Everybody has socks, and most people already have white crew socks ... makes much more of a point than, say, an ankle sock or a no-show. There aren't many ways you can go wrong with a white ...

“Why are they black?” Only a sliver of her black ankle socks could be seen beneath her trousers, but it was enough to earn a scolding for breaking the “white-socks-only” rule for nurses there.