What colour socks do you normally wear?

[timbicile]

I think I get the disconnect here.
For me jeans are high fashion, usually sweats are fine.
If I wear a button-up shirt it must be a funeral or a wedding.
Always white socks. own no black.

[Carolia]

As my dad got older, he decided that his black dress socks were terribly uncomfortable, and therefore chose to wear his white diabetic sport sock with everything. Mind you, they made black ones, but Daddy would not be swayed. He also had the remarkable habit of buying his pants, especially his jeans, too short. My father was a fine man, a good husband and a wonderful father, but a fashion maven he was not, with his pants tucked under his gut and his white socks gleaming in the sunlight.

When he died, Mom sent me and my hubby to the house to pick up his burial outfit, which he had designated as his brown suit with a tie and shirt of my choosing. We were also told to bring socks only, no shoes. I picked up one of the white pair. Mom asked me why I had gotten them when his brown socks would have looked better. I told her that if he was alive, he would have refused to have worn them. Why should I put them on him now, especially if nobody else was going to see them? She agreed with me, and we buried him in those white socks, darn it.

[Solfy]

Today I'm wearing knee-high nylons. I suspect they're old fashioned/frumpy as they're getting hard to find, but I can NOT go sockless in shoes, and socks don't go with ballet flats. I tried the little footie things but they show too much around the edges.

I'm required to wear leather shoes, no synthetics, no mules/backless/strappy shoes for work. I'll likely be in the ballet flats with knee-highs all summer, then it's back to hand-knit wool socks in a rainbow of colors (often all in the same sock) with mary-janes for winter. Black socks are for when I'm out of hand-knits, and white socks are for with tennis shoes only while running. At home in the summer there's as little on my feet as possible.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by stormie

Noooo, not the Birkenstocks and white sox*! AAAGGggghhhhh.

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it!

(Not that I'd wear them in public.)

[Fish]

38-year-old straight male.

I have socks in gray, green, blue, black, white, tan, brown, cream, and I wear socks to match the shirt I have on. I also wear shoes to match, but it's harder for me to find shoes that fit in colors other than mahogany and black. If I could, I'd have tan-colored shoes, plus socks in red, purple, and more blues. Not easy to find colored socks for men, though.

[AHunter3]

I have a sock drawer with gold-toe and similar brands of socks in denim blue, ochre, light grey, dark grey, deep gold, reddish brown, deep brown, light blue, black, forest green, and probably some other colors as well.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Xploder

I think I've only worn socks about a dozen times since the mid 80's. My feet used to sweat to much inside my boots so I stopped wearing them. Even up in the mountains of Germany in the dead of winter it was no problem. If I HAVE to wear some, wedding, funeral, whatever, then it's black to go with my one pair of dress shoes that I bought back in the 70's.

I'm cheap when it comes to buying clothing items for me.

You should change your title to 'commando feet'.

I'm glad to have appalled all you black sock fanatics. Now I just need to get me some sandals.

The theory is that with all one color sock, any sock matches any other sock, but I can never find the same brand/style two times running when I buy socks every four years or so.

[hilarity n. suze]

Originally Posted by AHunter3

I have a sock drawer with gold-toe and similar brands of socks in denim blue, ochre, light grey, dark grey, deep gold, reddish brown, deep brown, light blue, black, forest green, and probably some other colors as well.

Sounds just like my husband's sock drawer. Except all of his started out as black. And the most surprising thing is, he bought them all at once.

Wait, I think the light blue ones are mine.

[Sleel]

Guy, American living abroad.

Usually some shade of grey, brown, or black. I phased out white socks a few years ago. I wear business casual or suits to work, so white socks are pretty much useless for daily wear, and I don't particularly like them with more casual clothes either. Stopped wearing white underwear too.

I dislike cotton socks. Cotton is useless for hiking, running, pretty much anything where you're covering lots of ground and you might get sweaty. Cotton socks = blisters more often than not. I run barefoot a lot of the time, in Vibram Five-Fingers, or Nike Frees with thin nylon liners. If I'm doing gym workouts, I'll do it barefoot if I'm in a facility where I can, or wear CoolMax or similar wicking materials. Hiking socks are always wool or wool blend. I tend to like Smartwool better than most others.

Dress socks aren't usually plain cotton, but I avoid those that are, as well as plain nylon socks; nylon makes for really stinky feet. I usually get wool blend or silk/nylon mixes, or cotton/nylon if there are no better choices.

