ITT: Trends you'll NEVER understand

It's really easy and fun to style them, and it looks good on most people.

When I was in my college debate team a lot of the opponents tried to be /Mfa/ or fedora tier and didn't wear socks. They all got docked points or eliminated. I usually always wore black silk or something whimsical. Tournaments are usually from 4am to 11pm so I had no time for sweaty uncomfortable feet. Plus it looks cheap and trashy

4am-11pm???

normcore, rick owens, air jordans

>Normcore
>A trend

yes
yes
yes
not true

...

stan smiths

they're shit-tier as far as basic white sneakers go

the dots and green colouring have no appeal to me whatsoever

If you didn't grow up in an area where this was the norm, where these were the shoes you saw your father and grandfather wear during the summer, then no one expects you to get it.

Sans-socks is acceptable in business and business casual wear, especially if everything else compliments your shoes and you don't have obscene wooly mammoth ankles.

Horsebit is more distasteful than sans-socks desu

Not true at all - it depends entirely on your hair color, your hairline, and how your hair behaves with length.

...

Well yeah, wearing a suit with shoes and no socks (especially to fucking prom) is extremely tacky.

But, leather shoes without socks does work in more casual fits, especially on a boat or at a casual picnic or something.

kekkk

ffs kek'd hard

Psychology degrees

I havnt worn socks in over a year, feels good man. Either Im wearing flip flops or boat shoes because of Florida's eternal summer.

not even a trend dude. people have been incorporating this into prep and trad style for almost a century now

...

I'm with OP. The no-socks thing is getting out of control. 90% of the fits you see on this board have pants that are either too short or cuffed to show off their ankles, which doesn't make any sense. I don't think your ankles are an attractive body part. Whenever I see a fit on Veeky Forums I just cringe at how uncomfortable it must be to have exposed ankles. Does this not bother anybody else? Even fits that attempt to professional look like they had a growth spurt and couldn't afford new pants.

There's nothing wrong with his statement. It is/was a trend.

thinspo
As a skinny guy, it sucks having everything be baggy. Even with fitting clothes, there's still the fact that my arms are literal sticks. I'm jealous of all the big guys with thick forearms that can easily hold a watch on the wrist without it sliding down to their elbow.

it looks better

You fucking idiot

>really want one of those
>every pair i try doesnt fit when i walk
w-why

...

they're playing with proportion, open your mind senpai not saying that plenty of them aren't shit though.

I wear no show socks with everything. Loafers, boat shoes, even sneakers. Plebs gonna pleb.

ankles are attractive if you have a tan

no show socks are for the ultimate pleb tho

Stay triggered, pleb.

>n-no you

sad

*and are not a hambeast but that goes without saying I suppose

Excellent summary of your initial reply, commoner.

I wear boat shoes on boats. I never understood why people would wear them in general, although they are airy in the summer.

I bet you're a progressive and like to call people cucks too.

>thought it was a womans legs
>hairy man arm
whats going on

Fuck off cankles

pseudo formal prep vibe that many americans like to exhude

Guys trying to look like girls and yeah the no sock thing is fucking odd.

lel

>need to be rich to have pants that are too small for you

Where's his right hand

On his dick.

[ ]Kek
[x]Not kek

...

fucking hell hahahaha

>docked points
>for the clothes you're wearing

What the fuck kind of school did you go to?

Dropcrotch.

for harambe?

Its steel battalion all over again.

I have the same ankles. Is ... is it not fashionable to be thin?

>if you didn't grow up in an area where this was the norm
THIS. Grandparents and uncles on my mother's side used to race sailboats and my grandfather still has a sailboat on a mooring off from their summer cottage.

It's always funny to hear kids make remarks about "ohhh, where's your sailboat? XD" and then inform them that you grew up sailing with family.

That and top siders were a part of our uniform in high school so I still have multiple pairs.

Most of people I've seen wearing them look pathetic trying to cover up a cubby face/ shit nose with these

then do something about it?

