Is this the new trend that I've heard about

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Please tell me it's not. Dd did her best wtf confused and horrified face as did I. I'd heard things on here about a new trend for men involving too-short trousers and no socks but thought it was a big city thing. This was a small seaside town. Dd mainly baffled as the ankles looked rather feminine compared to the suit and beer belly and beard above them 🤣

There’s a nice campness about it I quite like

Nope never seen that but then I live in the states. It does look weird. His shoes should invite his trousers down for tea.

If you take all the rural seaside bollocks out of this post it basically reads:

“My daughter and I enjoyed mocking a man for his fashion choices today. I even took a photo so others could mock him online. We fat shamed him a bit too. Hope you’ll all join in and laugh at him with me.”

Stop teaching your daughter to be a bully.

As with the others, the trousers need to be a slimmer cut for it to work, but it's been around for ages.

Also been around in the States. Started about the time that shorts started to get shorter (I'm a fan of the 7", while the 5" takes a particular body type to pull off).

In fact, the front page of JCrew currently has a version of it on its offer page, albeit rolled with dock shoes. And their current styling for suits has it too. Really, when it's hit JCrew, it's no longer a secret. (They're generally reasonably fashion forward, but they're not avant garde.)

Agree that if it’s a photo actually taken of someone in the street for the purpose of pisstaking, that is absolutely not on. I’d assumed it was just Googled.

I don’t mind it as a trend, personally. I would hate to see young people dressing like their dads and I quite like it when men’s fashions are a bit more daring even when daft. I have a male colleague who wears a rolled ankle-grazing trouser with lace-ups and no socks to work. He looks slightly like a Victorian urchin and I quite like it as a look on a young whippersnapper. It’s more interesting than the dull suits and chinos the other men wear, at least.

I think it’s fine as a look but is it only me who is bothered about the lack of socks .

I’ve been led to believe that socks are necessary with all footwear apart from sandals/flip flops so when I see shoes worn without socks it makes me inwardly shudder! Is it hygenic? My Dd has had a corn on her foot and I kept telling her it was bcos she wasn’t wearing socks when she should have!

DS's hipster barber does this. Whenever I see it I just imagine his shoes being full of hair clippings

Is it hygenic? My Dd has had a corn on her foot and I kept telling her it was bcos she wasn’t wearing socks when she should have! Corns are from shoes rubbing, they're not infectious. Maybe the sock would have provided padding, but corns don't appear because of lack of hygiene.

I wear closed toe shoes without socks all the time. My shoes don’t smell and my feet are immaculate.

Google ‘hipster no socks ‘ for a range of very cool images of the look.

But in truth OP, you are as much of a feature for not having been aware of this trend as your hapless photo victim was for getting it wrong.

None of it matters, it’s just fashion, but be careful when you choose to point fingers.

I agree with pps who have said that it seems mean to actually take a photo of someone just to post on the internet for others to laugh at.

However, I am not a fan of the fashion myself.