Saturday mid-morning: Huge pre-game house party on Packard [photo], just down the street from the Zen Buddhist Temple yard sale [photo].
Packard & State
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This is semi-unrelated, but that first picture got me thinking. We’ve been seeing a lot of young men wearing shorts with black socks lately. I know I’m aging, and far from hip anymore (you can tell by my use of the word “hip”), but please tell me this is not a fashion trend!
If black socks with shorts are a fashion trend, it might be traced to Lance Armstrong. My recollection is that it was a cold nasty rainy day on the Tour de France, and he opted for black socks so they wouldn’t show the dirt. It caused a minor stir in the cycling world. But may have helped make the shorts-and-black-socks combo more acceptable in general. I own a half-dozen pair of black cycling socks. I find that in addition to looking awesome on the bike, the black socks also really rock a pair of Teva sandals.
So in answer to your question, Trevor, given this additional info – no, it’s absolutely not a fashion trend.
More likely the look was picked up from the Fab Five:
As students,they helped to bring a popular “Hip Hop” style to the game with their trash talk and by imitating Michael Jordan of the NBA , wearing longer,baggier gym shorts and shaved heads. They also wore black athletic shoes, and black athletic socks.
Taken from Wikipedia entry on them: [link]