Slides with socks outfit

It’s time to take style notes from your dad again. The Marmite combination of socks and sandals used to be almost exclusively associated with middle-aged male tourists, but as soon as we were plunged into national lockdown, pairing trusty slides with socks became second nature. What WFH-er hasn’t slipped their socked feet into their Birks for a spontaneous shop run, only to find themselves admiring the effect while queueing at the till?

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