What is it with geeky guys and black sneakers, and probably black jeans? It just seems to fit in with the uncombed/unwashed hair and the pallor that comes only from a good solid year’s worth of sunless video game playing/comic book reading.
I rarely if ever wear jeans anymore since my work has me in khakis and I tend to wear them all the time now, but back in my jeans wearin’ days, I owned a few pairs of black jeans. They just looked a little nicer with some of my shirts than blue jeans did and a little more… perhaps not formal, but less casual than blue jeans. With them I wore black sneakers since white sneakers with black jeans is a bit much. Plus, black sneakers for some reason don’t seem to have to be adorned with Nike symbols and the like to be wearable. Therefore, a pair of black sneakers that look like every other pair of black sneakers in the world cost me all of $12 at Kmart and have lasted me two years until they finally got a hole in one toe forcing them down to extreme casual use.
Oh, and for the record, my hair is always washed and combed and my job keeps me outside a lot so I have quite the tan going on my arms and face (and a nasty sunburn on the rest of my torso from canoeing 12 miles without a shirt on). I probably am a geek though 
What’s wrong with black jeans and shoes? My personal faves. 3 pears of them and a blue and a pleather. Also have black shoes. I’m probably a minority, but I find pale women alot more attractive then tanned.
Black sneakers, check. Black jeans, check. Black shirt, also check. Clean (and brushed) hair, slight tan, vigorous hobbies, check, check, check.
I freely (even proudly) claim the title of “Geek”. So much for that stereotype. 
This very pale redhead thanks you.
I find that guys in white sneakers are much worse than guys in black ones.
I find white sneakers to be geeky. I like my black sneakers, and my grey merrells. I like my black jeans and pants, but i still wear kakhi pants sometimes, even blue jeans. Yes, my hair is unkempt, washed every day, but i don’t bother to brush or comb it, doesn’t do any good.
Yuck, white sneakers? I think that’s appalling. Now, pale skinned redheads, that’s incredibly appetizing…
From your picture, Soul, you wouldn’t really be able to brush your hair if you wanted to, wouldja?
I don’t mind black sneakers or jeans, it’s those damn trenchcoats… Especially here in California. Sorry, no need for that! Wearing a trenchcoat in the summer, in CA, is the ultimate geekiness!
Black sneakers enhance the look of my unwashed mullet.
Hmmmm. I suppose the mental image of a guy in high-water black jeans, white socks and black sneakers does bring back memories of some nerdy-types I went to school with.
But I love my canvas Converse high-tops, so I don’t have much room to talk. Talk about geeky. Not a lot of supermodels sport those.
sigh
oh God. Black socks. :shudder:
[sings]
Geeks in black sneakers,
Never reaching the end
E-mails I’ve written,
Never meaning to send.
(orchestral cresendo)
For I love UNIX
Oh how I love UNIX!!!
(continues)
Oh I don’t know…
I really like geeks. I thought that there are at times trends in which the geek-look is all the rage.
I still like geeks even when it’s not fashionable.
And as for black socks…
Those are frumpy. Frumpiness is different than geekiness, but if you pull it off properly, frumpy can be as irresistable as geekiness.
I once had gasp IMPURE THOUGHTS!!! about a male friend of mine while he was wearing brown shorts and black socks pulled up to his knees.
I forgot to add-
He was of course, wearing black sneakers.
LOL Da Ace.
soulsling
A cute man in uniform that likes pale redheads, just my type.
Helloooooooooooo Nurse!
How Ya DOIN’ lunasea?
Hey what’s wrong with black socks? The only color socks I own are black socks. Stuck habit from the army. GI socks are all black. They were really comfortable too, so I stuck with buying just those.
…and yeah Demo, that’s kinda the idea.
Well, I’ve always worn black jeans instead of brown, but usually it’s because I like to pull off a street-formal type of look a lot of the time (Black jeans, black dress shirt, dark purple and black double breasted jacket), and they’re more appropriate for goth clubs (can’t/wont afford leather). As for sneakers, I usually wear tall, black, steel toed boots. The sneakers I have are only worn for basketball.
Pale redheads good… then, any redheads good.
I have some black jeans, some dark blue, some stonewashed.
I have white sneakers. I tried wearing black ones for a while. Problem is they were just never as comfortable as the white ones.
I wear white athletic socks with them. White athletic socks belong with sneakers, no matter what color pants you’re wearing. So there.
Soulsling said:
Is that “pale-skinned redheads” or “pale, skinned redheads”?
I’m rather fond of the pale look, myself. Knowing about sun causing cancer, and how tanning ages the skin and makes it leathery, I’ll take the pale, soft-skinned ones.
What is wrong with black shoes? I don’t get it. I do not own a pair of black jeans, but I own a few pair of black BDUs. I also have a few pair of khaki BDUs and multiple pairs of blue jeans. Black shoes go with everything. Plus, white shoes get very dirty very fast. Even after a month, white shoes are noticeably dirty.
What is the problem with black shoes? Am I missing something? All the shoes I buy, whether running shoe, football cleats, Nike sneakers, boots (not cowboy boots), high tops, dress shoes… they are all black. Or at least mainly black.
I would never waste money on white shoes. I do not even like the way they look. Let me guess, I bet you wear a white belt too? YIKES!
The only shoes I own that are not mainly black are a pair of kahki dress shoes. That’s it. I have never heard of this black shoes= geek before.
Where have all you lovers of pale redheads been my whole life?
::thinking about soulsling in nothing but those black socks::
umm, gotta go