Is it rude to ask people to take off their shoes when entering your apartment? Carol Yepes/whitebalance.oatt Who’s the rude one when a request to leave your shoes at the door is made: The host who ...

At-home holiday parties are on many people's calendars right now, and germ-conscious hosts are faced with a dilemma: Should I require my guests to take off their shoes at the door, especially if the ...

Inquiring minds on social media want to know if homeowners and renters enforce a shoes-off policy for guests as people debate how hygienic the household rule really is, and whether it can create ...

In a large number of countries around the world, it’s commonplace to remove shoes when inside the house and it can even be considered rude to enter someone’s home with your shoes on. Of course, in the ...

A study has found that it’s safer and cleaner to take your shoes off at the door before entering your home. Study authors ...

Maybe you kick off your shoes at home because you don’t want to track dirt across clean carpets or floors, or maybe it’s just a relief to shed them. But if you regularly take them off because you’re ...

I heard a voice saying, "Hey take off your shoes," a nurse said about her decision to take off a brand new pair of shoes she had just bought to give them to a patient who needed a new pair. I heard a ...

George Lomonossoff, a professor of virology, doesn’t believe that wearing shoes indoors poses serious health risks - John Lawrence When Gwen, a 35-year-old lawyer from London, first met her fiancé, ...

A new era is born.

When it comes to the great shoes on/shoes off debate, "Ask Amy" advice columnist Amy Dickinson knows where she stands: Shoes on. Dickinson, who grew up on a dairy farm, lives in the Finger Lakes ...

Inquiring minds on social media want to know if homeowners and renters enforce a shoes-off policy for guests as people debate how hygienic the household rule really is, and whether it can create ...