Ankle
socks worn by
teenage and
pre-teen girls in the late
1940s and
1950s. The socks were usually white and folded at the
ankle. Sometime spelled as:
bobbysocks,
bobby sox,
bobby-sox,
bobbysox.
The girls wearing the socks were known as bobbysoxers, a slang nickname which came to encompass practically all teenage girls at the time. Also see: sock hop.