Look Like Him

Ever since my buddy posted this on Pinterest (did we finally get to the day that dudes are actually typing sentences like that?) I've been somewhat obsessed with finding lavender socks. I mean look at the outstanding "POP" it has getting all up in your face.

Well, today my friend, consider them found!

After all my searching in every store I've been to that carries socks, I finally hunkered down with my friend Google images, and through a link of a link...found another link that led me to these.

"Houndstooth is one of the truly classic patterns gentleman have been wearing for well over 100 years. The lavender colour on these Bugatchi dress socks are a perfect way to welcome the spring."

I don't care if it's Spring or not, $25 may seem like a lot for socks but I've been looking and there's not a lot of good substitutes for this. Sometimes you just have to pay more than TJ Maxx to venture out for quality accessories.

Don't let the shoe overpower here. It should be complementary, but the sock is the star of the show. The sock is what people are going to stop you to comment on...even though the shoes may cost twelve times as much.

Any plain Walnut colored shoe should do the trick, right? In this case, Allen Edmonds' Carlyle would show you've got class...and the socks put the punctuation mark on you having style.

But, let me give you something else to think about. Is maybe part of what makes this work the contrast outside of the color?

What??  Well, we can see the contrast in color (lavender vs. tan and blue)...we can see it in pattern (houndstooth vs. leather grain and perhaps chambray)...but we can also see it in the straight lines on the pants and shoe stitching vs. the houndstooth of the sock.

So subtle, but this is the kind of thing that can really take you to the next level.  So maybe you want something more angular like the Cole Haan Copley Plain Derby below. The color is off (the Allen Edmonds nails it) but I want to give you an idea of what I'm talking about with the more angular vs. curved stitching.

Finally I'll add I'm not a huge fan of cuffs. But in this instance if you have them, it adds a couple of those nice little extra lines to the outfit I was talking about

And if you get them hemmed a little higher than usual (with no break) so you can show off a little bit of sock while standing, it'll add weight to keep the pant legs pulled down in a really nice way. 

What do you think? Got a favorite pair of socks people need to be sporting? Tell us all in the comments.