Pilates socks are having a moment, but not in the way you think. The toe-less pieces are stepping off the reformer and into the fashion world, commandeered by the cool-girls and repurposed into something entirely new. Almost sister to the leg warmer, the open-toe, open-heel sock is unlocking a fresh way for you to style yourself from the knee down.

Because of this, our very idea of what makes a sock has been flipped upside down. No heel, no toe, is it even still a sock? Where do we draw the line between sock, leg warmer, stirrup and studio gear? With inventive hosiery styling taking over feeds and runways alike, it’s clear that socks, or whatever these are , just got a major rebrand.

The emergence of the silhouette into mainstream fashion could be down to the current fixation with h

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