BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?

Subject: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:48 AM

I received a pair for my birthday a while back from a really good friend. However, I haven't worn them yet because I need to know: ARE they passe? Do they scream fashion? Is it OK to wear them with sandals and a brown suit? These are important questions that I hope people can help with. Serious responses only, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:50 AM

FYI, this is at least as important as those American, Canadian and British election threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:54 AM

They look lots like these.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:37 AM

Nothing wrong with them that I can see, Peace. Do they match your baby blue eyes?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:53 AM

I just checked. Yes, they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 03:27 AM

If anyone asks you just smile and say you're wearing them
a) for charity,

b) they were white but this pair got in with your jeans as you did the laundry,

c) it was dark when you got dressed and you didn't want to put the light on and disturb your dear wife

or d) because a very dear friend gave them to you and you want to keep his memory alive.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 03:53 AM

Good thinking, Liz. I'll add them to "I lost a bet."

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 04:04 AM

Dagnabbit - forgot that one!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: peregrina
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 04:38 AM

find an online converter for them!

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Darowyn
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 04:52 AM

To anyone who mentions the colour, you should explain, very earnestly and at far too great a length, that you wear them to increase your psychic sensibility, since the blue stimulates the base chakras, improving your empathy with your fellow human beings.
Then tell them to push off, you'll wear what you like and it's no concern of anyone else. Threats of violence could be added for dramatic effect, if the situation is suitable (the person is smaller than you, for example).
Cheers,
Dave, habitual wearer of red socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 04:59 AM

Dave, do they match your FOTLs? MINE do! (Uh, match my FOTLs, not your FOTLs, no offense.)

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 05:38 AM

If they truly are that color then the gift giver is NOT your friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 05:43 AM

But, but, but . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Escapee
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 06:03 AM

Forget the sandals and brown suit. For something that formal you need argyles.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 06:06 AM

They are definitely OK to wear with sandals. They are definitely OK to wear with a brown suit....... but all 3 together - not sure about that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: peregrina
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 06:31 AM

turn into sock puppets and recycle as a present for someone else.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 06:33 AM

I don't think any colour socks look OK with sandals, unless you're also wearing brightly coloured Bermudas, a shirt buttoned up to the kneck and a handkerchief knotted around your head. Which suggests post-modern irony.
But they'll be fine with a blue suit, a black suit, a pin-stripe suit, a linen suit ... in fact, I'm sure with your entire wardrobe.

Me, I try to never judge anyone by their socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 08:50 AM

Buy some underwear the same color. If anyone insults your socks, rip off the rest of your clothing, don your fireman's chapeau and sing 'YMCA' as loudly as possible.

Seriously, blue is for boys and shouldn't be too much of a problem a problem. It's a good thing your friend didn't send pink paisley socks.

WTF is an 'FOTL'?

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 09:18 AM

If you REALLY want to make a fashion statement go out wearing nothing but your baby blue socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 09:32 AM

And the helmet. Gotta have the helmet. Think of the YouTubertunities!

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 09:45 AM

My post vanished...

FOTL is Fruit of the Loom, Jeri.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:05 AM

Come on Peace .... Baby-blue socks. That's so "Republikan on the golf course", or too much of the Demokrat's '62 Chevy dream machine .... you gotta get with it man, "wear the suede" so to speak, and go independant, and wear stripes el gaucho

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:22 AM

Thanks Becca. Now a comment in the 'Oddball allergies' thread makes sense. I wish it didn't, but life is like that.

That Google Ad thingie below is gonna be offering a bunch of opportunities to buy socks. I wonder if Bruce needs some more.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:45 AM

If you're afraid of them Peace, send them to me...I've got the keenest baby blue UCLA T-shirt for which they'd be a perfect go-with. I'll send you a blah pair of old (no, make that new) white gym socks which go perfectly w/ sandals (if you're in your dotage.)

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Bee
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:46 AM

Lots of good advice here, Peace. I'll add that if one has gift-giving friends who are also colour blind, one should gently suggest to them that you only accept gifts purchased at the local hardware store. This will greatly reduce the chances of your ending up in purple plaid trousers.

Alwways keep in mind, of course, that any form of dress is acceptable, so long as it doesn't frighten the horses.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: rumanci
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:50 AM

"keep in mind, of course, that any form of DRESS is acceptable"

don't give him ideas Bee

they'll be sending him frocks next
winter weight I hope
LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Bee
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 11:28 AM

Why, I'd rather enjoy viewing Peace in a nice Utili-Kilt. With matching socks.

High heels are definitely out though.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 01:07 PM

Only wear them with bright green sandals, Peace. Honest. Trust me. I'm a fasion guru...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 09:34 PM

I am appreciative of all the excellent advice that people have given me. I should add that these are no ordinary socks. They are 100% cotton except for the 12% Spandex--but the cotton that IS there is 100%. They say right on the package that they will keep one's feet odor-free for a day. That's right, 24 hours. SO, no Axe will be necessary. In fact, these socks are as expensive as my sandals that cost $8.00. So, I don't want to be doing anything that would be considered gauche. Any and all suggestions are very much welcomed. Thank you.

