knee-sock

knee-sock

n
(Clothing & Fashion) a type of sock that comes up to the knee
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ALICIA SILVERSTONE Cher Horowitz in 1995 film Clueless had a buggin' wardrobe of knee-socks, slip dresses and ditsy little skirts.
Lace up your hyper bright sneaks, add some knee-socks and hit the turf.
His blond hair is neatly parted, he's wearing a smart white shirt, shorts and his favourite blue knee-socks while Charlotte looks adorable in white leggings, a frilly blouse and jumper.
Page 2 has sixteen pictures of over-the knee-socks. How charming!
They wear boyshorts, lace bustiers, g-strings, tank tops, lace, knee-socks, gauzy tees, fishnets, sports bras, bikinis, neckties and boxers.
And trousers are cropped just below the knee and worn with patterned knee-socks.
The bespectacled, knee-socked Velma, a closet lesbian?
Speaking from personal experience of working with bronzed fellas dressed in tailored shorts and white ribbed knee-socks I have to say that naff was not a word that readily sprang to mind.
Photo: Lush ferns and tropicalflowers hang above passengers and knee-socked stationmaster on platform of 1915 Kuranda station, believed to be Australia's first precast concrete building
Off the court, sporty knee-socks go stylish Float on in a fuzzy statement coat and lacy shorts.