bobby-sox

bobby-sox pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of bobby socks.
   • 1999, Michael V. Uschan, The 1940s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades), San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 88–89:

     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.

   • 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 898:

     Young women abandoned their bobby-sox and Capri pants for sexiness, especially the miniskirt—the paramount symbol of sexual liberation.

   • 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:

     Think 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?