wear black socks with their shorts, or socks with their sandals! Please! It's a cruel, cruel thing to do... so cruel, in fact, that I myself cringe with embarrassment every time I see a black-sock, short sportin' dude. It's just so very wrong on many fronts. Never was it ever so evident how many of these people existed but at Disney World. And if you wear sandals please take off your socks. It doesn't matter if they are black, blue or white. It doesn't matter if you came into your own in the 60s or 70s. We are now in another century and it is just so very wrong. I can only think of one person who could get away with his navy socks and brown sandals. Professor Stephen Thompson. He was my Freshman Comp teacher. And he taught other English classes as I sailed down the seas to my English degree. He also taught philosophy. He was one, hip, totally cool dude and perhaps the only one who could ever get away with such a fashion statement. It went with his crazy reddish hair and beard. He would not have been him had he not donned those socks and shoes. Although I never witnessed such, I could totally picture him with a reefer in his hand... inhale... exhale... think deep, deep thoughts! He was an A1 teacher! He was the reason I fell in love with literature and the written word. Never told him so. Wish I had. Of course I had fabulous, beyond fabulous Boston Blue Blood English Professors. They were To Die For. Loved by all. But it was Professor Thompson wild beard, sandals and socks who laid the foundation for what would be my path...
The other thing I saw in Disney that was entirely too wrong was a very large (and I do mean VERY LARGE) woman wearing an outfit covered entirely in miniature whales. I think they were blue whales on a green background... my eye was not really drawn to the actual outfit, just the tiny creatures upon the outfit and the person wearing the outfit. My heart went out to her. I should have pulled her aside like I would pull aside my friend had she had a piece of spinach in between her two front teeth or had she had a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of her shoe!
The other thing I saw in Disney that was entirely too wrong was a very large (and I do mean VERY LARGE) woman wearing an outfit covered entirely in miniature whales. I think they were blue whales on a green background... my eye was not really drawn to the actual outfit, just the tiny creatures upon the outfit and the person wearing the outfit. My heart went out to her. I should have pulled her aside like I would pull aside my friend had she had a piece of spinach in between her two front teeth or had she had a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of her shoe!