# Who wears socks more often: men or women? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622 "2020-05-28T20:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scarface54345](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@scarface54345](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scarface54345)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/1 "2020-05-28T20:23:32Z")
Who wears socks more often: men or women? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/2 "2020-05-28T22:15:11Z")
In my house it’s the men. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/3 "2020-05-29T00:28:03Z")
A great deal of women’s footwear isn’t enclosed shoes, while the footwear that men wear the vast majority of the time does consist of enclosed shoes. One wears socks with enclosed shoes, and otherwise, one generally doesn’t. So we guys wear a lot more socks. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/4 "2020-05-29T00:49:14Z")
I always wear socks because my feet get cold plus I hate wearing shoes while sockless. Women are almost universally barefoot these days. It’s men by a blowout margin. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/5 "2020-05-29T12:24:43Z")
In this household, my SIL and I always have socks, daughter and spousal unit don’t. We can’t even use the toddler as a tie-breaker because sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn’t. So I voter neither. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/6 "2020-05-29T14:41:24Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > One wears socks with enclosed shoes, Not me. I can’t stand socks. Generally, the only time I wear socks is when wearing boots. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/7 "2020-05-30T13:39:48Z")
It has to be women, surely? Even in summer loads of blokes wear trainers/sneakers with those mini socks or sports socks, whereas women are often in sandals even if they wear trainers in the winter. And it’s still rare for men to wear heels, Mary-Janes, or ballet shoes or all the other types of shoes women wear that I don’t really know the names of despite being female and wearing them, and women sometimes wear boots with tights instead of socks in cold weather. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wears-socks-more-often-men-or-women/854622/8 "2020-05-30T21:20:53Z")
I can’t imagine women wearing socks more often than men.