black fencing socks?

[Shinji]

Does anyone know if you can use black fencing socks in competitions? Is it ok, or do they need to be white?

[Inquartata]

Should be OK as long as they'll cover the gap up to your knickers. 've seen people wearing other colors, even one guy with one red, one blue...

Then there's Sam...

[Shinji]

Thanx, this helps a lot.


Sam? I don't get it...

[Peach]

Sam wears purple.

[arcon]

Ive seen many different colors in competition. The only color i didnt really care for was pink.

[Artisan]

but then there is the DORK factor....
unless you have a matching black glove and black fencing shoes, in which case you'd better win often and by large margins...

[lochinvar]

Originally posted by Artisan
but then there is the DORK factor....
unless you have a matching black glove and black fencing shoes, in which case you'd better win often and by large margins...

I thought just wearing the kit was enough of a DORK indicator. Now you tell me there are ways to even make that Dorkier??

(I gotta get out more...)

[MyraTrue]

hey, don't diss my socks!

I myself am seen to sport a pair of black socks with a gold band at the top. I've never been asked to fence in white socks, even at the one international tournament I fenced. They actually thought my socks were rather funny... that, and that I wanted to fence in the mens epee division. I do own a pair of whites, tho.

And just because my shoes, socks and glove don't match... are you calling me a dork? I prefer geek, if you would be so kind...

[mejc]

At inter uni comps we just done the socks of the footy team and wear them! Looks pretty kool seeing green & white, blue and gold etc. running around the piste

[canthidefromme]

Fencing in the dark with little LEDs on weapon tips would look cool, but can you say corps a corps?

[broncofencer]

Viginia tech's fencing club uses different color socks to symbolize each fencers ranking each letter is a different color and U's wear white. I personally like the tye dyed ones.

[lochinvar]

I usually wear a pair of bright orange socks (think Syracuse or Texas A&M orange) for comps, but I've also been known to wear "bumblebees" (black with narrow yellow stripes) from time to time...

[MyraTrue]

I once fenced a girl in epee who had these very cool tie-died green and blue socks. I admit I like the look of white socks best, but have no problem with colors. I like it as a team. Although its funny people can ID me by my socks.

I moved from Indiana div. to Inland Empire, and the first thing that happens is I run into a pair of fencers with NorthWestern's socks... a dead giveaway where they'd fenced.

[pammie003]

I have a pink, white and blue striped pair, as well as a purple and green argyle pair. I also own a white pair.

In Germany I was asked not to wear the coloured ones, but here in Canada, no one seems to have a preference. RMC (Royal Military College) fences in bright red socks. It makes them easy to find at the tournaments and makes them really look like a team.

[canthidefromme]

All people should have their name on their lame, jacket, or knickers. Otherwise it goes something like this:

"Hey, how'd you go in pools?"
"Eh, ok... the guy in the blue socks beat me"
"Him?"
"No, the blue socks and the gold lame"
"Oh you mean Clinton?"
"He's named Clinton? I thought he was Bush"
"huh..."

[Elendae]

I have Hello Kitty socks. They're quite fun.
One of the local colleges wear rainbow striped socks/leg-warmers.

[Marcos]

A woman turned up at the salle last night with new, black, fencing shoes - looked pretty good

not sure about socks tho

[MyraTrue]

canthidefromme, I'm too poor to pay for the stenceling... and I'm not that good a fencer yet. But I've been refered to as the "One with the Adidas socks on the wrong feet" before. I can't help it... holes in the toes are a pain, so if you switch feet...

But are fencers REALLY so stupid they need (R) and (L) printed on their socks so they get them on the right feet? *lol*

[Nusy]

Why couldn't you wear coloured socks? My friend wears a pair normal PBT fencing socks, and on the top of them, she wears a Garfield-patterned and a Winnie-the- Pooh patterned one... She lloks quite funny and original, because she wears a PBT Ice Blue Inox lamé with her full name (but not her surname, but the nickname, Kriszti) written - not in Hungarian order, but in English (not family name- surname, but surname-family name). Original!
Nusy

[MyraTrue]

I think (and I admit to being too lazy to try to find the reference in the rules) there is something said about logo's and the maximum allowable size, where they may be located, etc. I think they say something about how team colors may be on socks, but have to be restricted to the top several inches or some odd such.

While I liked my black and gold socks (I didn't have to spend money to buy others, which was nice) I do own whites. I don't know that I've ever been told no, but it might be possible all the same if someone REALLY had a problem.