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Is going sockless the gelding of men's fashion
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That's the first thing that came to my mind also.The title should have been:Originally Posted by MacDaddy
Is going sockless the Castrato of men's fashion?
I just finished watching the series ROME from HBO (excellent). The term was a verb applied to slaves, but times have changed. Of course, castrato are not all that common anymore either (San Francisco city employees have gelding as one of their paid medical benefits).
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Of course, castrato are not all that common anymore either.Originally Posted by comrade
And music is the worse for it.
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the picture posted in the first page just killed me. A blazer with shorts!?!!?! Anyways, I am a strong supporter of going sockless, especially in driving mocs. I own three pairs of these http://www.colehaan.com/colehaan/cat...CS_003=4386239. I wear them almost daily with khaki pants, a brown suit, or shorts.
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I wear my socks over my shoes. When I wear loafers I put on two pairs of socks.
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the picture posted in the first page just killed me. A blazer with shorts!?!!?!Originally Posted by g00n
Anyways, I am a strong supporter of going sockless, especially in driving mocs. I own three pairs of these http://www.colehaan.com/colehaan/cat...CS_003=4386239. I wear them almost daily with khaki pants, a brown suit, or shorts.
You wear those with a suit? Good thing you found this forum.
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dont like it
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I wear shorts a fair amount and have looked for ways of improving the look. SF seems to advocate a loafer sockless look, and also the wearing of pants and dress shoes sockless. I frequently survey the population when I am out and about, and out of 500+ men in shorts, none have been in loafers. It looks simply wrong to me. Similarly pictures of men in slacks and leather shoes sin socks is an affront to nature , IMO. I think what bothers me is that this is a distinctly female style. Women are always wearing nice leather shoes without socks, and it looks great. So why this push to feminize mens fashion? Your thoughts?Originally Posted by PTWilliams
Haven't you posted pics of yourself in a cape before?
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khaki shorts or madras with black beef roll loafers, sockless, used to be a standard look. check out Take Ivy. and call off the gender police.Originally Posted by Kei-bon
Yes, this is a look that goes back many decades. There are many pics of JFK and others sporting this look in the 50's and earlier.
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