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What color socks are allowed when and with what?

Didn't read all of this either, but I gotta chime in.

A good rule of thumb is match the darkness of your pants and shoes. And never wear socks and sandles.
 
I'm happy to announce that I've bought some new shoes to replace my sandals and socks at work. :D

I've also bought two pairs of inlay soles. One pair is with moss and is supposed to keep your feet dry, the other is with coal and is supposed to remove foot odor. Hopefully they work.
 
Cinch said:
I think this thread is the best yet in MacRumors :D

I think you can tell a lot about a person's political persuasion just by looking at his feet.

Teva sandal without sock = mainstream liberal
Teva sandal with sock = Berkley radical hippie who speaks to the clouds
J Crew sandal = moderate (middle of the road)
Acrocrombie&Fitch = mainstream conservative, definitely not the I'll pray for you type
dull brown leather shoe = rightwing gun carrying white guy
dark color socks with trainers (gym shoes) and a footbol jersey = a socialist white European staight male

Okay these are just silly stereotypes and the correlations are weak in some. I would be offended if you take my stereotypes seriously. However, I would bet a CIA operative would use these visual signal to gather info!


Cinch
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Birks! You left out birks! Best thing I ever put on my feet!

Hippy wanna be...
 
Guitarius said:
And never wear socks and sandles.
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Duff-Man says....I almost always wear socks when I wear sandals...for one, I have yet to find a pair of sandals that didn't rub the wrong way somewhere around my foot and leave a blister, and two, at work they don't really like the bare foot look too much.

However - when I do wear socks and sandals I always wear very very short anklet socks that are the same colour as the sandlas (always black in my case) so it is not especially noticable. But yeah - when I see people in brown or black sandals wearing white socks that go up halfway to their knees it does look somewhat dorky....oh yeah!
 
I have decided that both black and white socks have merit in different situations/occasions.

I'd go as far to say that you could get away with one black and one white warn with anything here in Japan - the fashion is so wacked people would think it was great.

I kid you not, J-fashion is the pits - here are a couple of examples (and check out the silver eyeliner and lipstick on the two dogs...err young ladies possing for the top picture...no, I was right the first time, dogs.
 
black socks with dress shoes + semi-formal to formal attire

white socks- when wearing sneakers. Either the kind that you can see or the kind you only see 1" of the actual sock.

Black socks + sneakers = eww.
 
My advice - what ever is on top in the sock drawer. If you get too work up about this then you've got bigger problems than the color of your socks. A quick search for advice on this vital topic came up with this sage advice from Dave Berry.

READY TO WEAR

BY DAVE BARRY
TODAY'S TOPIC IS: Fashion Tips for Men. This topic was suggested by a letter from John Cog of Norfolk, Va. Here's the entire text:

"How come when I'm standing in front of a full-length mirror with nothing on but socks, white socks look OK, but dark- colored socks make me look cheap and sleazy?"

This letter was passed along to me by my Research Department, Judi Smith, who attached a yellow stick-on note that says: "This is true." Judi did not say how she happens to know it's true; apparently -- and I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation -- she has seen John Cog of Norfolk, Va., wearing nothing but socks.

But the point is that dark socks, as a lone fashion accessory, create a poor impression. This is a known fact that has been verified in scientific experiments wherein fashion researchers put little white socks on one set of naked laboratory rats, and dark socks on another, then exposed both groups to a panel of leading business executives such as Bill Gates, who indicated that they would be "somewhat more likely" to hire from the white-sock group, should their personnel needs ever include a rat.

What this means, men, is that if you're dressing for an important job interview, church supper, meeting with my Research Department or other occasion where you could wind up wearing nothing but socks, they should be white.

Likewise, if you're going to be wearing just your underwear, you should always tuck your undershirt way down into your underpants. This is the "look" favored by the confident, sharp-dressing men found in the underwear section of the now- defunct Sears catalog, who are often depicted standing around in Rotary-Club-like groups, looking relaxed and smiling, as if to say: "Our undershirts are tucked way down into our underpants, and we could not feel better about it!..."
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Dave continues with more sage advice.
 
I only own white athletic socks. Some short, some mid-calf in height. Of course if I'm not wearing boots I'm wearing my Sambas (adidas indoor soccer shoe), and I don't own a pair of dress shoes (dress boots yes, dress shoes no).


Lethal
 
iAlan said:
... I kid you not, J-fashion is the pits - here are a couple of examples ...
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I think I love J-Fashion ... I saw an article on J-fashion in Air France's in-flight magazine. I love how they have no fear of going all the way and break with almost everything that main stream fashion dictates.
 
Cinch said:
I think this thread is the best yet in MacRumors :D

I think you can tell a lot about a person's political persuasion just by looking at his feet.

Teva sandal without sock = mainstream liberal
Teva sandal with sock = Berkley radical hippie who speaks to the clouds
J Crew sandal = moderate (middle of the road)
Acrocrombie&Fitch = mainstream conservative, definitely not the I'll pray for you type
dull brown leather shoe = rightwing gun carrying white guy
dark color socks with trainers (gym shoes) and a footbol jersey = a socialist white European staight male

Okay these are just silly stereotypes and the correlations are weak in some. I would be offended if you take my stereotypes seriously. However, I would bet a CIA operative would use these visual signal to gather info!


Cinch
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What about birkenstock sandals?
 
When I was a kid, wearing white socks outside of gym class was considered to a be sign of true and probably incurable nerdiness. Took me years to get over that little bit of fashion fascism.

I think it was Rodney Dangerfield who said that the world was a tuxedo and he was a pair of brown socks.
 
With nursing it was always white socks. Gor a waiver on the white shoes due to the difficulty finding them because of my size.

In the summer it's sandals. At home white socks. Going out usually back socks.
 
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