[The Devil's Grandmother]

For the past two years I've worn these wool socks from REI to work everyday. My office is too damn cold.

[PastAllReason]

Originally Posted by Solfy

Today I'm wearing knee-high nylons. I suspect they're old fashioned/frumpy as they're getting hard to find, but I can NOT go sockless in shoes, and socks don't go with ballet flats. I tried the little footie things but they show too much around the edges.

I'm required to wear leather shoes, no synthetics, no mules/backless/strappy shoes for work. I'll likely be in the ballet flats with knee-highs all summer, then it's back to hand-knit wool socks in a rainbow of colors (often all in the same sock) with mary-janes for winter. Black socks are for when I'm out of hand-knits, and white socks are for with tennis shoes only while running. At home in the summer there's as little on my feet as possible.

Have you tried trouser socks? You can get some that are not much thicker than pantyhose and come in an array of colours and patterns.

Personally, I hardly ever wear socks. I wear tights a lot in winter as I wear suits with skirts to work; tights turn into pantyhose in spring/fall, and bare legs when at all possible in the summer. Beyond work I almost always have bare feet in shoes/slippers. I do have a few odd pairs of trouser socks in different colours, and I have a few pairs of fuzzy socks for cold feet in the winter. These could be nearly any colour at all. Truthfully I usually have trouble finding them, or can find only one, and then I just end up buying more.

[missred]

USA, female

I wear jeans and loafers a lot. Most of my socks are blue, but I have some fun colors and patterns that I coordinate with whatever blouse I have on at times. I have white socks to wear to the gym or with sneakers and black, grey and beige ones for wear with dress slacks. During warmer weather, when I'm in shorts or capris, I wear sports socks because anything more looks goofy on me.

I wear no socks with sandals or topsiders, nylons with pumps and monkey socks with hiking boots, so I voted that I'm not consistant.

[Pencil]

M/Sweden


During sock season (Oct-Apr) I only wear black socks.
White socks are only for playing tennis, using them in any other way became fugly along with hard hair and big shoulder pads circa 1990.

Also, a man wearing short pants is not allowed to wear socks. With shorts, one is allowed to wear sneakers, Vans, Keds, Topsiders, Birks, tevas, hiking boots - all are ok, but it's only with hiking boots that socks are allowed. And only when going hiking. And then the socks should be that thick, rugged, gray wool sock. Short pants must never ever be worn with anything even resembling loafers or laced up shoes.
BTW, it's a crime against humanity for a man to have short pants ending above the knee.

[Necros]

Originally Posted by Salambo

I also have monkey socks and will occasionally declare a random day as Monkey Sock Day. Everyone who wears monkey socks get monkey cake.

I do not have monkey socks.
I do however have sushi socks, wine socks, martini socks, taxi socks, NYC socks, Marvin the Martian socks, Spider man socks, skull socks, foot bone socks, chalk outline socks, race car socks, guitar socks, alien socks, fish socks, dinosaur socks, shark socks, pirate socks, and about 50 more.

I like socks.

[Katriona]

If I'm wearing loafers, my socks will be a close match to my top. This is my mother's Marian the Librarian coming out in me. It makes me absolutely freaking insane if my stuff doesn't match. I took a sweater from western KS to Seattle once to find matching socks. Still have the sweater; no luck on the socks.

If I'm wearing sneakers, they'll be white.

[Doyle]

Black, blue, brown, tan, , gray, argyle, white. Whatever matches.

I frequently have to wear a tie and white socks don't look so good then.

[Illuminati Primus]

Originally Posted by Pencil

M/Sweden


During sock season (Oct-Apr) I only wear black socks.
White socks are only for playing tennis, using them in any other way became fugly along with hard hair and big shoulder pads circa 1990.

Also, a man wearing short pants is not allowed to wear socks. With shorts, one is allowed to wear sneakers, Vans, Keds, Topsiders, Birks, tevas, hiking boots - all are ok, but it's only with hiking boots that socks are allowed. And only when going hiking. And then the socks should be that thick, rugged, gray wool sock. Short pants must never ever be worn with anything even resembling loafers or laced up shoes.
BTW, it's a crime against humanity for a man to have short pants ending above the knee.

Nods

You speak sense. I see the Euro/US split continues pretty much as I predicted.