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[Belle]

love it!

[Bezalel]

love it!

I wore them today because of the cooler weather and also in honor of National Wear Red Day in support of women and the fight against heart disease.

[Red Hare]

nice !!!!!!!!!!!

[Savannah]

http://www.nytimes.c...trepreneur.html

FOR barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs. For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads.
And for today’s tech entrepreneurs in high-flying Silicon Valley, it is flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned socks.
In a land where the uniform — jeans, hoodies and flip-flops — is purposefully nonchalant, and where no one would be caught dead in a tie, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personality. It signals that you are part of the in crowd. It’s like a secret handshake for those who have arrived, and for those who want to.
“I have been in meetings where people look down and notice my socks, and there is this universal sign, almost like a gang sign, where they nod and pull up their pant leg a little to show off their socks,” said Hunter Walk, 38, a director of product management at YouTube, whose favorite pair is yellow, aqua and orange striped.
Some say the craze took hold because socks are an acceptable shot of flair in a dressed-down, male-dominated culture — and peek out when entrepreneurs present their latest apps onstage at the tech world’s frequent conferences. Others offer a perhaps more universal explanation. “Girls notice,” said Matt Graves, 37, a communications director at Twitter, who prefers orange and blue stripes.
Showy socks hark back to the 1700s, when people wore them embroidered or in outlandish colors, fashion historians say.

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[Bezalel]

http://www.nytimes.c...trepreneur.html

Nice article; thanks. I didn't realize that I was part of a nationwide movement, though I did notice that yeshiva bochrim in the neighborhood started wearing colorful socks after I did.

"Some say the craze took hold because socks are an acceptable shot of flair in a dressed-down, male-dominated culture"

That's my thinking.

"Others offer a perhaps more universal explanation. 'Girls notice,' said Matt Graves, 37, a communications director at Twitter, who prefers orange and blue stripes."

That's not my experience.

[Pinchas]

Maybe you're aren't wearing short enough pants?