Wearing two mismatched socks - Classic or Dud?

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To me they're the same because I go by thickness.

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I assume this was a thing everywhere, and probably got to my small British backwater 5 years later than everywhere else, but maybe it was a local fad: in the mid-80s, the cooler, older kids at my primary school would wear socks of two different neon colours, e.g. one lime green and one hot pink or neon yellow

I thought this was quite the stylish look but my parental sock-buyers were not keen so no neon socks for me

I spend a whole lot of time sorting a wide variety of similar-yet-different white tube socks because I need them to match perfectly.

I used to do this with black ankle socks and it became harder and harder finding a pair in among a drawer of nearly-identical black socks all with slightly different lengths of cuff or different levels of fadedness or glossiness or elasticity etc; not that I imagine anyone would ever have looked that closely, but it triggered a strange compulsion all the same

now I just buy patterned coloured sets and at least I can generally tell at a glance whether they match

(apart from buying a bunch of different multipacks in the same pattern and then finding they contain three different shades of grey, which look the same when damp/in a dimly lit room/with bleary morning eyes. or when I've had to throw one out and couldn't immediately find its partner so it just lurks in the drawer forever and I can't quite remember if it's actually been widowed)

do people just throw away both socks off a pair when one of them has a hole? That just seems wasteful.

also I think we should distinguish between wearing different color socks and wearing different model but same color socks.

People can wear what they want, leave them the fuck alone.

you can now buy sets of mismatched socks, which is ludicrous.

I used to do this with black ankle socks and it became harder and harder finding a pair in among a drawer of nearly-identical black socks all with slightly different lengths of cuff or different levels of fadedness or glossiness or elasticity etc; not that I imagine anyone would ever have looked that closely, but it triggered a strange compulsion all the same

I just came out of something like this. "I hate sorting socks! I'll just buy black Hanes for everything. Problem solved." But then over the years, the company made small changes to their sizes and styles and yeah, some got worn more than others. Then my son decided HE only wanted to wear black Hanes socks, so the laundry was full of socks one size below mine. It became infuriating.

I wore mismatched black Nike sneaks the other day. Oops.

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