...

the fact that you haven't moved past your heritage and your childhood are clear signs of an uncreative dork. i doubt you sail more than david de rothschild

>moved past
It's no so much that I'm fixated on it, as it is that it's just a style I've grown up with and continued to enjoyed through the summer months. I don't sail a lot, and I don't have my own sailboat yet, but I still enjoy the nautical/northeastern summertime aesthetic. Why do you think that's so bad to like? I don't get it.

>In the summer I work for rich folks by sailing their yacht to the warm Mediterranean from their depressing cold European shitholes.
>One of the crew members has fallen ill due to a bad lobster.
>OI I have a friend who can help.
>Dude arrives, prepmeister the 2nd, earl of vineyard vines.
>Oke, whatever.
>Dude does nothing but acts as if it's a holiday on this sweet yacht.
>Despite a coming storm the owner wants the boat in his med port.
>Sail in the storm like a mad cunt
>We need an extra pair of hands on deck.
>Ask prepfag why he isn't geared up.
>All he had was a windbreaker, no foul weather gear, boots or lifejacket.
>After an hour finally dares to come outside after his friend pestered him.
>One wave, slips on his faggy boat shoes lands with his back on a burly Lewmar winch and almost rolls overboard.
>He stayed in bed for the rest of the trip.
>When we reached port he was all talk and called us fags for being so over prepared.

He died a year later in an unrelated scooter accident wearing boat shoes.

Boat shoes kill.

Real sailors haven't been wearing deck shoes for ages.

Race sailing shoes is where it's at nowadays.

...

...

No socks and showing off ankle is gay as fuck for men!

I guess when you become rich you suddenly stop getting blisters on your feet.

...

Crocs, fanny packs, socks with sandals, JNCO jeans, tucking your pants into your boots and tying the laces around your calves...

the thing is
>ankles are a body part
>theres nothing uncomfortable about exposed ankles

Maybe it looks like they had a growth spurt and couldnt afford new pants to you cause your still getting growth spurts?

imo i think its more difficult to gain weight for some people, especially if they ever reach /thinspo/ levels. Im 6'1 around low150, I have never weighted more than 160 and lowest I have been is 138, unless you get start chugging nutrition shakes with every meal and make a very active effort to eat more and more often when you can easily go 6hours or so without eating without much discomfort, to then eat a small meal and feel full.

I see your bait, but whatever.

...

there's some dude in toronto who walks around in these and I'd like to punch him

Going sockless is only acceptable if you have really clean feet and/or you use foot powder. You may not be able to smell your own nasty foot odor but other people sure as hell can. Plus leather picks up smells like no other material.

That's a pretty big leap of logic to assume about me.

It's not that I think ankles are gross or something. I don't mind them if you're wearing shorts. It's just when you're wearing pants that are obviously too short/excessively cuffed, the only thing people notice are your ankles and wonder why you're pulling so much attention to them. I imagine you sitting down and having your goofy cuffed pants coming up to your knees.

he probably thinks sailing is elitist and feels left out

Go full SLP

same here alway thot they were ug af

Jordans and AF1s
just don't get it

I agree with this.

I got into streetwear starting in like 05, back when AF1s were THE shoe
and I never fucking understood it; my friend drools whenever he sees a pair of AF1s with certain characteristics, so I know it's a fetish-level fad for some people

I mean, I think Jordans look cool, but people wear it completely wrong. it's disgusting sometimes. AF1s are so common that having a pair is being basic desu

There was a big reggaeton trend in my area at that time; and if you know the style, AF1s are mandatory

...

As a guy who lives in a city that just reached peak fade, I have to say that it only looks good on good looking people (shockingly).

Nigga, that's true everywhere, all the time. Learn something about audience expectations.

disgusting desu.
im glad the people with no standards are relegated to shit holes like florida

only asians and white dudes can pull it off and it doesnt work with curly hair or gingers

being black isnt "having a tan"

lmfao this pic, saved.

...

do us a favour, brave man

wtf stop photoshopping

it's real