Millennials have cutthroat defenses of their low-cut socks as Gen Z embraces crew socks.
Justin Bieber in 2019 in Los Angeles; Sabrina Carpenter arrives at “Saturday Night Live” on May 18 in New York City. When Garrett Spence was in middle school, back in the early 2000s, he made the same appeal to his mom year after year at Christmas: Could she please, in her annual replenishment of his sock and underwear supply, just get him theshort socks? No, not the quarter-length kind that cut a clean, straight line across his ankle an inch or two above his low-tops. Shorter than that.
The debate has consumed media in recent months. Gen Z celebrities such as Kaia Gerber and Lori Harvey have been out and about sporting crew socks with sneakers and — in Sabrina Carpenter’s case — heels. Headlines warn about “toxicGen Z may like crew socks, but they’ve remained relatively silent on the issue on TikTok, and don’t seem to care when asked on. Meanwhile, the most popular TikToks on the trend war are explainer videos and millennials on the defensive.
Tennis, for example, has contributed quite a lot over the past century to mainstream fashion — and Deirdre Clemente, a professor of history at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who specializes in fashion, notes that no-show socks have been a mainstay in women’s tennis since the late 1990s.
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