Dickon wears white socks.
I often get into terrible trouble for this. My own reason is that, at school, the 'White Sock Brigade' was the term for the English equivalent of rednecks. 'Townies' is another. So one reason for me wearing them is simple reclamation of territory. Even townies don't wear white socks anymore. They're that rough. Another reason is that I rather like them. Their current status as fashion anathema gives them, in my eyes, a sly degree of forbidden fruit fetishism.
Or so I thought. In Q Magazine this month, the boy in The White Stripes, possibly the most fashionable band of the moment, can be seen displaying a palpably white-clothed gap between his black shoes and red trousers.
Does this means white socks are finally back in? And, like a stopped clock, I am fashionable simply by brazening it out?
