“Girly socks.”
oooooooooooooooooooooo:)
Simple: black shoes, (well boots technically – bad ankles, and you never know when rugged terrain will appear in an IT environment), black socks, black trousers, black shirt… and if cold, black jersey. (sweater?)
Not only colour co-ordinated, but corporate colours, and patriotic too. 
The company I work for has black and gold as corporate colours. Kiwis have a tendency (IME) towards lots of black clothing anyway – we like all black, we dress our sports teams in it*. Work had an “all black” dress day a while ago (during the America’s Cup races). I forgot about it, came in dressed normally and didn’t notice the slight extra amount of black in the office for some time.
*Co-worker got hassled in a Portland, OR gym once 'cos she was wearing a black cap with “All Blacks” embroided on it – the name of our national Rugby team. Someone seemed to think it was some sort of racist slogan. :smack:
For the record, and this is a Shrew Definite: NEVER match your socks with your shirt. It’s just…1985. Besides that, it breaks a body up into parts and will create the illusion of “chunks”. It is better to create straight lines that will make a body seem taller and slimmer. JMHO.
With that out of the way, allow me to be one of the people who matches socks with pants. Today I wore a black and white pinstriped top, black sailor-flared trousers, black trouser socks, and gorgeous red shoes. Yum. I love days like today when the look comes together just right. Had I worn red trouser socks, I would have looked diseased when the trousers swished as I walked. Looking diseased is not a look I aim for. I only wanted people to notice the pant and the shoe, not the leg underneath. A red trouser sock would have ruined the whole look.
I have brown shoes and black shoes that I wear to work. With whatever else I am wearing I wear black socks.
I figure, black matches everything right?
I can’t be bothered to have many different colors of socks lying around. Matching them all up after a wash would be a pain in the neck. I also don’t want to deal with the hassle of thinking about all this early in the morning when getting ready for work.
I just try to make mine match each other. If I cover that, the shoes and the pants can just deal.
Shoes.
{{says shoes :D}}
This reminds me of eons ago when I was a young technician in the Navy, working the mid shift. One of my shipmates came in one night having apparently dressed in the dark so as not to awaken his wife. His only non-regulation clothing was a pair of pink socks.
This guy was 6’5" and wore a size 16 shoe. Where did he find pink socks in his size?!?
yeah, they were probably white ones that got into a red load
I think guys should always wear those socks with fuzzy cats on them with those plastic google eyes. Think of how happy everyone would be then.
I disagree. Keeping the socks the same color with the pants gives me the illusion that the socks are a part of the pants. That would make me think the pants are somehow tucked into the shoes like a baseball uniform or something.
Changing the colors gives the impression of layers, which everyone knows the more clothes you have on the more money you have to spend on clothes and laundry and therefore more professional you look. 
-k