I suppose maybe we could get in touch with IAAF to get your fashion advice so that every runner can dress exactly in the way you would including the same haircut. This is hilarious to me. He probably wore them because he felt it would help his performance that day. Then he went out and ran 12:58. Don't you get that? Fashion just became more important than performance to you. You're the dilweed who has placed the emphasis on the wrong thing. To Teg, he didn't care what he looked like, as long as he was out there mixing it up and running fast. Like a previous poster said, if wearing a pink bunny suit allows Teg to run 12:58 then he should do it (thank god that is not the case). Solinsky's socks are a compression sock used mainly as a tool for recovery after the race, which helps his performance in the long term. He does not wear them for fashion. Whether it is blue collar, white collar, old school, new school, alter g treadmill, hill repeats, altitude, nike dualist, zoom victory, or whatever it's fine with me as long as they are working their asses off and racing tough to achieve HUGE goals.