I want to talk about fashion again. Why? Currently in the Southern Hemisphere, we are nearly at the middle of Autumn. We are slowly trading in our shorts and skirts, for trousers and long dresses, because of how crazy Autumn can be here. 4°C in the morning, 20°C at lunch time, and 10°C in the evening. You almost need to walk around with a portable wardrobe, because of the weather changes.

Autumn does give you the chance to reassess your sock situation. You can’t spend all your time walking about in jandals anymore, unless you want your toes to turn blue, then black. That being the case, you need to start wearing a lot more socks.

I love socks. Seriously, I love them. This has led me to examine my sock collection, because every good geek needs a good pair of socks. So may I present for your reading pleasure, another fashion blog that nobody has asked for, written by a simple geeky father, with some outstanding fashion sense.

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Socks for a Geek

Active wear socks

For some extremely stupid and illogical reason, I like the term active wear. You don’t actually need to be active to wear active wear, just wearing them is enough. So why do I have some fantastic ankle length socks? The answer is so amazing and completely not boring, that it requires two parts.

The first part is that I wear these bad boys to work, and if I’m being honest, I wear these types of socks a lot. They’re snug, affordable and can come in different colours, like white, black or grey. I know, it’s mental isn’t it?

Also, I’m such a geeky bad arse, that I wear these socks as mismatched pairs. I could be walking about wearing a black sock with blue stripes on one foot, but a white sock with red stripes on the other. And because my trousers hide the socks, nobody knows; except when I wear shorts to work, so then it looks like UMC2 had dressed me. The universe has not broken down over the insanity of me wearing mismatched socks. Yet.

I need to point something out as well. I enjoy running, though a better way to describe is that I suffer running. Though to be fair, running is a strong word, it’s more like moving my legs slightly faster than walking.

As a geek, it’s extremely important to try and maintain a healthy lifestyle, which I generally fail at. However, the silver lining in this terrible looking Nimbostratus cloud, is that my active wear socks are perfect for running. I even run with mismatched socks, because as Aerosmith said, I’m all about Livin’ on the edge.

Sadly I do seem to wear through these socks quickly. I could lie and say it’s because I’m so fast; but it’s more to do that I’m constantly washing them, and the fact I purchase the cheapest option, because I have to save money in order to buy more books about things that are not real. I’m such a stable genius.

Social socks

I’m a self diagnosed loud introvert. This means that the rare times I’m actually at a social event, like a meeting; professional developmental course; party; or with my extended family; I’m going to be reserved.

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However, once someone starts discussing an interesting topic with me, well…my excitement levels will slowly start rising. Then you’re going to have to find a way to shut me up. This is because during these awkward social interactions, I’ll be wearing my social socks to boost my confidence and promote pop culture.

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These socks include:

• Hotdogs
• Fries
• Milkshakes
• Turtles
• Spider-Man
• All Blacks
• 3 x pairs of Batman socks (I don’t have enough of these)
• 2 x pairs of Mandalorian socks
• Superman with a small cape on the back

• and finally, the pièce de résistance, my toe socks

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The majority of these socks have been gifts to me of one type or another, but the toe socks I purchased for myself. I think that even if Morgoth, the First Enemy, had to choose between the Silmarils and toe socks; or Darkseid, choosing between the Anti-Life Equation and toe socks, they would both buckle and choose toe socks.

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If I go to the cinema, I may wear one Batman sock, along with one Spider-Man sock. My wife calls me hopeless, when this happens; but she doesn’t understand the amount of time and dedication it takes to have this level of geek commitment.

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I also smile secretly, whenever I get to talk to anybody, while I’m wearing the Superman socks. During the conversation, I’m usually distracted with the concept that the person in front of me, has no idea I’m wearing socks with capes on them. I am so hard core, even Chuck Norris would be taking a wide berth of me.

If you’re looking to invest in some new socks, give in to your geek side, and locate the baddest pair of geek socks you can find. You won’t regard it.

