Previously, we saw how charming and indispensible knee socks are to anime and similar, but recently I was surprised to see this collection of images showing knee socks (as well as similar garments such as stockings or thigh-highs) being worn by a variety of charming, and very much flesh and blood, young ladies.
I can’t have been alone in thinking that they hardly existed in three dimensions, but this appears not to be the case, though just how popular they are is an open question…
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Some of these seem to be stockings rather than knee socks, a few even with garters attached.
You’re quite right, but it seems the Vippers are happy with all going under “knee socks”, so who am I to argue?
Thigh-high might be a better catchall, but I never hear it in Japanese.
Actually I just came back from japan, spent july there, on summer. You can see girls with those socks everywere, it’s pretty common *-*