At the end of this thread I will tell y'all who sent the socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:07 PM

"But they'll be fine with a blue suit, a black suit, a pin-stripe suit, a linen suit ... in fact, I'm sure with your entire wardrobe."

The blue socks ARE my entire wardrobe; well, them and the sandals.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Bee
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 11:23 PM

<<fumbles for smelling salts.>>

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 11:34 PM

Oh my.....be still my beating heart.......

Could be worse. The socks could be pink.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 12:31 AM

Tell anyone who enquires that you support Coventry City Football Club.

You will get all the commiserations you can handle.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 12:40 AM

Manchester United, all the way!

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 12:46 AM

Uh, sorry to the Brits. The above statement was not meant to piss off the 43 folks who DON'T support MU.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Darowyn
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 03:25 AM

Light blue would indicate the other Manchester team!
To broaden the topic, I wonder why the majority of men wear such dull colours.
When I look for a style icon, a man that I regard as a snappy dresser, is Henry the Eighth.
I wear red, I'm in emerald green today, royal blue is good. I choose clothes to be seen- yet they are so hard to find. I'm talking about outer garments here- shirts, jackets. Coloured underwear is even harder to find.
You go into as clothes shop, the womenswear is green, blue, red, fuschia- lots of colour.
Step across to menswear- you're into the black and white film era.
Black, camouflage brown, grey, beige.
If anybody asks me the reason for wearing bright colours I will ask,
"What colour is a mouse?"
-"Sort of greyish brown"
"What colour is a tiger?"
-"Orange and black"
"Which one are you dressed as?"
In the natural world, most animal species show that the male is the more showy.
Wear your blue socks with pride- let them take your feet along the road to your natural pride of place as a colourful male.
Remember, you are a tiger, not a mouse. You don't need to hide.
Cheers
Dave
P.S. I put down my success at interviews partly to the fact that I have attended in a red jacket. They remember you!
D

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Azizi
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 08:52 AM

"Wear your blue socks with pride".

And if you really want to make a fsshion statement, dye your hair baby blue.

Hey, you might even start a new fashion trend.

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 08:51 PM

In Oz we have some beautiful male birds with blue plumage - here's one: Superb blue wren. You can see the dowdy little female by his side.

Flaunt those feet! Let them hang out I say!

Cheers
JennieG who is wearing bright orange socks today

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 09:37 PM

I remember wearing pastel socks in the '60s. Whatever color your shirt was, that was your sock color. Baby blue, yellow, mint green, pink. I had a drawerful of 'em.

Now I only have black socks and white socks. I'd wear baby blue ones if someone gave me a pair, but only with boots and jeans so nobody'd see 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 09:42 PM

I see LOTS of jealousy on this thread. I know that many of you, in your heart of hearts, REALLY REALLY WANT baby-blue socks.

Darowyn, in ages past YOU would have led the search for a new world, ridden a rocket to locate Captain Kirk. I salute your valour in the face of public ridicule. I shall wear my new sock with pride. What colours actually GO with baby-blue? BWL's reference to pastel: are they flowers? I must needs know.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Oct 08 - 01:09 PM

Your friend really likes you. Sky blue is the color of the sky, and it symbolizes freedom and forever. It's like a big smiley-face for your feet, only less yellow and more blue. Actually, no yellow at all because then the socks would be green because blue and yellow make green, and that would be a good color if it were happy spring green or a quiet, cool forest green and not what-the-hell-did-he-eat cat-barf green, which you don't want on your feet because it would look like you stepped in cat barf (only it would have to be a really big cat to get it on the tops of your feet and up your legs, like maybe a giant radioactive space cat or something). Your friend should give you some pink socks. Nothing that comes out of a cat is pink. At least not unless the cat has a very bad accident. Good thing your friend didn't send brown socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Oct 08 - 01:41 PM

Whatever your smokin', Jeri,....pass me some.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 08:17 AM

Baby Blue - is that a political statement?

I favour a different hue but I am having difficulty finding double layer socks in red (anti-blister) so I have to wear two thin pairs - any ideas where I can purchase some, Folks? in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 08:41 AM

Could you not have another colour pair inside and the red pair outside Mr Red? It would halve the number required...

Or buy a whole heap of white ones, wash them on hot with the rest of your clothes and see what happens? After all, pink is really only a pale red...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: topical tom
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 11:31 AM

Just a thought...Would they fit on any animals you have?

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 12:11 PM

Hey, Peace, three days ago I offered to take those socks off your hands to go with my UCLA T-shirt of similar color. So far they haven't shown up. Please expedite...the shirt is lonely.

JotSC

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Darowyn
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 12:36 PM

Mr Red- most hiking shops have red thick socks, often with double layer feet.
Blacks, Army & Navy, - that sort of place.
I'm aware of your colour preference- I've met you several times in clubs many miles apart.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 01:57 PM

They would be appropriate with sandals IF you can find a tie to match the socks. A shirt would be optional of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Baby-blue socks: A fashion statement?
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 08:27 PM

Plus a shirt-pocket protector with a few pens....