I’m So Confused by Hailey Bieber’s Single-Sock Look
glamour.com, which she styled with a single ankle sock and anklet. But why?This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The vibe these days is for one's fashion ballet shoes to look as similar as possible to actual ballet shoes, which is why styles with elastic straps like the ones Bieber wears in this pic are currently the coolest iterations seen on the streets. (You may have seen fashion elites wearing similar Miu Miu ballerina slippers around town.) We also know that Bieber has been leaning hard into balletcore lately, , , and modeling baby pink tutu-inspired minidresses.
So maybe the single sock is meant to evoke the look of athletic tape a professional dancer might wear on an injured ankle? , so she'd know better than me.I suppose what's fun about balletcore style is that you can take it in a variety of creative directions.
In the 2000s, ballet-inspired styles included little shoulder shrugs (my dad used to refer to mine as “”); in the ’90s everybody started wearing leotards (since rebranded as bodysuits) as tops; and the ’80s brought us leg warmers as streetwear (thank you, Madonna and Olivia Newton John).
And yet, somehow, I still just can't see the single sock thing catching on in the mainstream, no matter what Hailey Bieber says.By Kathleen WalshBy Kathleen WalshBy Alex KesslerMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast.
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