It's that dreaded 'fashionable' word again. If we followed fashion we would all be playing in anti-fit jeans, wearing earrings, tattoos, studs through our tongues, lips and noses, and sporting spikey haircuts etc. Please let's have some standards. There are only too many people wanting to lower the standards in the interest of fashion, but nobody seems prepared to raise them, or even preserve them.
Ankle length socks are fine so long as they are sports socks in white. Definitley not the sports shoe liner you mentioned. They appear as though you don't have any socks on at all. If your Club has made a rule that only knee length socks are acceptable then you must adhere to it. If you don't think you look good in them, then don't wear shorts. You don't have to. I applaud your Club for making such a rule. It's their way of saying 'don't wear shorts.'
I, like birdieman, would not wear shorts on the golf course, simply because I am like 99% of other men - we simply do not look good in them.
