How is it that sockless boat shoes, ankle-skuxing and flat peaks have become a fashion statement? The current trends on display in and around uni are shameful, if not completely fucked. At least in the days of Canterbury NZ track pants and Kathmandu puffer jackets, comfort and practicality were at the forefront of one’s wardrobe. It’s been a slippery slope downwards ever since.
Dunedin students have always been a strange bunch with a unique fashion sense. We’ve had dudes and chicks busting tight jeans and cardies, we’ve seen booueys rocking to-the-knee-tees with oversized, meaningless words complimented by painted on skin-tight jeans, and beanies worn so far back they only warm the back of one’s head. Last winter, the ladies really thought outside the square with their fashion, indulging in the dark phase that was black stockings, black canvas shoes, black jacket and black mini skirt. Depressing huh?
But since late 2010, sockless boat shoes, ankle-skuxing and flat peaks have unfortunately, like tear-away pants and polar fleeces before them, become the craze. Shot boys.
Sockless boat shoes equal fucking stinky feet, and stinky feet are not a fashion statement. Countless lads around campus insist on wearing boat shoes daily (sockless of course), to the detriment of mainstream society. If you can’t bring yourself to being normy and mainstream, and you insist upon not wearing socks, at least leave your boat shoes, low-cut chucks, slip-on vans, warehouse canvas shoes, or your iheardtheyeatcigarettes dress shoes on your feet while in public spaces. Us sock-wearing types do not appreciate the pongy wrench that permeates from your steezyness. Inhaling your toe-jams while you’re scening and fiending at gigs leads to many not being able to keep-the-stoke. Sockless boat shoes are just salty in every sense of the word.
Ankle-skuxing originated on the catwalks of Europe where models, clad in designer clothes, brought the trend about. Female celebrities are now jumping on the bandwagon. Ankle-skuxing in Dunnas began with the lad and boouey crowd rolling their jeans up, typically showing roughly 2 or 3 centimeters of ankle. This is not to be mistaken for calf-skuxing, the notion whereby lads and booueys are taking it to the extreme and rolling their jeans halfway up their leg. Awkward. If you’re one of those who has transported themselves from the year 1890 (when ankles were considered hot and risqué) and you cannot resist rocking your ankles out in this free world, wear shorts and jandals. The only acceptable time to roll up the bottoms of your jeans is to stop them dragging in the rain. That is ok.
Flat peaks are for kids or trashy bogans who emulate American gangsters. ‘Nuff said.
Buy socks - simple as that. Wearing socks is like wearing undies; it’s normal and appropriate. It’s one of those things you just do. There are many benefits: no blisters, no stink feet, less sweat build up, it looks a lot better...it’s just what you do. You know who you are, you stink, so sort your shit out. Ankle-skuxing is horrific. Essentially you look like a young buck who went through puberty far too quickly and outgrew his pants. So roll your jeans back down lads, and please, don’t wear flat peaks. Chin up son.
The Lads
