1 week Ago By Damien Woolnough
It’s not your sock size that counts, it’s the way that you wear them. Foot watchers have spent months arguing about what your sock-length says about you , but they’ve all got it wrong. The sock debate started when fitness podcaster Phoebe Parsons posted a video to TikTok in November saying: “This is exactly how you can tell the difference between a Millennial and a Gen Z just by looking at their feet,” before proudly revealing her sockless ankle and announcing, “I’m a Millennial.
” Models at the Victoria’s Secret casting in New York on August 28 demonstrate sock diversity. Credit: Getty Suddenly, crew socks stretching to the calf muscle became the double-stitched signifier of youth, championed by celebrities Jenna Ortega, Bella Hadid and Sydney Sweeney. Ankle styles and no-show sockettes, those supposedly invisible liners for loafers and ballet flats that constantly peek into view, were derided online as more ageing than Kumfs shoes.
You can wear ankle socks As in many debates, style leaders have been too busy to follow orders from TikTok as they blazed their own trail in socks running the gamut from peek-a-boo to knee-grazing. Loading The greatest diversity at last week’s New York casting for the coming Victoria’s Secret runway show was the length of the models’ socks. Crew socks, ankle socks and no-show socks were part of the off-duty model look, with many keeping their sock length a mystery beneath cowboy boots.
“Contrary to popular, or unpopular opinion, I love an ankle sock,” says Peter Simon Phillips, stylist and 10 Magazine fashion editor, who doesn’t see them as agents of premature ageing..
