Dress socks
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Dress socks are an article of dress clothes
specifically for men. Traditionally, they sometimes come in checker
ed patterns, and come in colours like black
, blue
, and gray, but recent fashion trends have seen different patterns and colors appear. Dress socks are worn in accompaniment to dress shoes and they are also used in formal wear
when worn in accompaniment to a tuxedo
. They can also be worn in accompany to casual wear like jeans.
They also come in a variety of heights. They come ankle high, mid calf high (the most common), and over the calf. Dress socks have also been known to slip down the leg, causing the wearer to have to constantly pull them up. Some men would buy garters or sock suspenders to help this, but with the elastics now, it is unnecessary.
Dress clothes
Dress clothes are clothing that is less formal than formal wear but more formal than casual wear.-Summary:For men, this includes items like a necktie, a dress shirt, trousers, dress socks, dress shoes, and underwear...
specifically for men. Traditionally, they sometimes come in checker
Checker
Checker may refer to:*Checker Motors Corporation, an automotive industry subcontractor that was once the builder of the Checker taxicab and the Superba and Marathon automobiles...
ed patterns, and come in colours like black
Black
Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
, blue
Blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
, and gray, but recent fashion trends have seen different patterns and colors appear. Dress socks are worn in accompaniment to dress shoes and they are also used in formal wear
Formal wear
Formal wear and formal dress are the general terms for clothing suitable for formal social events, such as a wedding, formal garden party or dinner, débutante cotillion, dance, or race...
when worn in accompaniment to a tuxedo
Tuxedo
A tuxedo is a type of semi-formal dress for men.Tuxedo may also refer to:-Places:Canada* Tuxedo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city neighborhood** Tuxedo , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba...
. They can also be worn in accompany to casual wear like jeans.
They also come in a variety of heights. They come ankle high, mid calf high (the most common), and over the calf. Dress socks have also been known to slip down the leg, causing the wearer to have to constantly pull them up. Some men would buy garters or sock suspenders to help this, but with the elastics now, it is unnecessary.