There is short and short ....

Somethings puzzle me more than others, one of the main ones is this whole ankle sock thing, which seems to have passed me by. Whilst I can understand those sporty type of people out there wearing them with the latest designer sports wear or indeed those wearing shorts on a hot summers day .... what I just don't get is wearing them with long trousers!

Ok with a pair of jeans and trainers I can just about get it, but when wearing formal trousers or the less causal kind it just looks plain silly.

I like to think that I am quite open minded and don't consider myself to be much of a puritan, but there is some strangely strange about somebody crossing their legs in a suit and revealing a naked, completely uncovered, bare, ankle! I have wasted minutes of my life trying to figure out if they are actual wearing any socks at all. The whole thing is, frankly, bizarre.

I hope the isn't a sign of my Britishness, where some things are considered just not done and that is just one my hangups. But I really do think that part of a suit or the formal look includes wearing socks that go some way to matching the shoes and trousers. The revealing of pink flesh when a trouser leg rides up fills me with dismay. Although I am partial to the odd ankle here and there, there is a time and place for revealing such a thing and during a meeting isn't one of them.

I guess this may be one of the phobias I have to come to terms with, and I do own a pair of the offending articles, which I wear when in one of my more sporting moods (not often).