Moonshiness's Profile

I have bought fabric from this shop and was definitely impressed with the service and delivery. Finn Style comes highly recommended!

I'm Canadian and in line with a lot of other comments from Canadians, where I live it is an assumed custom; Everyone entering another person's home takes their shoes off. Normally the only question I have relating to the shoes at the door question is "where do I put these?"

Similarly, if I am looking at a rental space in which someone is living, I take my shoes off at the door; if it is a vacant space shoes are fine.

The elderly and disabled in my life have always used either indoor shoes or slippers for their comfort at their own homes, and bring these along for visiting.

Also, at dinner parties or parties in general, there is the general assumption that boots, and shoes come off and there is generally a giant pile near the door for when guests leave.

I can think of only one exception - a Saint Patrick's Day party that happened the day of a snowstorm where the entry way and kitchen became so wet and muddy from removed boots that shoes were kept on unless one was goin further into the house.

In a notable experience at another party I attended, a foreign (American) guest was quite upset when she was politely asked to remove her shoes, however other guests weren't very sympatetic as it was winter and impractical; Her insistence felt quite rude, in fact.