Sockless is the fashionable name given to the habit of wearing shoes without socks. Initially, only the strong half of humanity adhered to this style, but later women also began to wear shoes without socks, finding it very attractive.
You may find genuine but strange satisfaction in wearing your sneakers or shoes without socks. You feel light and there is no uncomfortable sock between you and your boot. But it should be noted that such a habit is very harmful to your health. You may be fine at first, but big problems are sure to catch up with you.
The article will describe the consequences of such a strange fashion, as well as provide valuable tips that will help maintain the health of your feet.
You can be sure that your feet are absolutely clean, but this will not be the case if you stop wearing socks. Your feet can produce 500 ml of sweat every day. To put this into perspective, imagine a volume of liquid slightly larger than the bottle of soda you buy at the grocery store. That's quite a lot of liquid!
Unfortunately, sweat contains bacteria that multiply quickly in damp and dark environments. Those pristine clean feet you were proud of, if you don't wear socks, will smell absolutely terrible.
Not wearing socks can also physically harm your feet. Many boots are not designed for direct contact with the skin of your feet. You can easily develop calluses or contact dermatitis from wearing shoes without socks all day long.
Calluses are painful, and if you don't have socks to protect your skin, the wound on your foot will become open to bacteria that will fill the shoe. Bacteria growing in your shoes will have easy access to the bloodstream through the callus. You can infect the body.
Even if you manage to squeeze your sockless feet into your running shoes without getting injured, the microorganisms living in the lining of your shoes can still cause you problems. Walking around without socks puts you at risk of developing a fungal infection called onychomycosis. Fungus is very difficult to get rid of and can damage your toenails. The fungus can also spread to the skin of the feet, causing itching and irritation.
To prevent your feet from smelling like sweat, experts suggest using baking soda baths, using medicated insoles, airing out your shoes, and alternating days when you wear your favorite shoes. But if the shoes become noticeably saturated with a bad odor, then you will have to buy a new pair of shoes.
Why don't people wear socks when they should?
When you think of winter wardrobe essentials, cozy socks are probably at the top of the list. Nobody likes to have cold feet, and there are many styles of socks that can provide warmth.
It might seem like there's nothing unusual about wearing socks, but not all socks are created equal. The warm socks you wear on the ski slopes or on a hunting trip are not the same as sports socks, which are designed to wick away moisture and keep your feet clean.
A misconception about socks is that they look ugly. You wouldn't want to wear office shoes with your sports logo tennis socks. If you really are a sock hater, you can find sporty styles that cut low to the ankle and are unlikely to be visible to others.
Sometimes people become absent-minded because they forget to put on a pair of socks when leaving the house. They are easy to forget when you are in a hurry.
You should get rid of the habit of going without socks once and for all.
The reasons for wearing socks are quite compelling. If you have a bad habit of not wearing socks, you can change it.
Here are some tips:
- Change your thinking. Think of your socks as underwear. They are for your protection. Sure, boots can protect your feet from some types of injuries and bacteria, but they can also cause sores and promote bacterial growth. You wash your socks after every use, but you can't do the same with your shoes. Your socks are a protective layer between your feet and the bacteria that grows in your shoes.
- Buy socks that match your style. Find a sock type that matches your shoes and style, instead of talking about how weird socks look with sneakers. Remember that there are socks even for people who generally do not accept this item of clothing.
- Keep your socks somewhere so you won't forget to put them on. If you're the type of person who rushes out of the house in the morning without socks, then pack a new pair in your sneakers or gym bag when you get home. You might also consider keeping a spare pair in your car or desk. It's a good idea to have a couple in reserve for when your feet get sweaty while you're away from home.
Little things you do can make a big difference in your life.
Walking without socks seems like such a harmless thing, but this habit can have dramatic consequences. At least you'll stop noticing people running away from the stench every time you take off your shoes. In the worst case scenario, you could face a life-threatening infection.
Your feet support you all day long. Show them your love by protecting them with beautiful socks.
Just as not all yoghurts are equally healthy, not all types of shoes allow you to wear socks. And this is not just another home-grown invention of stylists and designers who proclaimed coats 3 sizes larger than yours and orthopedic Birkenstock sandals fashionable - this is real fashion etiquette, the rules of which every self-respecting fashionista needs to know. "Lady Mail.Ru" - about what kind of shoes you should wear without socks (including nylon ones!).
Ballet shoes
Ballet shoes - women's shoes with flat soles, reminiscent of special ballet shoes - gained particular popularity in the last century. They were the favorite shoes of such film stars and recognized style icons as Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn. And, as we all remember, both actresses wore them without socks. Ballet flats worn on a bare leg look most impressive with light dresses to the knee or slightly lower, as well as with cropped cigarette trousers and jeans, and emphasize graceful ankles (one of the main weapons of seduction!) just as well as high heels.
Combining ballet flats with tights (even in the case of “black to black”) is also undesirable - such a mix looks strange by default, and the best thoughts it can evoke in the men around you will be that you have fallen into childhood.
