Jared Leto Wore Slide Sandals with Socks, But Should You?

If there was ever a human exemption to every style rule, Jared Leto would be it. The actor and 30 Seconds to Mars front-man dresses like a shaman from another planet who spent the last fifty years living in a desert bio-dome. So successfully pulling off a pair of slide sandals with socks is far from his biggest fashion coup. But it’s time to dwell a bit on that decision. The outfit he wore to speak at a conference in Laguna Beach, California—ripped black jeans with pleather patches, a silk paisley-print shirt, and those plastic slide sandals with striped socks—was pretty tame compared to his standard all Gucci fare. Let us be clear: what Jared Leto wears to a work event should never be a gauge of what you (a regular man) can wear to a work event. But our interest is a bit narrower, here. Can you rock the socks-and-sandals look? And more importantly: should you?