bobbisoxer43 Posted January 19, 2002 Posted January 19, 2002 Hi, I just joined. Does anybody like to wear socks with heels? Back in the late '60's gals often wore knee socks with their heels and short skirts. Even flight attendants at Eastern and Braniff wore this combo. Starting in Paris and Europe and migrating to NYC and San Francisco in the late '70's and continuing to the present, I've seen people wear ankle socks, both plain and lace, with heels and skirts ranging from minis to below the calf. It must be nice with shaved bare legs in warm weather! I love it! I'd like to hear from both guys and gals! Sincerely, Barri S.
Laurieheels Posted January 19, 2002 Posted January 19, 2002 I have an intersting theory about this, but not everyone may like it. The continued thought of ankle socks with high heels in today's society often manifests itself in the area of fetish and pornography. I feel there is a disturbing trend here. School uniforms and plaid jumpers, pig tails, ankle socks with a lacy edge, and high heels. This seems to relate to an image of woman as a little girl. Perhaps it is meant to indictae that the woman is like a young girl, a virgin, trying to grow up a bit for attention. A rare stretch might be a tendancy to satiate pedophiles? I think the most accurate explanation for the attraction to socks with heels might be as a means to recapture one's youth. After all, are these not grown women posing for the pictures? They are being made out as reverting to youth, and so too would the viewer, in some way. As a fashion trend, socks and heels certainly were alive in the early 80s. I still think that it has a relation to a recapturing of a youthful time in life, but the heels signify the ability to be grown up and handle the more adult situations. Are heels and cute socks a regression to a time when girls felt pretty and care free at a young age? A time when they wished to grow up, but still hold onto the innocent values of youth? I think there is a link here. As far as the knee socks and heels, and other styles... pure European trend setting is a possibility, but then, young girls and even boys in many European countries had knee socks with their outfits. perhaps it is the same situation - a means to recapture aspects of youth while projecting a hint of adulthood. Laurie
Firefox Posted January 19, 2002 Posted January 19, 2002 Good points Laurie. I wear ankle sox with high heel ankle boots but it's probably not what Bobi had in mind as the socks aren't on show. I find thin lycra trouser socks are the most practical hosiery to wear with ankle boots but I'm afraid it's far removed from schoolgirls in white socks and stilettos!
Carolyn Posted January 20, 2002 Posted January 20, 2002 I feel it's a slight fashion faux-pas to wear socks with court shoes or sandals. Tights look sooo much better in my opinion. I agree with the previous poster that trouser socks are suitable for ankle boots, but I'd be just as likely to wear tights or bare legs. It depends on the boots and the weather.
IHeels Posted January 20, 2002 Posted January 20, 2002 No way, stockings only, socks - I hate to say look tarty! Inga HEELS are POWER the HIGHER the BETTER.
Francis Posted January 20, 2002 Posted January 20, 2002 As I wear boots most of the time, it's socks for me! But if I wear my sandles, I go bare foot. Courts would be either bare foot or knee length stocking. I agree that the look of court style shoe and short socks does look girly, but again there are people that enjoy that look. Indeed, I see it in the street in summer, more from the fun loving crowd than the fashion victim.
Firefox Posted January 20, 2002 Posted January 20, 2002 I'd agree with the previous three posters. You might see school girls with socks and perhaps Mary Janes or some flat shoes but socks and high heels does tend to look out of place. One image that will always stick in my mind is from a girl of about 30 I saw about 1980. It was in a Northern City like Leeds or Manchester. She was obviously from a poorer area, with two screaming kids and puffing away on a fag. I'm sorry if that sounds a bit snobbish but it was an accurate description. Anyway, she was wearing 4 inch stiletto courts, very beaten up and worn; the wet and messy people would have loved them! She had a below knee cotton skirt and T-shirt and hair was bedraggled; her legs were bruised and cut. At one time she was probably very good looking, but fags, drugs, and a hard life had probably taken their toll. She clipped along at a fast pace in her heels like they weren't there, dragging the kids along, cussing at them to keep up. She obviously lived and died in those shoes, but the most amazing thing were these tattered grey ankle socks she was wearing with the courts. One halfway up her ankle, the other ruched and hanging over the uppers of the shoe. It was somehow a typical snapshot of hard inner city life. The worn stilettos scraping and echoing on the wet concrete formed one image, but for me the hopelessness of the situation was typified by those bedraggled and somewhat out of place socks.