Sandals
It would seem impossible in principle to wear sandals (the most summer shoes along with sandals and flip-flops, which we will discuss below) with socks, but Russian “fashionistas” still manage to use this combination. Would you say that world catwalks have offered us this option more than once or twice? We agree, but not with the nylon socks from the “five pieces for 100 rubles” series bought on trains near Moscow!
And it’s better not to take risks by trying to warm yourself up through looks involving sandals and coarse knitted socks - everywhere except on the catwalks, it looks strange and inappropriate. Sandals are for bare feet, bare feet are for sandals. This rule must be remembered like a multiplication table.
Moccasins
Another rule for the fashion “multiplication table” is that moccasins are not worn with socks, even on the catwalk. Not because it seems unaesthetic, but because these shoes were, in principle, designed to be worn on bare feet.
This is why real, “correct” moccasins are made from soft suede (which is why the price for them cannot be small by default) - they should be comfortable enough to be on your feet all day without remembering what they are wearing. feet are shod. Or to silently sneak up on the enemy, like the Indians who invented moccasins did ☺
Loafers (loafers)
Loafers - the favorite footwear of preppy style fans - have long become classics. They can be found in every fashionista’s wardrobe - with or without decorative details, made of regular leather and patent leather, with traditional soles or rough “tractor” soles. However, it doesn’t matter what exactly your loafers look like - the main thing is to remember that you also need to wear them without socks.
It is also better to avoid the combination of loafers and tights - at best you will look like a schoolgirl (depending on the other components of the image), at worst - like Miss Marple. We recommend wearing loafers with leather shorts and sweaters (sweatshirts), under which you can safely wear a denim shirt, or with short dresses. It is better not to abuse long hemlines.
Pumps
Pumps - the main footwear of a basic wardrobe - are also worn without socks. Socks (but again, not nylon “masterpieces”) are acceptable only if retro images are carefully copied for theme parties and photo shoots. In other cases, socks with shoes still look disharmonious.
But owners of black pumps can take revenge with the help of transparent black tights in the fall - men find this combination very, very seductive. However, do not forget that a mix of light pumps and dark tights is another fashionable taboo.
Sandals and flip flops
The situation here is the same as with sandals - summer shoes were clearly not invented to be worn with socks. This is especially true in light of the most fashionable sandals of this season - Birkenstocks. It’s better not to even imagine how creepy they will look in a duet with nylon socks.
We think there is no need to explain further about flip-flops, but something about these shoes is still worth mentioning. Flip-flops are intended for the beach and pool - wearing them in the city is considered bad manners.
Open Toe Ankle Boots
This model is more suitable for spring, summer and autumn, and since it exposes your toes, it doesn't imply anything other than a perfect pedicure.
Sleepers
Sleepers were once part of the loungewear of British aristocrats. Now times have changed, but the rules for wearing them still exclude socks. In general, the answers to the question “what to wear with” are similar to the story with loafers.
Tights under sleepers are also unacceptable.
Mules and clogs
Mules - mules with heels - have triumphantly “burst” into the catwalk shows of every second fashion house this season. It is unlikely that their creators even imagine that such a shoe model can be worn on socks, but in Russia this is not possible.
Here is a girl wrapped in a scarf-collar, a hat under the hood, her hands in thick knit gloves, and her jeans are rolled up so that her bare ankles are visible! But here is a guy in a fashionable down jacket with fur, sneakers on his feet and... the same thing - bare ankles... What is this? New walruses, protest movement, boycott of the hosiery industry, cult?
NEITHER SNOW OR WIND WILL PASS A HIPSTER
- Girl, aren’t you cold? - I address a passenger of about 25 years old on the subway. - Your legs are bare.
Not cold. Here I have to walk two steps from Petrovsky Park to Dynamo.
- Is this fashion?
Don't know. All my friends walk like this. Both boys and girls.
There is no encouragement for such appearance on social networks. They say it's ridiculous. There are suspicions that schoolchildren leave the house in socks, but when they go around the corner, they take them off - this is how teenagers used to pull off their hats in winter. And adults are even thinking about creating a volunteer movement and handing out warm socks at metro exits.
I decide to check: maybe it’s not so cold? I take out bright sneakers and roll up my skinny jeans twice - ready. And although I changed my shoes on the subway, even there, in the warmth, I feel an unpleasant chill. A girl sits opposite me, also with bare ankles. Obviously, I'm the only one with discomfort.
BEAUTY DOES NOT REQUIRE SACRIFICE
Boots in the bag, me in sneakers - I went home like that. After a couple of meters I realized that I was speeding up my pace and thinking only about the unbearable cold. Running into the apartment, she quickly dipped her feet into the warm water. While the red ankles were coming to their senses, I called stylist and image maker Vika Mayorova.
- Are bare ankles really fashionable or a part of hipster life?
Fashionable. The trick is a beautiful ankle and the visual feeling that the leg is longer and slimmer,” Vika answered. - But going out in rolled-up jeans in the cold is madness. This fashion is more likely for people driving who use parking. So it's fashionable when you have the opportunity not to freeze.
“AND I AM SO COOL - JUST OUT OF THE CAR"
It's not just girls who are fashionable.
