### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/25 "2005-01-16T19:19:47Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> What do you wear with your shorts??? Do you actually pull those longe tube socks up to your knees? Do they have those stripes on them?
Just to clear up a misconception, I don’t wear tube socks. I’m not sure what they’re called, but they look kinda like tube socks but are shaped like feet. You know, they have a defined heel and bend in the middle. They’re pretty “longe”, but don’t come anywhere near my knees. Stripes? No, but my last ones did.
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/26 "2005-01-16T19:26:53Z")
> [@grettle](#):
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> Good enough to get the to a hairdresser? I hate to break it to you, but there are several lines of men’s hair products for just this look. But the men who use them probably wear ankle socks. And are \ stylish! 😃
Go ahead and break it to me Babe.
From [dick.com](http://dick.com)
> [@](#):
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> tongue-in-cheek
>
> adj : cleverly amusing in tone; “a bantering tone”; “facetious remarks”; “tongue-in-cheek advice” [syn: bantering, facetious] adv 1: in a bantering fashion; “he spoke to her banteringly” [syn: banteringly] 2: not seriously; “I meant it facetiously” [syn: facetiously, jokingly]
😛
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/27 "2005-01-16T23:53:51Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#):
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> My wife makes sport of men who wear these out in public. She calls 'em _pussy socks_. Make of that what you will.
I only wear ankle socks. Well, to be fair, I own about three pairs of long socks, which I use for camping and skiing, but all the others end just north of my ankles. Like someone else said- why, do you need to keep your calves warm? If you wear tube socks to keep your calves warm, while I’m tough enough to brave the cold, doesn’t that make _you_ the pussy? 🙂
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/28 "2005-01-17T00:13:59Z")
_Not Tube Socks_. Damn! There _are_ other types of socks.
But I didn’t mean ankle socks in the OP, I meant [these puppies](http://hanes.com/mens/F-SO-1906.jsp). They’re like the ones girls wear with their Keds. Ankle socks go a lot higher, and have been around for a long time.
Dang pantywaists.
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/29 "2005-01-17T00:23:08Z")
Nope, I don’t wear those. I have a similar kind of sock, but they have a little flap on the back of the ankle so the back of my shoe doesn’t rub against my tender skin. What will they think of next?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/30 "2005-01-17T00:28:46Z")
> [@mangeorgeI didn't mean ankle socks in the OP](#):
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> ([http://hanes.com/mens/F-SO-1906.jsp](http://hanes.com/mens/F-SO-1906.jsp)). They’re like the ones girls wear with their Keds. Ankle socks go a lot higher, and have been around for a long time.
Ah. Those. Someone bought me a package of those for Christmas '03 and I wound throwing them away. I hated them.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/31 "2005-01-17T00:29:51Z")
How the hell did that coding get screwed up? I didn’t touch it.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/32 "2005-01-17T00:32:25Z")
> [@Lightnin'](#):
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> I only wear ankle socks. Well, to be fair, I own about three pairs of long socks, which I use for camping and skiing, but all the others end just north of my ankles. Like someone else said- why, do you need to keep your calves warm? If you wear tube socks to keep your calves warm, while I’m tough enough to brave the cold, doesn’t that make _you_ the pussy? 🙂
The definition of the type of socks being discussed seems to have been misinterpreted. I wear ankle socks like yours. We’re talking about little, white, foot-shaped things that don’t even come up to the top of your shoes. Cheerleaders wear them, some of them have a pom-pom on the back. They just look stupid on men, in my humblest of opinions. I don’t think that makes me a pussy in the slightest.
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/33 "2005-01-17T00:48:54Z")
Jeeze!
I’m sorry. I mis-spoke right out of the gates.
Yes, I meant the ones like cheerleaders wear, with or without little pompoms.
I _didn’t_ mean the socks that come up over the ankles.
My daughter told me that some jewelery makers are trying to push gold anklets (the jewelery) for men.
