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Plain Black socks can never be wrong. / -- _The Gentleman of Letters in "Vanity Fair. "_
Lords of Fashion may disagree / On the question of questions, what to wear / At _déjeuner_, dinner, dance or tea, / "Feed informal" or "Smart affair. " / Let not the neophyte despair / Dreading disdain of the gilded throng / Hark to the dictum of Vanity Fair / "Plain Black Socks can never be wrong."