Guys choose rolled up jeans and low socks, it seems to me, to show: “I just ran out of the car” or “I’m a man and I don’t freeze even at minus 20 degrees,” suggests stylist Vika Mayorova.
According to style expert Alexander Belov, the fashion for shortened men's trousers has been observed for several years.
But fashion is dictated in Italy and France, where there are no frosts of minus 20, as in Russia. Fashionistas want to be trendy and look at photos from fashion shows. And they reach the point of absurdity. It is better to use cropped trousers or roll up jeans in the summer. You also need to distinguish when at a show, cropped trousers are really offered as a trend or the designer wants the shoes he is presenting to be better visible.
- Is this fashion relevant in winter among men in Russian show business?
I haven't seen anyone walk like that. It's cold.
The long-awaited summer and, finally, for several months you won’t have to think about heavy, bulky clothes. And of course, summer shoes are light and comfortable. But here's the catch: what to do with the socks? A very common question among men is whether it is possible to wear sneakers without socks.
Is it possible to wear sneakers without socks: pros and cons
There are several types of men's summer shoes that not only can, but also should be worn without socks. But what to do with sneakers? Do you wear socks under sneakers in the summer? Here opinions are completely divided.
On the one hand, recently there has been a tendency that men do not need to wear socks even under their shoes in the summer. Adherents of the opinion that “if fashion demands it, then they wear horns” quickly picked up this fashionable novelty, enjoy using it and fiercely defend this style. Wear sneakers on bare feet.
Men of more conservative views do not support such an idea and consider it simply in bad taste. They have no idea how to wear shoes without socks if there are certain rules of etiquette, and they will never adhere to this idea.
But most of the protests against wearing sneakers without socks come from practical reasons:
- Some people simply don’t feel comfortable wearing sneakers barefoot. The leg feels uncomfortable.
- Without socks, sneakers often rub your feet.
- Feet are a very intense sweating part of the body, especially in summer. Without socks, sneakers absorb sweat directly, which causes unpleasant odor in shoes and the feet themselves. The only way out then is to wash your sneakers, but you won’t, you wash them every day. Socks, especially those made from natural fibers, become a barrier between sweaty feet and sneakers. They absorb moisture, protecting shoes from becoming soaked with sweat. And socks can be changed and washed even several times a day.
Which socks to choose
If you are still a supporter of wearing socks under sneakers, then you need to understand the question of which socks are better.
As for the style of socks, there are three main types:
- Regular socks - with regular top length.
- Sports short socks - with a short top, to the ankle.
- Invisible socks, or so-called undersocks.
Cropped socks and bobby pins are a salvation for those who don’t want to stray from the latest fashion trends, but can’t wear sneakers without socks.
As for the material from which the socks are made, they can be made of natural fibers or synthetic.
Socks made from natural materials - wool, cotton, linen - breathe better and absorb moisture well, so from a hygiene point of view, such socks are better suited for wearing with sports shoes.
Synthetic socks are stronger and wear better, but they do not absorb moisture well, so the foot remains wet, which does not prevent unpleasant odors.
How to combine clothes, sneakers, socks
Whether to wear sneakers with or without socks depends not only on the person’s desire, but also on what clothes they are wearing with them.
With a tracksuit and jeans, everything is simple: regular socks, plain or with patterns in a sports style, and sneakers are the traditional option.
If you want to wear sneakers, jeans or trousers without socks, then stylists advise turning up the hem of the trouser leg a little.
With socks and breeches, shorts, Bermudas, the situation is without options - just without socks. If you can't wear sneakers on bare feet, then cropped socks and invisible socks can help you.
Why is there no clear answer - yes, wear sneakers and socks, or no, don’t wear them? Nowadays fashion is very democratic and does not adhere to strict rules. There is a focus on the stylishness of the image, harmony between clothing and the inner world of a person. It is very fashionable to combine different styles in one image, often completely opposite ones, which were previously considered impossible to combine.
Video on the topic of the article
IStock/ Image Source Today, men really care about their appearance, which is why they are increasingly taking a keen interest in fashion and trends. But if it’s not difficult to combine a shirt and trousers correctly, then with such details of the image as shoes and accessories, the situation is much worse! Their selection requires some knowledge and good taste.
Sandals
In general, according to the rules of etiquette, men should not appear in the city in open sandals, the only exception being seaside resorts. But every day on the streets we see hundreds of examples of violation of this rule, which means that sandals in the city are more the norm than bad manners.
If you are not a victim of fashion, then it is better to do without socks. Fashionistas wear socks that match their shoes and never pull the elastic of the sock high, lowering it halfway (in combination with short trousers or shorts).
Espadrilles
Moccasins
Topsiders
Mules
The most ancient type of footwear comes from the East - leather slippers without heels. Interest in them was renewed in the 70s and still continues today, thanks to fashion brands such as Gucci and Balenciaga. Mules today are considered primarily leisure shoes; the lack of a heel prevents them from being worn with socks.
Loafers
Oxfords
Sneakers
Monkey
Sneakers
Alexandre Mattiussi With sports closed shoes, everything is simpler - here the chance of making a fashion mistake is minimal. Wear high-top sneakers with sports socks, and short sneakers with cropped socks accordingly.
