ルーズソックス

noun

loose socks; baggy white socks

Specifically refers to the loose, often white, knee-high socks popular among Japanese schoolgirls in the 1990s and early 2000s. A wasei-eigo term derived from English 'loose socks'.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from loose socks

• 90年ねん代だい、女じょ子し高こう生せいの間あいだでルーズソックスが大だい流りゅう行こうした。

  In the 90s, loose socks were all the rage among high school girls.

• 彼かの女じょは制せい服ふくにルーズソックスを合あわせていた。

  She wore loose socks with her school uniform.