不要低估一只小白袜子的力量
If you, like me, are a millennial on TikTok, then you have likely been bullied by Gen Z for wearing everything from skinny jeans to ankle 袜子. (Both, according to today’s youth, are very much out of style.) It simply never dawned on me that a sock could be a dead giveaway that I was born in the ’90s, but alas, no-show socks have been deemed outré. It is now, apparently, all about the scrunched crew sock. If you want to wear sneakers in the summer, cover up those ankles—a mid-calf sock, worn with shorts or a skirt, is now the height of cool!
My question is: How did this happen? How did we get here? In a sense, I do get it: No-show socks evoke a sort of 2010s nostalgia, when men would regularly wear dress loafers with no socks—the pant hems rolled up, of course. Fashion has certainly evolved since then, and so should sock styling. But how did the athletic crew sock become the go-to pairing for shorts? I asked my Gen Z coworkers to weigh in.
“I’ve always found ankle socks that show deeply unchic,” says 时尚 fashion writer Hannah Jackson. “Something about them looks unintentional and sloppy.” Associate content manager Florence O’Connor took it one step further: “Not only are ankle socks unattractive—I do not need to see your knobbly ankles at the gym, I’m already sad enough to be there—they constantly fall down, making you vulnerable to otherwise very avoidable blisters! Crew socks or bust.”
