When I was young, a group of concerned parents, doctors, orthopaedists and shoe sellers voiced their concern about sneakers. A whole generation would ruin their feet if the young would be allowed to wear sneakers all the time! No, thirty years later, there are no ruined feet and civilisation hasn't collapsed.

Sneakers probably cannot be eaten if boiled, that is a drawback.

They are comfortable to walk on ;-)

If that is all... ;-)

I don't think scarecrows wear sneakers...

I don't wear straw with my sneakers :-)

Yesterday I was in a museum in Caen and it showed the clothes of the Normandians of the olden days. Everything we wear today looks scruffy compared to that. Fashions change, opinions change. I tend to favour the practical over what is "right" and "proper". If I have to consider all the opinions of other people, I couldn't leave the house.

The museum also pointed out that all that fancy local dress only came about after industrialisation made clothes cheaper. Before that people wore any old rag.

There has been a development that underwear (such as shirts and t-shirts) has become outerwear and that sportswear has become normalwear. Parts of military uniforms have become part of everyday fashion too. I haven't seen people going back to stone-age fashion yet.