Loose socks
Loose socks ( Japanese ル ー ズ ソ ッ ク ス rūzu sokkusu , German 'loose socks' ) are usually white, wide, wrinkled socks that are usually attached to the lower leg with a special adhesive called sock touch ( ソ ッ ク タ ッ チ sokkutatchi ) so that they are not attached slide down. From the ankle on, they look like leg warmer gauntlets . They are worn along with their school uniform by some Japanese middle and high school students, especially those of the Kogal subculture .
history
The loose socks came into fashion with Japanese middle and high school students in the mid-1990s. They spread very quickly and soon loose socks were being offered everywhere. The period from 1996 to 1998 is considered to be the heyday, in which about half of the girls wore this fashion, which was also very present in the mass media . Schoolchildren at schools that forbade wearing socks only wore them on their way to school. After 1998 the wave ebbed in favor of long, dark blue or white high socks .
See also: School in Japan