shivver | (Reply)

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For the UK, if your socks are going to be seen (you're not wearing boots/there's a visible gap between your shoes and jeans/trousers at any point), your socks should match your shoes, or at least be dark or light to tone in. Socks with sandals are mocked, especially white socks. White socks are a bit, well, sports things. But I don't think it would automatically proclaim you as being from the US to us!

I wouldn't worry, though - everyone shows their different nationalities when abroad. You see people on trains and you know where they're from, because clothes and mannerisms and the way we look and behave gives us away - especially when in pairs or groups. I mean, wear what you're comfortable with and you'll be happy and so what to the rest. (It's also like when you're watching a UK show and there's one US character or the reverse and you start thinking the one character is definitely fake, and they're not, it's just how odd they suddenly look against everyone else. Except of course, when they are fake, because TV, but you know what I mean!)