Gen Z and socks w/sandals

[CdnCarrie]

What is up with trend for young people (college age) to wear socks with their sandals? Do you see this where you live?

It looks hot to me in the middle of summer.

 

[easyas123]

Not sure about kids these days, but back in my day (80's & 90's) we wore socks with sandals aka birkenstocks all the time.

I know my son (he's 30) will sometimes take off his boots and put on slides and still have his socks on when he's off work or working on the boat.

About half of my employees wear slides or sneakers to work and after work, leaving their boots in the back of their trucks or trunks...but that is more a reflection of where we work vs. a fashion choice !

 

[MillauFr]

I always wear socks and sandals. I get blisters if I don't wear socks.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I always wear socks and sandals. I get blisters if I don't wear socks.

I always wear sandals bare foot with a cute pedicure - all summer long.

If I needed socks I would wear loafers or runners.

 

[citruscurtis]

I don't get a pedicure... so the sweat from the sock keeps my heels from forming dangerous rough skin issues...I wear sandals 365 days...one of the benefits of living in the sunniest place on earth ...huh. The other side of earth ... there we are

 

[MillauFr]

I always wear sandals bare foot with a cute pedicure - all summer long.

If I needed socks I would wear loafers or runners.

I haven't found any shoes that have as good arch support as Birkenstocks. The arch in those things is huge. Walk 10+ miles around Disneyland and my feet feel great at the end of the night.

 

[slo]

This trend has been around for quite awhile, you may just be noticing it for the first time now. When my girls were younger they used to watch a show called So Random on Disney Channel and they did a Socks With Sandals skit - so funny. To this day, when we see someone wearing socks with sandals we look at each other and say, "Socks with sandals! What what what!!!" I can't believe this video is from 14 years ago - crazy!!!

 

[NYCgrrl]

Socks with slide ons have become a gender neutral norm this way.
Nobody needs to worry about seeing me wearing them though.

On the bright side they seem to have replaced the furry sandals that look like house slippers which definitely made me go “Hmm”.

 

[pens4821]

When I was a teen (late 90s/early00s) you would’ve gotten made fun of relentlessly for wearing socks with sandals. Or for wearing sweatpants. Or not having pants long enough to go to your shoes. Or wearing socks higher than your ankles. Or having a mustache only. Funny how trends change over time, and some of them end up repeating from previous generations.

I’m waiting for the 80s/early 90s style to come back. I used to love my hammer pants. Not really sure if the correct term but I think anyone from that time frame knows what I mean.

 

[mjkacmom]

My kids had this look due to coming and going from dance, soccer and track. Boys wore slides but girls would wear bird as well.

 

[barkley]

I haven't found any shoes that have as good arch support as Birkenstocks

I had a co-worker who every day-rain or shine-wore Birkenstocks with socks. he completed this look with khaki shorts (again-rain or shine). unique guy and no matter how often clients forgot his name we could always figure out who they were asking for b/c they would say 'you know-the guy with the socks and berkes'

 

[kdonnel]

I read this as socks with handles and thought that was more something boomers or older gen-x would need.

 

[ronandannette]

I always wear sandals bare foot with a cute pedicure - all summer long.

If I needed socks I would wear loafers or runners.

That's because you're GenX and you know how to behave...

 

[LoveDaisy]

My dad is 80 and wears socks with sandals. I can’t wait tell him he’s cool like the kids.

 

[pwdebbie]

I thought this was an old man thing. I watched that video. Maybe it should have "boxers and socks with sandals."

 

[Dan Murphy]

How abouts socks with Crocs? My son does that. Is that 'correct'?

 

[barkley]

I read this as socks with handles and thought that was more something boomers or older gen-x would need.

the sandals that were popular with many a 'boomer' you would have broken your neck trying to wear socks with-


those smoth wooden dr. scholl's were slippery as h--- and until you built up a bit of a callous slippage was common.

How abouts socks with Crocs? My son does that. Is that 'correct'?

I get the knockoff fleecy lined ones to save time

 

[kdonnel]

So like every idea, good or bad, someone else has already had it.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/senior-socks-with-handles

 

[NotUrsula]

I wonder if, for the young ones, the issue is foot exposure. They are really weird about letting anyone who isn't family or a really close friend see their feet.

(It slays me that teen girls will wear very cheeky bikinis to the beach, but insist on full-coverage mesh water sneakers rather than flip-flops, because some creeper might see their feet.)

 

[barkley]

I wonder if, for the young ones, the issue is foot exposure. They are really weird about letting anyone who isn't family or a really close friend see their feet.

unless they are of legal age and charging strangers for that privledge on 'feet finder' and 'onlyfans'.