A gift from Mr. Denimdestroyed my life on SF:
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=65544&highlight=socklessness
I now count Mr. D. as a friend of the forum & I owe him a favour.
J.
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.
I'm sockless from March until mid-September. I don't like them.
I only wear them in Fall/Winter because I should, not because I want to.
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've tried wearing dessies without, but they do tend to rub a bit. Sebago and Weejuns are best. I've got some nice Bean beefroll I bought off Staceyboy last year which are due the sockless treatment.
I burnt my socks at the equinox just as a good sometime Annapolitan should. That's the first day of spring. Boozin' 'n burnin'.
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...
GG does it effortlessly
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.
Been doing this a lot recently - chinos, wine Weejuns, Madras - what's not to like. I find with unlined Weejuns that my feet don't really sweat overly, just feel natural.
^Chinos and madras for me too, sometimes a polo shirt.... usually dirty bucks or dessies.
After weeks of going sockless (with suits) at work I was "informed" today that I am required to wear socks. No reason given. Although I am not the type given to impulsive peacockery, I immediately went online and bought 6 pairs of socks in fire engine red (a nod to the English), purple, lilac, periwinkle, and pink. Because I dislike authority.
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.
Never been sockless unless i'm wearing a nice pair of leather scuffs around the house during summer. Nothing would get my spirits crashing down like wearing no sox.
Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-07-10 00:36:19)
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.