Socks

[gilana]

For as long as I can remember, I have worn sweat socks. At some point I tried to get classy and started getting some of them in black, although many of my pairs are now old enough that they're closer to grey. But I'm dressing a little better in general these days, and I'm starting to get a little self-conscious about my dingy sweat socks peeking out between my nice dress pants and my funky purple suede clogs. So, this week, I invested in several pairs of girl socks. You know the kind I mean... they're short, and thin, and they have pretty patterns on them. Stripes, and polka dots, and flowers, and minimalist argyles... no cartoon characters, but I may get there yet. I'm still trying to figure out how to choose socks for an outfit -- do they need to match? complement? or just not clash terribly? but I'm confident I can learn.

So! Talk to me of socks! What kind do you wear? Knee socks? Toe socks? Tube socks? Do they match? Do you choose them by thickness or height or color or what? Tell me all!

Comments

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most amusing and fascinating set of comments to a post that I have seen in a while. Who knew that a discussion on sox could inspire such a vast range of creative responses? No one has yet mentioned Red Sox - so I do, just for the fun of the baseball season. My favorite pair(s) of sox are knitted, patterned, gaily colored - the right sock does not match the left sock, although they co-ordinate with each other by using similar colors and patterns. I have one pair in red-yellow-royal blue-and-black and another in bright pink-purple-aqua-yellow-and-orange. They always make me smile - and other people smile, too, when they see them. I wear them with pants during the day, with PJs at night, with a skirt when I am feeling silly, to keep my feet warm anytime - but never with a bathing suit.