Joak Posted January 21, 2002 Posted January 21, 2002 Well I'm starting to wear socks with the more closed heels styles - the point to change is the oxford style. I wear socks with ankle boots boots, stocking with pumps and the open styles I wear bare footed when I'm wearing them.... best wishes Joak
Beeblebrox Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 I wear socks with everything, although thin ones but still for men. I was once in a fetish shop in Stockholm, the suggested me to use nylons when I tried on those very high heeled boots (5-6"). I admit that they were very comfortable to wear with the boots, but I guess I'm used to wear socks with heels and thats why I continue with it.
Debbie(HK) Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 No socks for me either, I agree with Inga in that they look tarty. They tried to make them fashionable last year but it didn't take off - not surprising really! It;s stockings for me of course This is a platform free shoe zone!
Trolldeg Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 and yet, some would say seamed stockings look tarty.
IHeels Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Can't agree with you Trolldeg, any stocking looks classy. What really looks bad is the wearing of socks on the outside of stockings. Anyhow this is probably better than one football player who was quoted as saying he always puts his socks on last. Socks (sox) over the top of shoes - strange! Inga HEELS are POWER the HIGHER the BETTER.
Beeblebrox Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Well, we all have our own thoughts about socks. I respect others who dont like socks, so whats looks good for one person might not do so for the next one. Lets wear what we like and are comfortable with.
IHeels Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Breeb, My post was not meant to offend merely express my opinion. Choice is what its all about. Inga HEELS are POWER the HIGHER the BETTER.
Debbie(HK) Posted January 31, 2002 Posted January 31, 2002 Oh dear sorry if I've offended anyone like Inga, just expressing an opinion. There again, I'm older than some here. Maybe teenagers look ok with socks and heels but it wouldn't work for me. I consider seamed stockings to be more elegant. Take care, Debbie This is a platform free shoe zone!
Firefox Posted January 31, 2002 Posted January 31, 2002 It depends what you are wearing though. I mean, seamed stockings might be OK with a skirt, but with teenage bell-bottom fashion, who would know?....apart from yourself, if you fancied the tactile thing
Laurieheels Posted February 2, 2002 Posted February 2, 2002 Wearing socks over stocking sis a necessity for some people who need to walk to work at a fair clip. But then, since we change into better shoes at work, the socks go away. It's quite the trend where I live and probably most North American cities where women must walk to work. One reason to wear the socks is to protect the stockings from the wear they would suffer in the shoes used for walking. I have found that not wearing socks can cause a nasty run by the time I reach the office if the stocking is not a shadow toe. Call it a required evil of our modern world..
GeorgeWL Posted February 6, 2002 Posted February 6, 2002 I prefer thin trouser socks or sheer nylon knee highs if it's warm weather and I'm wearing trousers or jeans. With shorts, it's always opaque tights or sheer pantyhose. In cool weather it's tights or pantyhose under trousers or jeans. I mostly wear ComfiLon legwear for men (www.comfilon.com). I recommend them as a better alternative for guys than women's hose. They're actually made for men's dimensions.
Debbie(HK) Posted February 7, 2002 Posted February 7, 2002 I haven't got a problem with men wearing socks, that's what men do and I wouldn't think otherwise. What I was thinking of is stiletto heels and socks, that's too schoolgirly for me. I'm not suggesting that men should be wearing stockings either :eek: Debbie This is a platform free shoe zone!
Laurieheels Posted February 7, 2002 Posted February 7, 2002 I have been wearing socks with my ankle boots on the way to work. Why? To protect the stockings. A fast paced walk to work can rub on stockings, so they need protection. Once at work, off go the boots, off go the socks, and the well kept stockings find their way into some higher heels for the day.
