“I have been in meetings where people look down and notice my socks, and there is this universal sign, almost like a gang sign, where they nod and pull up their pant leg a little to show off their socks,” said Huntre Wak, 38, a director of product management at YouTube, whose favorite pair is yellow, aqua and orange striped. It’s like a secret handshake for those who have arrived, and for those who want to. It signals that you are part of the in crowd. In a land where the uniform - jeans, hoodies and flip-flops - is purposefully nonchalant, and where no one would be caught dead in a tie, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personaity. And for today’s tech entrepreneurs in high-flying Silicon Valley, it is flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned socks. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads. For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs.
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