Is it acceptable to wear visible socks with shorts and trainers?

[iona]

I don't have any trainer socks or flipflops so I've been folding my socks down to somewhere in between trainer sock & normal ankle sock length (tbf I fold the tops over anyway bc sensory shit) -

White sports socks seem to be a thing atm?

 

[Saul Goodman]

I think I must have a more interesting life than you staying home and carping at people over trivial matters

Your lack of self-awareness knows no bounds

 

[Poot]

With a bit of luck, now that we can ask people on the internet for advice, we can all dress exactly the same. And then we can poke fun at the non-conformists.

Don't prove me right OU. Dress like an individual. Never question.

 

[campanula]

Wear what the fuck you like/feels comfortable. despite the best efforts of the fashion police, we do not live in some Maoist style dictatorship...although I confess I too, had one of those navy cotton mandarin jackets back in 1970.
And anyway, looking at the frantically shopping masses, teeming around the city centre, I can see quite literally nothing except a desert of bland. Hideous fucking khaki and those vile polyester looking chopped off 'shorts' which are, in fact, just attenuated trousers - proportion fails leaving 6 inches of shin and some frankly disgusting exposed feet. I keep my eyes firmly at midriff level in case I inadvertently ruin my day with a vision of footy horror (but accept this as a personal quirk)
For me, it's socks always (in the name of public decency...and I also promise to not reveal my scabby gardeners knees)...unless in the privacy of bedroom or bathroom.

 

[marty21]

Ankle socks or no socks.

I think those ankle socks are very strange , socks or no socks , never ankle socks. As it happens, today no socks but I do wear proper socks too with trainers and shorts. I also favour the sandal / trainer hybrid (no socks)

 

[patman post]

Anybody a follower of the fashion for no socks, even when wearing a suit or other formal business attire...?

 

[Pickman's model]

I think I must have a more interesting life than you staying home and carping at people over trivial matters

Yeh. But you'd be wrong.

 

[marty21]

#nosocks #nofuckinganklesockseither

 

[marty21]

Anybody a follower of the fashion for no socks, even when wearing a suit or other formal business attire...?

Proper shoes with suits always and socks

 

[Orang Utan]

Today:

 

[SpookyFrank]

View attachment 133405 #nosocks #nofuckinganklesockseither

#hopeyoulikeblisters

 

[marty21]

#hopeyoulikeblisters

Just went and walked 3 miles #noblisters

 

[marty21]

Today:
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Couldn't carry that look off myself but great sock/trainer work .

 

[Pickman's model]

Just went and walked 3 miles #noblisters

Not to be confused with burkes peerage's tag #nob_listers or men with a friction fetish #knobblisters

 

[dessiato]

I don't always wear socks with my trainers, at the gym of course. Sometimes I eschew socks with my driving shoes, although, of course, I prefer to wear appropriate socks. My absolute favourite are fine cotton, or silk. I usually prefer cotton though.

 

[moose]

I ventured out in me shorts to the local shop, but at least it was dusk so I don't think anyone was horrified by the sight of my legs. I was wondering about the transparency of the shorts though.

What you need are some lower-leg tattoos. Distract people.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Get some socks tattooed on your pasty legs?

 

[Celyn]

I just looked up "puttees" because I realised that, although familiar with the word, I couldn't really say what it meant, apart from a vague "soldiers in hot places" notion. Also that it might be a thing for the horses, not the humans, and that it looks like one of the words stolen from India.

In 2013, the remains of two teenaged Austrian First World War soldiers were found on the Presena glacier. One of them carried a spoon tucked into his puttees, apparently a common practice amongst soldiers eating out of communal pots.[6]

Puttee - Wikipedia

Well, that's nice.

 

[Celyn]

Get some socks tattooed on your pasty legs?

Nice bit of thinking there! Like all those women who drew lines on the back of their legs because they had no stockings. (Style tip: don't go playing on a tree swing if wearing stockings because your skirt blows up, you show more than you meant to, and people laugh. Not "blows up" in the meaning of explode, obviously, although that does sound as though it has potential as a murder method, like whatisname and the poisoned umbrella).

 

[Thimble Queen]

Today:
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This is much better. You have contrast now x

 

[Celyn]

It's hard to get decent shorts - they're either too sporty or to khaki-y

Wear a kilt. There are some very good-looking tartans and some very garish and nasty ones.

 

[JimW]

I bought a pair of those trainers designed to be worn with no socks and saved the dilemma, though tbh I have no idea what it is about them makes the difference. Anyway, look alright and are comfy even walking a fair step.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wear a kilt. There are some very good-looking tartans and some very garish and nasty ones.

He'd end up wearing the Diana princess of wails tartan

 

[Celyn]

I bought a pair of those trainers designed to be worn with no socks and saved the dilemma, though tbh I have no idea what it is about them makes the difference. Anyway, look alright and are comfy even walking a fair step.

New thing I have learned today. I didn't know there were such trainers. I have to admit that I have usually tended towards the view that anyone wearing trainers when not actively engaged in sport is a dodgy character. I have no excuse for this and my 83 year old Dad often wears trainers, because of comfort and because, he says, they can be put in the washing machine.

 

[campanula]

Wear a kilt. There are some very good-looking tartans and some very garish and nasty ones

Grief, I don't usually notice stuff like this but I saw a kilted chap in Kew gardens a few weeks ago (I was at the orchid festival)...and I swear, He looked...fabulous. Great calves. I was hugely taken aback (must have been feverish after the orchids).

It (the kilt) was a subdued navy with teal and dark green. Bloody good (knee) socks, too.

 

[Celyn]

...
For me, it's socks always (in the name of public decency...and I also promise to not reveal my scabby gardeners knees)...unless in the privacy of bedroom or bathroom.

Come to my bedchamber, my beloved, and I shall show you my knees.

 

[campanula]

I have to admit that I have usually tended towards the view that anyone wearing trainers when not actively engaged in sport is a dodgy character

I have never worn trainers (or jeans, shudder), in my life (although, I admit to dungarees in the late 80s).

 

[Celyn]

Just went and walked 3 miles #noblisters

You'll be joining the "Proclaimers" any day now.

To be fair, though, the "Proclaimers" didn't actually specify in what sort of time-scale they would be walking the 500 miles and 500 more. Hmm.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have never worn trainers (or jeans, shudder), in my life (although, I admit to dungarees in the late 80s).

To me trainers and jeans are the default clobber of the vast majority of people I encounter on a daily basis. If not, tracksuit bottoms and hoodies

 

[Celyn]

He'd end up wearing the Diana princess of wails tartan

I don't think I can imagine Orang Utan as a Diana fan.