Despite this being one of the warmest and sunniest summers for ages the barefoot girl count remains stuck on a big fat zero, here in London at least. Has anyone else based in the UK seen anything of note or has it just been a perversely bad summer for barefoot girls?

However, here's something I found which, to me at least, represents an ideal: a number of middle aged women, well dressed, outdoors and one of whom is barefoot. Fantastic

https://www.flickr.com/photos/35411542@N08/...157619967319582

Mike123

Where I live instead is the opposite : one of the baddest summer ever seen ,always rain and cold.

So find someone barefeet is absolutely impossible,but from this point also the other year was about impossible

Have had one sighting this year. A young girl was walking barefoot in a busy high street with her mother. I followed them into Primark where she took her shoes and socks out of her bag and put them back on. I'm not sure why she decided to go barefoot but it was nice to see.

Other than that it has been pretty disappointing but there is still time yet!

Nearly the same here in my hometown in Switzerland.
We had very nice spiring weather, and around 30°C in early June, but barefoot girls were rare, despite the temperatures. I'm glad that we have an yearly african-style festival in the middle of the town, which attracts lots of alternative and hippie girls, so the sighting of a dozen barefooted women in an hour insn't uncommon. Sometimes I can spot 1-2 girls on flea markets.
Is it possible that some kind of comfortable shoes are "en vogue", so that women don't need/want to take of their shoes to release their tortured feet?

Wish the other ladies followed her example!

Have seen loads of barefoot girls so far this year, but unfortunately quite a lot of them where underage. The rest were between about 18-26 years of age. Haven't seen any women over 30-year-old this year, except for maybe 2-3 exceptions (carrying their shoes). Seems to be quite a rare thing to find true barefooters older than 30 years, and over 40 seems to be almost impossible.

Weather here has been amazing. The first three weeks of June were bad, but since then it has been hot and sunny almost every day, and as good as zero rain. Amazing!

-Hal-

This is my theory. With the explosion of nail salons offering pedicures, women are careful about going barefoot outdoors. They don't want to mess up their "beautiful" pedicures. Personally I find pedis disgusting (I prefer women with natural feet - no pedicures, no polish, no jewelry, no tattoos). But the amount of money and time they spend in nail salons must account for their lack of barefooting in public. At least in America, where EVERY strip mall, large and small, has at least one nail salon (some of them have two).

In the '80s and '90s it was not like this. Mid '80s in particular - girls went barefoot all the time on college campuses and into retail stores in the States.

It is really sad that there are so few, if any, barefooters around. I met two ex-girlfriends who were also barefoot (with filthy feet) on the street in Greenwich Village (NYC). It was great to hang out with someone who was also comfortable going barefoot in and around the city. Today if anyone is barefoot in the city it is because they slipped off their shoes while sitting on the grass in the park.
I'm not so sure about the pedicure thing, I believe it is more a matter of social acceptance and "fitting in".

Not been too bad a year this year (and 2013 was a distinct improvement too), but I am working in a more bohemian area.