Scathing Attack on White Socks

[HippieLee]

My personal general rule is:
Never wear white socks with any shoe dressier than sneakers.

My weekend attire is almost always jeans, tennis shoes and concert t-shirt. I always wear white socks - either long tube socks if I'm wearing my Chucks high-tops or those ankle socks if wearing my cross-trainers.

But at work I don't wear sneakers (except on casual friday) so I have always worn colored socks - usually dark blue or black although I do have a pair of bright blue and silver Dallas Cowboys socks I wear when I feel like sportin' my team. And Romo hasn't fumbled. I should probably get a pair of Garnet and Gold FSU socks too.

But none of that has much to do with how I will wear my kilt attire - my first kilt won't be here until November so I have time to read threads like this and plan my look. I like learning the "rules" and knowing why customs are customary so I'll know better if and when I should break the rules and/or disregard the custom. I trust you ladies and gentlemen to teach me in that regard WAY more than I trust some fashion website bloggy thing. :-)

Edit to add: I didn't mean to t give the impression I cross train - that's what the shoes are, not what I do with them. Unless by "cross-training" you mean holding a beer in each hand and alternating which one I drink from on each chug.

[Kilted Cole]

I'm going to wear white sock now, just as my way to say......well......what they can do to themselves for being over opinionated ........yeah....you know where I'm going with this.

[Kilted Cole]

So yeah......take that letter to the editor....:butt:

[Chas]

So yeah......take that letter to the editor....

Oh dear. What are you wearing on your head?

[Kilted Cole]

Oh dear. What are you wearing on your head?

LOL...front view of a black flat cap. lol...yeah....not the best pic of it. D' Oh!

[mookien]

I often turn my flat cap backwards to achieve that look, kind of like baseball player's do.

PS: I like those white socks.

[Kilted Cole]

I often turn my flat cap backwards to achieve that look, kind of like baseball player's do.

PS: I like those white socks.

LOL why thank you...normally I cock my flat caps off to the side.....but I just slammed it on my head quickly for the sake of the pic. I like em as well....if worn with the proper kilt.....I'm not too keep on white hose with ghillie broughes. Too circa 1990's pipe band for me. they do look good with the Scruffy Wallace though. all scrunched down and what.

[mookien]

What I take from all this is that if I wear a "sports" kilt (whatever that is) I should wear white socks and sneakers. I'm glad to get that fashion advice. I plan to give it all the consideration it's due.

[WillowEstate]

But none of that has much to do with how I will wear my kilt attire - my first kilt won't be here until November so I have time to read threads like this and plan my look. I like learning the "rules" and knowing why customs are customary so I'll know better if and when I should break the rules and/or disregard the custom.

The only rules is there are no rules! Dress maketh the man, they say and for me, that's it. What I wear expresses my personality on any particular day and the image I choose to present to the world. If the world doesn't like it, that's the world's loss.

I do wear off white hose with some old white leather Nike trainers and very occasionally with a kilt and "proper shoes" but generally, I prefer darker colours with the MacKenzie tartan, modern and Seaforth.

Oh, and like HippieLee, I'm fit enough I don't need to "train" - the Nikes are just comfy!

[tundramanq]

Take note that cream/offwhite is the color of natural wool. To get white you have to strip the lanolin and bleach the wool.

Here my knee high cotton/spandex support hose only come in black and white. I have to dye some of the white ones to increase the variety of colors to choose from. I choose the color I wear based on that looks good to me that day. White gets worn about as much as one of the colors or black.