Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "I Wear a Corset Daily (And Have for 3+ Years)" video.

ME TODAY Literally hurt my back whilst washing my hands... V.Birchwood I sew for 12 hours with no back pain.
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HAHAHA I'm British, now living in Bulgaria - I HAVE NO IDEA why we British insist on wearing outdoor shoes in the house, making the house dirty and wearing out the flooring... I stopped the moment I got to Bulgaria and everyone was taking off their shoes at the door; it had just NEVER occurred to me before. ALSO - outside clothes. Bulgarians get changed to go out the door. They dont slob around the house in nice clothes crumpling them and wearing them out OR go out in slobby clothes. I FULLY recommend this from a mental health perspective...! >>> I work with victims of abuse and depression and its really GOOD to have that set of nice clean clothes that you KNOW you look nice in when you go out - even if its just to the shop or the supermarket. Its a great habit to get into, and your clothes last much longer, need much less washing.
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@VBirchwood - Well I actually live in one of the Soviet era apartment blocks; not I have no idea what they are like in Russia, but in Bulgaria, they are built SO WELL. I LOVE living in it, but the corridor is a little bit dirty - so I take my shoes off just inside the door - put my "pantoffi" пантофи i.e. slippers on and then put the shoes outside the door.
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@emilysmith2784 - Maybe there is regionality to it..??? I come from the working class region of the North and you would definitely take working boots off, but almost no one took shes off. My guess is that the perception would historically be that by comparison - shoes were clean compared to boots worn down a mine or in an iron foundry...?? This is my guess...???
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@emilysmith2784 "Just asked my office" that was my exact point. If you work in an office your shoes will seem dirty. If you work down a mine or in an iron foundry then you are likely to see shoes as clean by comparison. But I think the "social circle's" point is a red herring as one half of my family are very wealthy farmers who own 22,000 acres of the vale of York and the other are penniless ex-miners and neither take their shoes off in the house. The only thing that unites these two halves of the family except manage is they work in dirty environments in their working day...
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@emilysmith2784 - AH sorry - I was taking a more generational view and trying to work out why some families / groups of people do this and others don't. I have actually Googled this to find an answer and I cant. Apparently in the Netherlands, they don't take their shoes off; in Australia, the kids don't wear shoes in school. And I can remember that up until my high school at 13 WE did not wear shoes in school.
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@katherinemorelle7115 - I think this is fascinating. I would LOVE to get to the bottom of why in some places its a horrific NO NO and in others its entirely normal. Certainly here in Bulgaria the norm is shoes off BEFORE you step foot in the house. In my apartment block everyone has a chair outside the door to sit on and take shoes off. Among the group of people, I knew in the UK they never took their shoes off. But they would not poot outdoor shed ON on a morning if they were not going out. It would be slippers...
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