Eww.

By eww, I mean, well, I mean that it looks disgusting. Honestly, who’s great idea was it to put on a pair high socks to stay warm while wearing a pair of shorts to remain cool. It’s a contradiction of a trend, but alas, it’s a trend and I’m here to write about it.

From personal experience of just paying attention, it seems as though these have been around since about 2012-2013 and for some unknown reason stuck like a mouse on a sticky trap. After (very) short research, I’ve discovered that in more urban places it started around 2009 and is actually a revival of a former trend. So apparently men haven’t known how to dress for a long time.

This is one of those trends that really makes you question my generation. Seriously, I’m trying to think of some logical reason behind what the height of the socks are meant for. So I’ll list of some possible reasons why:

• To keep your ankles warm when there is a floor draft.
• A witch cursed you with a spell that makes your ankles invisible so you are trying to hide that embarrassment.
• High socks repel sharks keeping your feet safe.
• They were an inherited gift from that friendly gnome you once helped when you were five.
• Pablo Picasso designed your pair of high socks and you are just flaunting your precedence.
• You didn’t know that a more reasonable sock exists for your outfit.

If you walk around the halls of FTHS or if you go to the mall or somewhere else very pubic, you will see boys from tween to teen wearing this combo of shorts and high socks with a pair of sneakers that most likely cost $500, and the shoes probably match the socks which most likely match the shorts. It’s just one of those things that shouldn’t be popular but are, similar to the Kardashians.

I once tried to hop in on this trend years ago. I bought a pair of high socks (to be specific I bought Nike Elites, which was the popular brand in my school), which ultimately cost $17 for a single pair– I may have been scammed. Then the fateful moment came, right before school when I was about to go run to the bus stop because I’m always fashionably late, where I slipped on the pair of socks, felt awkward, put on a pair of shoes and looked into a mirror, saw how disgusting I looked, ripped them off of my body, and then shoved them in my sock draw to never be seen again.

This was back when I used to try to fit in by trying to join these trends, because I had no friends at the time. I usually ended up not wearing the piece of “trendy” (trendy makes the articles seem fashionable, they were far from it) clothing and looking back I’m glad I didn’t stoop to that point of fashionless trash because now I know how to dress myself (unlike a majority of the male population, especially in this school) and now I write about fashion on a weekly to bi-weekly basis because DiGiuseppe thinks that I’m doing a non-horrible job [editor’s note: DiGiuseppe thinks no such thing].

Anyways, moral of this is that if you don’t feel comfortable wearing what everyone else is wearing and you feel that you look better and are less anxious wearing what you want, then be true to you because trends fade and what’s most important is how you feel in what you wear. If you end up feeling good in whatever you’re wearing then the goal of a fashion designer was met and nothing can stop you.