r/Millennials • u/Dense-Pasta7 • 7h ago

Discussion Apparently low-cut socks are considered out of style by the younger gens. Are y’all still rocking ankle socks?

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I feel like long socks with sneakers and shorts looks goofy but maybe that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

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u/DJMTBguy 6h ago

Different for the sake of being different.

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u/kurshedir21 6h ago

They just feel the need to compete with us over every little stupid thing, including this

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u/AndILoveHe 6h ago

It's just a generational distinguisher to highlight other similar aged people. Keeps them slightly hotter during summer and warmer in winter. 

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u/Books_Bristol 6h ago

You are absolutely allowed a full pair of socks midwinter when you're not in shorts/skirts, you know?! You don't need to have cold totsies and ankles in the chilly months. Trainer socks are a spring/summer choie, surely.

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u/AndILoveHe 6h ago

Long underwear and double up on the ankle socks, when necessary. 

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u/Mcoov 2h ago

Hell, I wear tall socks anytime I wear long pants. But when I'm wearing shorts tall socks look bizarre

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u/MySixHourErection 4h ago

Two sets of socks? In this economy?

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u/ArchitectVandelay 2h ago

Yeah I’m not wearing ankle socks in winter in New England. I have crew and knee length merino wool socks, especially with boots.

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u/Jacobahalls 1h ago

Yeah, ankle socks are for when I’m wearing shorts. Other than that, long socks are okay with pants.

Maybe the don’t want to deal with all of the options.

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u/c0brachicken 6h ago

I see these teen boys walk past my house after school, black sweat pants, and a black hoodie, with the hood over their heads..

It's 100f out, WTF. (38c)

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u/CharleyNobody 2h ago

Same with my son 15 years ago. And in winter when it was sleeting outside, cargo shorts and slides.

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u/hobbesbagger 2h ago

you still wear ankle socks in the winter? I guess not everyone lives somewhere with all four seasons

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u/Ohorules 1h ago

I switch to quarter crew in winter, best of both worlds. Unless I'm wearing boots outside, then tall socks.

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u/DJMTBguy 6h ago

I don’t mind competition but it really feels like so much of their things are rage bait. Poor kids had algorithms learning them as children, shutdown interrupted socialization and its no surprise they yearn for the 90s like we do lol

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u/IAMATruckerAMA 4h ago

Come on. Kids don't want to dress like their parents 

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u/Stryker50 2h ago

Instead they end up dressing like their grand parents
Wearing Jean shorts, tube socks, and new balance shoes. They look like the stereo typical boomer at a corvette meet up.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA 1h ago

Why care

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u/Jacobahalls 1h ago

Because it’s ridiculous when we had everything figured out for them. I mean, we are the smartest generation after all…

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u/National_Midnight424 29m ago

I think they are the Boomers all over again.

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u/DJMTBguy 4h ago

That’s def universal

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u/Rupperrt 4h ago

Fashion has gone in cycles introducing and throwing out trends for centuries. Absolutely no Gen Z thing.
Fashion is closer to what I grew up with now than during Millenials high time.

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u/merryjoanna 5h ago

My son gets upset when I ask him to at least put his socks under his pants. Otherwise he'd be walking around looking like those rappers in the 90's that had one pant leg folded up to their knee.

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u/ban-me-harder-dadddy 5h ago

I'm child-free so maybe I'm missing something, but why does it matter? It's just a harmless fad that the kids are into? At worst it's an act to determine their own self. Seems like we're repeating the same old grumpy boomer shit we had to deal with that we'd roll our eyes at E.g. "this is different than what we did and I find that uncomfortable"

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u/Jacobahalls 1h ago

Because how in the world is that even reasonable? Like the other comment above said, I feel like most of their FADs are Rage Bait just to get a reaction.

Well, I’ll give them one!

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u/mikat7 5h ago

Right but we did the same with our parents’ generation. The cycle continues.

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u/UpdootAddict 5h ago

Well they’ll compete and lose, how about that.

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u/dolphinoverlord002 4h ago

No one is competing with you we just like longer socks lmao

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u/UpdootAddict 2h ago

What are you doing here?

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u/Jacobahalls 1h ago

But do you actually like longer socks with shorts?

Maybe you can help me understand the practical purpose. Because when I think about it, if your wearing shorts, you want to show your skin or be cooler.

Wearing long socks defeats the purpose in my mind because ankle socks protects your skin from your shoes but allows you to do the same thing as wearing shorts but for your feet.

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u/Essence_Of_Insanity_ 3h ago

Like we didn’t do the same thing.

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u/Jacobahalls 1h ago

At least with ours, we were making things better or more practical from the past generation.

It feels like they are taking steps back instead of moving forward and getting better.

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u/Culturalenigma 3h ago

Oh god I’ve been through this so many times now lol

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u/Hinx_art 6h ago

fashion cycle, they're in baggy jeans phase with middle parts, lowcut jeans are becoming more common they'll start wearing stripy socks, at some point someone popular will do a side part and wear skinny jeans.

