug and scrubbing each foot backward. It just peels the socks off so nicely.

[quote]There is no greater passion killer than a hot guy standing there in his teeny tiny lady socks.

I can imagine dirty feet that smell like meat market dumpsters would be worse.

Throw those fuckers in the trash!

[quote]Thankfully, the days of panty hose are over.

Bare legs are not the flex you think. Pantyhose hid cellulite, varicose veins and an assortment of visual ills. Like flip flops, moisturize as well. Callused kneecaps are such a turn off.

I knew a woman who used to wear flats and no support who took them off one day to do her work and the whole room smelled like corn chips.

Gasoline and a match

Women walk around in panty hose and closed shoes and that’s almost like nothing. Those shoes probably stink to high heaven.

You can make your own no-see-um socks with a pair of scissors.

Yeah, as long as you've got a nice serger. You cut off the top 3/4 of a sock the thing will unravel like mad unless you seal the raw edge.

[QUOTE]Bare legs are not the flex you think. Pantyhose hid cellulite, varicose veins and an assortment of visual ills.

Yeah, so many women nowadays are wearing thigh bearing skirts and hot pants to the office like Beyonce's backup dancers .

Have you ever been trapped in a pair of panty hose, r60? And WTF is a gay man doing checking out women's legs?

You can put your shoes in the freezer when not wearing them.

True story. My Alzheimer's mother couldn't find her favorite, comfy pair of shoes. Nowhere to be found until dinner time when I opened the fridge.

Massage some Pine-Sol into your feets.

I have found that shoes made of non-natural materials can stink after a while. I had a pair of fake Topsiders once that I had to throw away after about six weeks because they smelled so bad.

Baby powder cornstarch sprinkled in your shoes

[quote]And WTF is a gay man doing checking out women's legs?

A gay man interested in women's fashions! OMG! Have you alerted the media as to this earth shattering development?

A woman's imperfect legs isn't "fashion.".

Op is a low caliber person

And you’ll feel them rolling over your heel and scrunching up in the toe of your shoe all day r63.

[quote]Women walk around in panty hose and closed shoes and that’s almost like nothing. Those shoes probably stink to high heaven

Like boiled hotdogs.

Wow this thread has been very enligthening to say the least. I didn't realize I was in such the minority, as I always wear pantyhose, I think they're a miracle worker! I never need to wear underwear and my legs always look like they've got a deep tropical tan even when the rest of me is white as a ghost. I remember a guy in the office once asked me if I went to the beach with a blanket over my head and naked from the waste down! LOL!!!

dare I say it? poo shoes.

[quote]I never need to wear underwear and my legs always look like they've got a deep tropical tan

So no matter what color you buy, they all end up the same ombré color in the crotch Darlanne?

Use a lighter to burn the ends or brush with clear nail polish.

Get that aerosol disinfectant they use down at the bowling alley.