Bobby socks are a style of women's
sock, white, ankle-length or collected at the ankle, instead of at full extension up the leg.
The term
bobby soxer derives from this type of sock.
They were initially popular in the
United States
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in the 1940s through the 1950s, later making a comeback in the 1980s.
[''Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: 1940s–1950s'', Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast. UXL/Thomson Gale, 2002]
References
1940s fashion
1950s fashion
1960s fashion
Socks
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