Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of bobby socks.
Young women abandoned their bobby-sox and Capri pants for sexiness, especially the miniskirt—the paramount symbol of sexual liberation.
2008, Paul S[amuel] Boyer; Clifford E. Clark, Jr.; Joseph F. Kett; Neal Salisbury; Harvard Sitkoff; Nancy Woloch, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, 6th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 8982 more examples
When girls were not wearing their bobby-sox and pleated skirts, they often put on blue jeans that were rolled up to just below the knee and often decorated with painted hearts, horses, and other figures.
1999, Michael V. Uschan, The 1940s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades), San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 88–89Think back to the music of the period, to the way the girls looked in their bobby-sox, the way the boys looked in the V-necked sweaters. Horrible, right?
2010, David Kahane [pseudonym; Michael Walsh], Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108
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