This brings us to the end of another action packed blog, written by a man in a daily battle with his dog, over ownership of a pillow.

Anyway, thanks for reading, I really do appreciate it. Remember stay safe, wash your hands, catch your cough, and I’ll see you next week.

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I want to talk about fashion. Why? Well, as crazy as this sounds, but blogs about fashion seem to be quite popular. Who would have thought it? Not me, obviously. This led me to sit inside my head, where I came to the realisation that I had never written a fashion blog before.

I have to admit that fashion is well outside my comfort zone of things to discuss. However, I’m into fashion; I mean I do wear clothes. So just like Theseus followed the ball of string to his goal, I followed the ill-conceived logic from I’m someone that wears clothes, to writing a blog, not just about fashion; but geek fashion.

I have consulted the entire staff of Some Geek Told Me, and nobody; not a single staff member said to me, “Scott, that is a terrible idea.” Because those words have not been spoken to me over this topic, may I present for your reading pleasure: Geek Fashion: Shoes Edition.

BTW, I don’t own the shoes below, but I wish I did. I don’t have street cred to wear them.

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Shoes for a Geek

Jandals

Let’s start with my dependable black and green jandals. The brand name is Beach Works, though the soles are getting obliterated, just like Alderaan; although millions of voices have not suddenly cried out in terror, as I have worn them. However people may be frightened of my horrific tan line, located around my ankles.

I think I’ve had them 4 years, so they’re holding up quite well. Notice the indents from my heels and toes; the word from Milan is that this style is called Vagabondo da spiaggia, or so I’ve been told by fans nowhere.

These jandals allow me the freedom to walk on the beach; and walk about during Summer. And just to prove just how sick these bad boys can be, I don’t even wear socks with them. Believe it.

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Gumboots

What would a shoe collection belonging to a geek be, without some arse-kicking gumboots? Like any other geek, I wear my gumboots for mowing the lawn, and anything else I feel like.

Need to go to the supermarket? Wear gumboots. Need to go to the hardware store? Wear gumboots. Need to pick your child up from school? Wear gumboots. Need to go running? Don’t wear gumboots, that’s just stupid.

I wear my old, paint smeared, black and blue gumboots around town, to give the illusion that I’m a man of action. In reality, I’m at home wearing my gumboots and staring at the mailbox, wishing the latest manga would appear in it. I heard the look is called Le faux, in Paris, because I’m an early adopter.

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Social

There are times when a geek needs to interact with other geeks in person, or maybe meet non-geeks in a social setting. Because of this, I have my social/casual shoes. These black and white carnage creators, allow me to blend into parties, bars, baby showers, and anything else.

Sadly, these shoes do come with two forms of kryptonite. The first is that, the shoe laces are long. When I mean long, I mean as long as Plastic Man can stretch his face.

To counter act this flaw, I have to tie my shoe laces; not once, not twice, but triple knot them. Seriously, I have to tie them into triple knots, because I am that cool. Oh, as for the second problem, because of the insane length of the shoe laces, I can only wear these shoes with jeans.

The utterly mental reason why this has to happen, is so I can cover the cuff over the shoe, to hide the remaining shoe laces. It’s hilarious when I’m drunk, and I’ve stepped on the laces. It means I have to re-knot them; drunk. It never goes well.

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Work

This brings us to the masterpieces of my shoe collection, my work shoes. I need to quickly point out that the Nike shoes, are recently demoted running shoes, but they fit perfectly with the style of No Grip.

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The provocative new style of No Grip, allows the user to wear shoes, that have no tread on the sole; ie no grip. These shoes are great on liquid surfaces, because one second you are vertical, the next you are horizontal on the floor.

No Grip is sweeping the world, because people need to actually sweep people off the floor. You’re find yourself performing feats of athleticism, you never could imagine; especially in front of your co-workers. It’s great.

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Thanks for letting me discuss my fashion experience with shoes. Stay safe and I’ll see you next week.

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