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Are your socks showing your age?

Are your socks showing your age?

Millennials are having to up their game in the sock war with Gen Z.

Ashley Fetters Maloy and Samantha Chery

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Untold numbers of Millennials are waking up to a grim new reality on their TikTok pages: their socks are making them look old.

Younger consumers have gravitated away from the faux-sockless look favoured by Millennials for the past couple of decades, towards the 1980s and ’90s style that emphasises a tall, sometimes even slouchy sock visible far above the sneaker, and retailers have felt the shift.

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