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

[Orang Utan]

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

I'm not but I do have a Princess Di t-shirt

 

[PursuedByBears]

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

I always assumed you wore braces and a bowler like all Londoners

ETA maybe now a flat cap and a whippet.

 

[Celyn]

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.

Feverish after the orchids? Well, quite.

 

[campanula]

Oh god no - tracksuit bottoms. Not even as pyjamas.

My youngest, otoh, seems to possess about 30 grey tracksuit bottoms and a similar number of grey, black and, v.occasionally, brown hoodies. I am driven to the gaudy spectrum in self-defence.
Liking the socks and purple suede combo.

 

[Pickman's model]

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

I can't imagine him any other way

 

[Celyn]

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

Yes, dungarees always look good (on anyone other than me) Likewise "jumpsuits" of the 1980s. If weather is cold and you put on jumper on top of either of those, then nice and warm but a real annoyance when going to the toilet. If put on jumper *beneath* the thing, it's all a bit uncomfortably constricting. Plus, looking like Michelin man.

 

[Celyn]

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

Well, I never wore socks for formal or business attire.

Does your definition of "anybody" actually mean "any men"?

 

[Orang Utan]

You need socks if you don't want your shoes or trainers to stink and feel icky

 

[Celyn]

I'm not but I do have a Princess Di t-shirt

But WHY????

It occurs to me that I did not even know that dead Diana T-shirts existed, but I suppose they would, really.

 

[Celyn]

You need socks if you don't want your shoes or trainers to stink and feel icky

But surely Stinky and Icky are old radio one DJs?

 

[Orang Utan]

But WHY????

Fancy dress party

 

[Celyn]

Fancy dress party

Oh. Fair enough, then, I suppose. If you say so.

But how can we know that your village/town/city was not a shockingly great ghetto of crazy daft monarchists?

 

[Johnny Doe]

Today:
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You lost your skateboard?

 

[emanymton]

Fancy dress party

Did you go as a tunnel wall?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did you go as a tunnel wall?

Might have gone as a flight of stairs

 

[marty21]

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.

166 days at 3 miles a day

 

[Pickman's model]

166 days at 3 miles a day

you could change miles for pints and walk for drink

oh i will drink 500 pints
and i will drink 500 more
just to be the man who drinks a thousand pints
and falls down at your door

 

[bemused]

I'm too modest to show my ankles.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm too modest to show my ankles.

pics or stfu

 

[iona]

You need socks if you don't want your shoes or trainers to stink and feel icky

Invisible socks

I have some that I wear with trainers and smart shirt & trousers (I don't own a suit)

 

[Vintage Paw]

It is always acceptable to wear whatever the fuck you want with whatever the fuck you want

 

[Pickman's model]

It is always acceptable to wear whatever the fuck you want with whatever the fuck you want

If you have the style and savoir fire to carry it off. Apart from red or yellow cords which are always a fashion faux pas

 

[Shechemite]

It is always acceptable to wear whatever the fuck you want with whatever the fuck you want

which is why Orang Utan is worthy of mockery for posting up such a needy/attention seeking thread

 

[Shechemite]

If you have the style and savoir fire to carry it off. Apart from red or yellow cords which are always a fashion faux pas

or breaking the seven-eleven rule

 

[Orang Utan]

which is why Orang Utan is worthy of mockery for posting up such a needy/attention seeking thread

all threads are attention-seeking. you should really examine your own motives for being so unpleasant to people. you wouldn't mock people on the new clobber thread or the nekkid thread, so I don't see why you should get a free pass to mock others elsewhere.

 

[Shechemite]

all threads are attention-seeking. you should really examine your own motives for being so unpleasant to people. you wouldn't mock people on the new clobber thread or the nekkid thread, so I don't see why you should get a free pass to mock others elsewhere.

You've been obnoxious on such threads, so i'm not sure what your point is.

I don't want a pass. Why do you need one?

 

[marty21]

which is why Orang Utan is worthy of mockery for posting up such a needy/attention seeking thread

Why does he fuck you off so much you have to be a dick about it?

 

[Shechemite]

Why does he fuck you off so much you have to be a dick about it?

He doesn't, but I don't feel guilt about mocking the evidently mockable. People laugh at each other. It's ok.

 

[Orang Utan]

You've been obnoxious on such threads, so i'm not sure what your point is.

I don't want a pass. Why do you need one?

i have not mocked anyone for their physical appearance. you have. big man.

 

[Orang Utan]

He doesn't, but I don't feel guilt about mocking the evidently mockable. People laugh at each other. It's ok.

it's fine when it's not malicious.