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Birkenstocks with socks is okay: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/shoes/200309/birkenstocks

Birkenstocks are never OK.

And fashion snobbery is?

Birkenstocks are a kind of footwear. Lots of people like them. What's the point of getting affronted by this? Does it make the world anything other than worse?

Clothing communicates information. Although this information is highly contextual, it is still information.

Understanding that people judge you by how you dress isn't snobbery, it's accepting reality.

I use my footwear as a test. If you don't like me simply because I'm wearing comfortable sandals, then I wouldn't have liked you either and I've saved us both a spot of trouble.

He didn't say he didn't like him. He just doesn't like a facet of his fashion. I don't like Crocs or Uggs. I don't think people look good while wearing them. But that doesn't mean I don't like them.

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