interesting article - i've been going socklless a lot - i think because i'm lazy. i don't have to worry about finding matching socks in the drawer or thinking I should do laundry because there arent any clean.  but then i think it just adds to my rumpled ivy look i'm going for.

That extended thread is painful to read through.
Anyway, I like loafers without socks during the warmer months.  Much cooler. Unlined are better but I wear both.  I find it helps to have a few pairs in rotation, even changing during the day if I'm home.  I currently rotate primarily through sebago pennies (tan and cordo, both cayman II), Russell tassels (cordo unlined), and AE Kenwoods (cordo unlined).   I have boat shoes too but rarely wear them as I prefer the loafers.
I always wear socks to the office though.

i have mine off now(wearing jeans and boat shoes - i think i look a little bit like forrest from hellogoodbye )

I think this thread needs re-visiting.  I've been going mostly sockless these past weeks, but only in loafers or Docksides.  I like the Italian look, but I'm not wholly convinced any Englishman would get away with it.  I prefer dark socks with a suit: even one in cotton.  Slack jacket days look fine without.  It comes back to a question of balance, I think.  It would have to be the right cut, colour, material and weight, yes?  No?  Otherwise it could be a bit like Belmondo wearing tweed with silk in that Godard epic...

I embrace socklessness in most of its manifestations, though find the contemporary trend for no socks with a formal style brogue rather unappealing. Having said that I suddenly recall seeing Graham Marsh slinking through Covent Garden in 1988 wearing no socks with his Alden wing-tips... He got away with it but millions wouldn't. It's an obvious point but snowy white Anglo-ankles don't quite work. In the eighties I permanently stained the skin on my ankles, accidentally, by over-application of false tan cream...

g.g.

I'm a big fan - something quite youthful about it, which seems suitable for me, at least!
Would never even consider doing it with wingtips (which I don't own anyway, yet, but still). Loafers and boat shoes very often.

^ Yeah, bucks, sockless. Right now actually.

Good for you! Vive la revolution! Only when the last boss has been strangled with the socks of the last bureaucrat, err, or something. Anyway, what a bunch a mardy arses - my advice, wear those socks you can't see above your shoes - hey, you're still wearing socks right? Ha, ha in your face Mr Big Boss Man!

Seen this a.m. a rail passenger both sockless and shoeless.

Here in England, Shooman, some Ivy stylists are sockless during the hotter - or warmer months - for reasons of hipness: the west coast filtered through Soho look.  You get the picture.  I'll do my shopping this morning wearing Sebago Docksides - which look wrong with socks.  If I have to travel any distance, though - different choice of footwear, so maybe the socks have to be worn.  Horses for courses.