# Please! Take those white socks off when wearing Tevas; or I'll cut your feet off!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 25, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543 "2007-05-25T21:32:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/1 "2007-05-25T21:32:32Z")
Ok, no where in the Teva-wearing training manual does it say that you can wear white socks and tevas!
Wool socks under jeans with Birkenstocks in Autumn…maybe. But Never, ever white socks pulled up and tevas. It just doesn’t work. It’s ok if you never do it again, but please, for the love of OG and everything decent, take off the white socks, and tevas. Or just wear sneakers with your socks.
So please: conform to the standards of propriety and never wear those white socks under your tevas ever again.
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/2 "2007-05-25T21:37:02Z")
What about ankle-high black socks with black Tevas? (I am starting a new trend)
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/3 "2007-05-25T21:43:18Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
What about ankle-high black socks with black Tevas? (I am starting a new trend)
[/QUOTE]
No. No, and no.
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/4 "2007-05-25T21:46:36Z")
What **Zsofia** said.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/5 "2007-05-25T21:51:37Z")
Bite me.
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/6 "2007-05-25T21:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF]
Bite me.
[/QUOTE]
In know they do things a little differently in San Francisco, but even by a Vermonter’s standards…it’s wrong.
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### Author:  [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/7 "2007-05-25T21:55:27Z")
Tevas look like ass, with or without socks.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/8 "2007-05-25T22:07:31Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#):
>
> Never, ever white socks pulled up and tevas.
In fact, never, ever white socks pulled up with any kind of sandals. (Okay, if you’re a girl under 10 with lacy white knee socks and white or pink leather sandals, then maybe.)
The calf-length white crew sock just doesn’t work with sandals. (Nor does it work with shorts, as a rule. Sandals, high white crew socks and shorts are the fashion trifecta.)
If you like a little padding under your tevas, try [sport sandal socks](http://www.amazingsocks.com/web-pid-507-Bridgedale-Sandal-Sock-item.htm) designed for the purpose. You’ll look sporty and athletic instead of just terminally dorky.
Oh, and a pre-emptive “fuck you” to all the offenderati who will come in whining that they can wear whatever they want and why should they care what we think. This is a rant about aesthetics, not ethics, and other people’s clothing is part of the aesthetic landscape that we’re free to critique anonymously and privately. If you don’t care whether what you wear looks dorky, then by all means wear it, and just ignore us petty-minded fastidious types over here venting about how awful we find it.
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/9 "2007-05-25T22:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
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Oh, and a pre-emptive “fuck you” to all the offenderati who will come in whining that they can wear whatever they want and why should they care what we think. This is a rant about aesthetics, not ethics, and other people’s clothing is part of the aesthetic landscape that we’re free to critique anonymously and privately. If you don’t care whether what you wear looks dorky, then by all means wear it, and just ignore us petty-minded fastidious types over here venting about how awful we find it.
[/QUOTE]
Nice, I could not have said it any better.
Oh and to jump on my own band wagon again:
Tevas were so 90’s get Keens instead. \*
[sup]I’m not a rep. I swear[/sup] ;D
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/10 "2007-05-25T22:20:51Z")
I’m sorry, Must have been in my cave too long. What are Tevas? If sandals, only black socks are right with them.
(hides in closet)
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/11 "2007-05-25T22:20:55Z")
I find that [bicycling socks](http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&major=4&minor=8&description=Socks+Equipe+Low+Cut&vendorCode=PEARL) give a little comfort under a pair of sandals and minimize the dorkosity. They also wick away foot sweat on a hot day very efficiently, as they are meant to do.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/12 "2007-05-25T22:21:16Z")
I was gonna just ask people to stop wearing Tevas at all, but that’s too much to ask, I suppose. So, it is okay to wear socks with them, per \*\* Kimstu’s\*\* example; just not white, right?
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/13 "2007-05-25T22:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
If you don’t care whether what you wear looks dorky, then by all means wear it, and just ignore us petty-minded fastidious types over here venting about how awful we find it.
[/QUOTE]
I have frequently found it helpful to carry smelling salts when I appear in public, so as to avoid leaving a trail of stunned aesthetes wheresoever I go.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/14 "2007-05-25T22:23:33Z")
> [@Frank](#):
>
> I have frequently found it helpful to carry smelling salts when I appear in public, so as to avoid leaving a trail of stunned aesthetes wheresoever I go.
See, now _that’s_ thoughtful.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/15 "2007-05-25T22:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
If you like a little padding under your tevas, try [sport sandal socks](http://www.amazingsocks.com/web-pid-507-Bridgedale-Sandal-Sock-item.htm) designed for the purpose. You’ll look sporty and athletic instead of just terminally dorky.
[/QUOTE]
I don’t get it. I mean, that sock you just linked to is as terminally dorky as white socks with sandals. [Any Kind of] socks + [Any Kind Of] sandals = very bad.
I’ve noticed that a lot of grad students wear socks with sandals and frankly, it blows my mind. Perhaps that’s why I’ll never get a PhD. ☹
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/16 "2007-05-25T22:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
If you like a little padding under your tevas, try [sport sandal socks](http://www.amazingsocks.com/web-pid-507-Bridgedale-Sandal-Sock-item.htm) designed for the purpose. You’ll look sporty and athletic instead of just terminally dorky.
[/QUOTE]
Sporty? Those things scream, “Everyone, look at me, the vapid suburbanite asshole!”
The next purchase is one of [these](http://www.hootride.com/wp-content/_toyota_fj_cruiser.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/17 "2007-05-25T22:37:38Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
Sporty? Those things scream, “Everyone, look at me, the vapid suburbanite asshole!”
The next purchase is one of [these](http://www.hootride.com/wp-content/_toyota_fj_cruiser.jpg).
[/QUOTE]
:eek: Shit, I like the FJ…
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### Author:  [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/18 "2007-05-25T22:38:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu]
This is a rant about aesthetics, not ethics…
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
Sporty? Those things scream, “Everyone, look at me, the vapid suburbanite asshole!”
The next purchase is one of [these](http://www.hootride.com/wp-content/_toyota_fj_cruiser.jpg).
[/QUOTE]
You sure about that, **Kimstu**? 😉
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/19 "2007-05-25T22:40:55Z")
You’ll pry my rainbow-striped glove-socks \*cum \*Tevas from my cold, dead feet.
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### Author:  [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-take-those-white-socks-off-when-wearing-tevas-or-ill-cut-your-feet-off/405543/20 "2007-05-25T22:46:29Z")
I agree with **Ignatz**. What are tevas?
I googled and found these shoes, among others. You would wear socks with these shoes?
[Women’s Teva Trail Running shoes](http://www.teva.com/productslist.aspx?g=w&categoryid=340&page=1)
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