Now I’ll take some of that! 😉
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/34 "2005-01-17T00:54:40Z")
Yeah, I was thinking about the cheerleader-y ones, and I have seen guys wear them, and I still think they’re foofy.
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/35 "2005-01-17T00:57:58Z")
> [@mangeorge](#):
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> _Not Tube Socks_. Damn! There _are_ other types of socks.
> But I didn’t mean ankle socks in the OP, I meant [these puppies](http://hanes.com/mens/F-SO-1906.jsp). They’re like the ones girls wear with their Keds. Ankle socks go a lot higher, and have been around for a long time.
> Dang pantywaists.
These are the ones my husband wears, and his brother, and his father.
And let me tell you, you’d have to have some mega huevos to call any of those men “_pussies_”… I’m a pretty tall girl, and I feel very safe walking around with those three on a dark night (okay, forget the fact that I live in Ballard for a moment! 😉 ), despite the girly socks.
Granted, I _did_ think they were funny. Now I wear them. But I’m a girl. 😃
But I do see a lot of men around here wearing them. From the little weenies to the goth guys to the rich kids to the big, hulking jock men. Maybe it’s regional?
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/36 "2005-01-17T01:10:20Z")
Neah.
Oh, you mean in _per_son? 😉
:eek:
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/37 "2005-01-17T01:16:16Z")
OK, so we’re talking about sox designed to make it look like you’re not wearing _any_ sox. This may make sense for a varsity sprinter who wants to cut down on wind resistance to the minimum, but for us average slobs, really…
OK, so make your damn fashion statement, I’ll wear sox that look like I’m wearing sox, and if I’m wearing a style that calls for no sox I just will not wear them. Oh, and my tousled hair? Means it was &^%$# windy outside, not that I applied any “product”.
BTW, I own a limited amount of ver-the-calf socks, as the frequency with which I am called upon to be sitting down as a panelist, on a dais in front of an audience, and therefore must make sure I do not bare any leg, makes it possible to limit things that way. They will be, though, getting a workout this coming weekend as I’ll be in New York on business just in time for a cold snap, so you can bet that under my suit I’ll be packing all sorts of insulating layers (so what if I look 20 lbs overweight, style w/o comfort is masochism)
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/38 "2005-01-17T01:17:27Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#):
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> These are the ones my husband wears, and his brother, and his father.
>
> And let me tell you, you’d have to have some mega huevos to call any of those men “_pussies_”… I’m a pretty tall girl, and I feel very safe walking around with those three on a dark night (okay, forget the fact that I live in Ballard for a moment! 😉 ), despite the girly socks.
>
> Granted, I _did_ think they were funny. Now I wear them. But I’m a girl. 😃
>
> But I do see a lot of men around here wearing them. From the little weenies to the goth guys to the rich kids to the big, hulking jock men. Maybe it’s regional?
I do hope you realize that there _are_ big , hulking weenies and little jock men. Right?
I assure you, there are a lot of men around here liberated enough to wear them sissy socks. A _lot_. There are a few who wear dresses.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/39 "2005-01-17T01:18:16Z")
One brand of these socks that women wear is **Peds**.
Ever been to Wal-Mart? There are signs by the road in front of the store that say “PEDS XING”. I’ve always hoped to see a bunch of little white socks writing the leter X all over the place, but I guess I haven’t been there at the right time of day.
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### Author:  [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankle-socks-for-men/284961/40 "2005-01-17T01:34:37Z")
> [@Unclviny](#):
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> My usual mode of dress when I am home is Shorts, T-shirt, Ankle Socks, Sandals and a Fanny Pack.
> Feel free to make fun of this heavily armed (hence the Fanny Pack) 6"1" 305 lb. oil rig worker whenever you think that you are ready.
You wear socks with sandals? Unless they are Japanese ankle socks with the separation between the big toe and the others, then consider yourself seriously mocked…
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