STOP INVENTING INTERGENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES!
Bridie, you’re a millennial – tell me about your socks
NO ONE GIVES A SHIT
Oh Gabs, you could ask me what beauty I saw in the world on this glorious blue sky morning, or how my relationship is with my mother, or what rage is in my heart. But no, everyone wants to talk about millennial socks.
WHO THE FUCK IS EVERYONE? IS THAT ODYSSEUS PLAYING A TRICK ON US BY PUTTING A TWIST ON HIS OLD PRANK?
I actually wear great socks. Heavily influenced by my little brother, I’ve worn Uniqlo crew socks for years. Which are actually “zoomer socks”. But I have loved ankle socks as well, and that is the foghorn that signals I’m a millennial, apparently.
SAYS FUCKING WHO THEYRE JUST FUCKING DOCKS SHUT THR FUCK UP
Wait, I’m just trying to wrap my head around the concept of “millennial socks” – which you now tell me are just ankle socks – and now you’ve introduced the concept of “zoomer socks”. Are they merely coloured crew socks or is there more to it?
THEGRE JUST FUCKIBG SOCJS HILY SHIT AASSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH 
Millennial socks are small socks that stop at the ankle, or even the ones you can’t see at all above the shoe (I loved these!). Zoomer socks are generally crew socks – any sock pulled up high. They invented them (citation needed). Also, I think they’re actually called gen Z socks – my beloved zoomer colleagues are always telling me that only millennials say zoomer.
I LOVED THESE 
“They invented them” 
CITATION FUCKING NEEDED
OK, so millennials love ankle socks – good to know. But why is Jennifer Lawrence being called “brave” by Vogue for stepping out in “millennial socks”?
SOMEONE PUT THE PEOPLE IN TEEN VOGUE IN CHARGW OF THE WHOLE BRAMD PLEASE FOR THE LIFE OF GOD
Ah, I think because one of the most tragic things you can be in some corners of the internet is a woman in her 30s dressing herself with no regard for a trend.
INCOHERENT SCREAMING
Oh no, what about a woman in her 40s?
LOUDER INCOHERENT SCREAMING
I don’t believe they exist.
INCOHERENT SOBBING
So, ahem, the long and short of it is that gen Z have pulled their socks up?
TF2 SOLDIER SCREAMING NOISE
Ha! They’ve also moved their hair part to the middle, millennials favour the side part. And they’re wearing enormous pants – skinny jeans are definitely out. Also high-waisted jeans are a millennial relic. Gen Z are wearing pants that hang off their hips.
SQUEALING PIG THAT SHAT ON ITS BALLS NOISES
Wait, I wore pants that hung off my hips!
I CANT TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS FUCKING MONOLOGUE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK
Ssshh, ssshhhh. This is the first time in history that any of this is cool. And it will stay cool for ever. There definitely won’t be articles in 10 years calling a 35-year-old zoomer “brave” for wearing crew socks.
PLEASE LET ME BE MOULDERING IN A GRAVE BEFORE THIS HAPPENS
With temperatures hovering around 0C this week, leaving ankles across pre-Y2K generations practically frostbitten, I have been wearing crew socks instead of ankle socks. This Xennial is accidentally cool now.
Fucking amateur, just-freezing is great weather to be wearing summer clothes in.
I wear socks that go above the ankle even in summer because the smaller ones have my shoes chafe the skin on my Achilles’ tendon, causing small but uncomfortable marks
Yep, altho I bought ones that go below the ankle but they go above the achilles’ tendon on the back, so I use those in the summer. Otherwise I prefer higher socks specially in colder days, otherwise my ankles will get cold.
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:blob-nothoughts: My socks are all the same, that way I don’t have to worry about having unmatched ones!
Just asked my millennial room mate about socks. I’m a zoomer and somehow this lines up with our household. I didn’t know long socks were a fashion thing, they’re just more comfy to me
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Undo the censorship, mod. Lest I take you down to the sockhop and show you how it’s done.
And then I take you down to the IHOP and slip away from a bathroom window leaving you with the bill after a lovely evening, ghosting you, and ultimately shattering your confidence in yourself and your pathetic, little socks.
I’m surprised this isn’t a Gen Z bashing article lmao
This feels like phrenology.
Nothin new. There was a whole moment in the late 90s where socks with sandals was a topic. Peoplenjust get weird about socks ig
Panem, circenses, et tibiale.
You can take my ankle socks, cargo shorts, and band t-shirts from my cold, dead body.
sock on deez nuts
Fuck, I lold :D
What level of bourgeoisie is it when you care about fucking sock fashion?
This makes me want to kill everyone ever.
you wouldnt kill me right? im cute
I acre about those things the same way I care about horoscopes or the latest TV show. It’s inconsequential, entertaining bullshit that’s fun to talk about in a gossipy way. I would never judge somebody by how long their socks are, nor I would hang with people who unironically did either.
Also I care about fashion because some clothes are pretty and thrifting is fun to me. It’s just my hobby, I don’t care how other people dress.
I mean, the original lower class agitators of the French Revolution were distinguished by their lack of long silk socks. So it’s basically on the level of the OG bourgeoisie.
So millenials are the real revolutionaries for wearing ankle socks.
What if they wore no socks though, like the sans culottes.
Dirt_Owl out here making actionable threats on c/fashion
and I’ll do it again, too
Me first pls I’m disappointed I have to live in a world where people are apparently judging my got dang socks
About 2 months ago people started making memes about how millennials tend to wear short socks and gen z wear higher socks and it’s a funny way of identifying one or the other, and it seems like the news only just caught on to what’s already a stale joke
all my millennial friends and I are zoomers I guess
shit
I’m a cusp millennial so it checks out for me. I never could relate to all those 90s things the folks born in the 80s keep talking about. I had to learn about their lore through video essays
Imagine having to hear intergenerational talk all the time about every single little thing… imagine
Same as with banal nationalism. Which also works as a sock discourse. Saying this as one of the wool sock country folks.