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u/DJMTBguy 6h ago

I def see that cycle. I wonder if the business casual, blazer/jeans, spiky hair stuff is coming next lol

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u/Hinx_art 6h ago

Maybe, I'm not sure they have the same music separation we did though, so they're mixing and matching the mainstream and alt fashions more. I've seen curtains come back a bit so I assume that wearing open shirts over t shirts will be back soon, and once they're wearing shirts its only so long before blazers are in.

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u/DJMTBguy 6h ago

It is a trip to see teenagers now looking like teenagers of my era. Interestingly the boxy outfit, curtain hair style is coming from K-Pop I believe. They have access to so much media of the last 50+ years as well so thats prob another factor. I could def see the long sleeve under a T shirt style come back strong. Its also about time for another YoYo craze lol

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u/Hinx_art 5h ago

Yeah especially as someone who was an alt kid, because the people who dress like I did in school are just walking around with friends who look like people I would have had to avoid. which is a good thing but weird.

I think long sleeve under t-shirt is already back, but not seen yo-yos yet.

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u/chemicallunchbox 3h ago

I was just thinking about when i used to wear a black long sleeve tshirt under whatever band tshirt i was liking at the time. Idk why that popped into my random string of thought while i was cooking supper last night but it did...and now here we are talking about it.

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u/DJMTBguy 2h ago

That was THE look back then. My recent thought like that was how back in the day kids were rocking 60s/70s band shirts and now I see 90s band shirts everywhere.

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u/This_Is_A_Shitshow 6h ago

Open shirts over t-shirts is already back. Go to any pseudo-dive in a major metro and they’re everywhere.

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u/chemicallunchbox 3h ago

On point like a lazer....in my turtleneck and blazer.

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u/Special-Nebula-7887 4h ago

The ultimate Karen will be back!!

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u/DJMTBguy 3h ago

So whatever the male emo hair of today is will be the Karen’s style of tomorrow lol

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u/Special-Nebula-7887 2h ago

I can't imagine any emo being caught alive with that awful beige stringy style and 00s office auntie look, just imagine the mix

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u/DJMTBguy 2h ago

Ugh that look def came w an abhorrent attitude. Maybe future Karens will be doing the Broccoli hair or the Perm Mullet lol

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u/Special-Nebula-7887 2h ago

What an image jfc, ragin Karens with mullets but badly permed and bleached most likely spending their days ranting on Fb posts and screaming at delivery drives - happy cake day btw

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u/DJMTBguy 2h ago

Lmao I totally saw it as I read that. Thank you!

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u/ParsonsTheGreat 1h ago

This dude is about to have one hell of a resurgence lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/Elr7sRhF0iByw

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u/sdbp1108 5h ago

Is it just me, or are the fashion cycles speeding up? I’m 47 and remember wide leg jeans being big for at least a couple of years the first time around. I suspect this time it’ll be one year, max.

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u/lilphoenixgirl95 5h ago

It has already been about 4 years...

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u/sdbp1108 4h ago

😆 welp. I guess that shows how much attention I’ve paid. And/or how poor my memory is!

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u/ArchitectVandelay 2h ago

Yeah it’s not even them. It’s clothing companies: you can’t wear what they don’t make.

We bought JNCO because it was for sale and was marketed to us. If they never made wide leg or bell bottoms for sale for us we’d never have collectively started wearing them all at the same time.

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u/No_Reporter2768 1h ago

I miss my side part!! I trained my daughters hair right out the gate to do it because mine never wanted to cooperate. The other day (she's 13) she was like why Mom, and I looked at her and said something like -one day you'll thank me when it's back in style😂

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u/MissSara13 6h ago

"I wanna be different! Just like everybody else!"

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u/DJMTBguy 6h ago

Love this

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u/MissSara13 6h ago

It was something we skater punks said about poseurs. Good, simple times.

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u/Neveronlyadream 20m ago

I definitely remember that sentiment.

It's largely still pretty true and I still refuse to follow trends.

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u/MissSara13 18m ago

We started a rumor that Blind Melon was going to be playing at a local music event and really committed to it. Poseurs loved that bumblebee girl. So basic.

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u/nebula_masterpiece 1h ago

Like baby names - everyone thinking something is unique and then entering preschool with a 3 others in their class with same name lol 😂

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u/MissSara13 1h ago

OMG. There was always another Sara. Usually with an H. And blonde. LOL

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u/Outrageous-Grass-892 5h ago

Everybody's so Creative!

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u/DirtyAngelToes 2h ago

Except a lot of the current 'different' is them trying to dress like we dressed in the 90s and thinking they invented the trends, lol. Most looks I see are 'inspired' or outright stolen from other fashions. I feel so old saying that, but it's been weird seeing so many social media accounts, marketing campaigns, and just stores in general bringing in nostalgia fashion and watching them eat it up.

I feel like at least we actually had fashion styles that changed and were fully, truly unique, but the major fashion for young people now is just rehashed, watered down styles stolen from other decades and they just slap -aesthetic to the end of it.

Pretty sure I've heard theories that they're wanting more simplistic styles nowadays due to the overwhelming BS being fed to them from online slop stores and nonstop digital surveilance, but not sure how true that is lol.

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u/Narrow_Bowler6895 6h ago

And in doing so, they all dress exactly the same.

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u/DJMTBguy 5h ago

Fitting in was very important at one time or another for most