Fancy Dress Sock – Beaded Foot Strap

For spring and summer, foot tubes area a hot item. Designers are adding a touch of fashion with patterns, designs and colors that peak out of the shoe and can be matched with apparel.

One thing we are doing in a big way for spring or summer items is foot adornment, says Kayser-Roth\'s Eskenazi. We started with the foot tube which is a very practical thing providing comfort and fashion with a speck of color showing out of the shoe.

Then, we started making them in different patterns like dots to show outside the shoe.

HUE has tuned into the accessory trend in a big way with what could be called foot jewelry. For spring, 2003, the brand is offering beaded foot straps and Moroccan foot thongs that can be worn with summer shoes like flip flops or alone with bare feet.

The beaded foot strap is a strap adorned with Indian-like beads that straps around the ankle and around the toe. The company also is offering a fringed beaded thong that lays on top of the foot.

For Liz Claiborne, Wells Hosiery is making opaque and sheer tubes that come in bright colors and patterns. Paul Lavitt Mills also is making tubes in different colors and designs.

They are like a bracelet for the foot.

Wells Hosiery also is making tubes with screen-printing on the bottom that offers non-skid properties in fashionable and fun look.

Wells Hosiery is making yoga socks in bright colors with stripes and patterns as well as traditional blacks and toe socks in both anklet length and tubes that show color and pattern outside the shoe. They come in hot pink, turquoise, limelight and lilac.

It is all about accessorizing and wearing something that is not mundane.

Say you have a pair of black capris and a lime colored shirts, you could wear this with the lime color sticking out of the shoe.

Also for spring, open weave anklets pair well with capris as do dressy socks. Patterns will still be important in the sheer category, but they will be in open weaves in anklets, knee-highs and tights.

Anklets will go well with any type of pants and dress capris. Some have a picot top and some have a ruffle edge and would go well with a dressier capri.

Paul Lavitt is making an open fishnet pattern that can be worn alone for spring and summer and worn over an opaque tight for fall and winter. Changing the color of the opaque tight can totally change the look.

On the runways, dressier socks are paired with open toe heels and with shoes not normally worn with socks like open-toe slides, high-heel pumps and sling-back heels and being worn with short skirts and dresses. Designers say they expect the trend to take root in the more fashion-forward areas of the country.

We have seen a trend with strappy sandals and a soft sock or a sheer anklet of sorts so that the pattern will show through the open part of the shoe, says Troup. We have a nylon sock that has a pattern design of diamonds or flowers that can be worn with anything from a dress heel to a pump.

Also see; fashion ankle socks.

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Rony Swede is a successful author and regular contributor to http://www.socks-n-socks.com. Having indulged in countless sporting activites over the years, Rony is a self-appointed expert on socks and enjoys sharing his insights with consumers.

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