In Japan socks are available that are like mittens with a place for the big toe like the place for the thumb in mittens. They are commonly worn with the getas there.

The Romans were here first so perhaps we're the weirdos. Ever look at it that way? Why is this even a story? Can you imaging Roman Legionaires not wearing socks and getting stones and stuff on their feet? Socks make perfect sense.

To add a historical note...Socks or stockings were a closely guarded military secret
in that time period...They allowed a soldier wearing them to march almost double the distance of one who was not. The reason was that the straps holding the sandals in place would begin to chafe the feet and legs of the soldier and could eventually produce blisters that would stop them from marching until they were healed.

The legionnaires did indeed wear what are now called "socks" two millennia ago. I should know for I was there. I was born 4,465 years ago in that part of the world now known as Mesopotamia. My original name was Ak'kherim. I was a soldier, a bully, and a fool. I fell in battle one day, pierced through the heart, but I did not die. Instantaneous tissue regeneration and enzymes that prevent cellular senescence had conferred virtual immortality upon me. At age 121, I conquered Sumeria as Sargon of Akkad and forged an empire that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Through the many centuries, I would pretend to age and move on before anyone realized my nature. Some twenty-three centuries later, I was living under the name of Octavius. At the age of 2,411, I was recalled from Illyricum to learn that my slain great uncle had bequeathed to me his full power and authority. As Octavianus, I defeated all those traitors, conspirators, and rival claimants to the Empire that was Rome. In 27 B.C., as the years are reckoned, I became revered in history as Augustus Caesar. Look upon any of my extant statues and you will see me as I still appear to this very day. I still possess some of my imperial regalia from those ages long ago, and I DID wear socks beneath my cothurni in colder regions and during the brumal months of the Roman calendar.

Who says this is wrong have you seen the crap they send down the runway in Paris and call that fashion com on!!!!!!

The fashion police are so right. I know I get heart palpitations when I see someone wearing socks with the sandals. I can't imagine how they survive even the thought of such a faux pas.