Debbie(HK) Posted February 8, 2002 Posted February 8, 2002 I know what you mean, boots can really wreck stockings Don't you hate it when you get snags from boots. Debbie This is a platform free shoe zone!
hhbabelvr Posted February 20, 2002 Posted February 20, 2002 Although I am all for the girly look,I do think stockings look much better when worn with highheels that show them! Too many women tend to wear the right combination "hose & heels" but then spoil it by completely covering everything up with floor scraping trousers? go figure? Does anyone else agree?
Calv Posted February 21, 2002 Posted February 21, 2002 Right on. The subject of floor scraping trousers has been mentioned elsewhere. I must admit though I do like to see a nice pair of heels worn with a pair of wide black tailored trousers. It's probably the tantalising glimpse of shoe and heel and having to imagine the rest. The girls in the roadsweeper jeans though. That fashion is just plain ugly. Saw a new slant on that style last week, with a girl wearing a long denim skirt. The skirt was so long that it also trailed on the floor. As to the shoes they could have been carpet slippers but were doubtless trainers. Ugh!!! Do your own thing. Don't be a victim of conformity. Calv
Debbie(HK) Posted February 21, 2002 Posted February 21, 2002 I agree that floor scraping trousers have to be the worst kind going. I don't like the ones which look as though they are 2 sizes too small either look very strange. This is a platform free shoe zone!
IHeels Posted February 21, 2002 Posted February 21, 2002 I admit I do wear jeans, however I always have the length so that at an absolute minimum ½ the heel shows, preferably more (ie 4 inch, 2 to 3 inches exposed). Not into roadscraper jeans either. Fortunately my legs are pretty long so I'd have to see a tailor anyhow to turn my jeans into roadscrapers, so its not a problem I encounter when purchasing such. Inga HEELS are POWER the HIGHER the BETTER.
hhbabelvr Posted February 21, 2002 Posted February 21, 2002 Hi CALV ,I totally agree with u about the jeans,and the denime skirt -well lol,now that was funny,I've yet to have such an experience 'urg' and something tells me it won't be long. Getting back to the subject,I was out clubbing last friday to the late hours,and noticed these two girls (cause they stood out like sore fingers) ,literally dressed as school girls,hair in neat tuffs to the sides -something feminine at last,but what put me off was the fact that they were both wearing white knee high socks with highheels,not really my kind of thing cos u couldn't see their feet and they'ed covered most of their legs with these socks. They had obviously made an effort,but they didn't get the attension they deserved from the men,and they just seem to walk around - bit moody,and then ended up leaving early. All the girls dressed in sheer/skincolour stockings and sexy highheels caught my attension - WOW ,now thats more my kind of scene! don't u agree?
Highluc Posted February 22, 2002 Posted February 22, 2002 Talking about roadscraper wide jeans, do you guys from the London meet remember the girls waiting for the train inbound London in the morning. Due to the wet streets at least 6 inches of their pants were already soaked (from the bottom). I just can't imagine how they looked and must have been very heavy an uncomfortable after their shopping. Im convinced their trainers were more damp on the inside as the outside with all the rubbing from the wet pants on their socks. Be youself, enjoy any footwear you like and don't care about what others think about it, it's your life, not theirs. Greetings from Laurence
PJ Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 Wow, it's been over a year with no new postings. Time to revive this one. When I first started out wearing heels at a young age, I always wore socks with my high heels. Since I only wore heels with jeans, I thought it looked great. But later when I finally purchased my first nylons and slipped them on, the sensation was so pleasing that I never wore socks with my heels again. click .... click .... click .... The sensual sound of stiletto heels on a hard surface.
mk4625 Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 I don't care for stockings that much. However I wear them with slides and court shoes because socks are not appropriate for those kinds of footwear. It seems to me that the stockings slightly reduce the amount of stimulation I get from wearing women's boots and shoes. I can't explain it. Michael
HHfanatic Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 Tanned slim legs, white socks and black high heels .............yummiiiii looks great on girls.
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