White socks
Hermann is a lot more like his father than he would like to admit. I've never met his father but I've walked around town with Hermann occasionally in the summer and I'm always shocked to discover that he would never think of wearing sandals without having put on a pair of those ridiculous white athletic socks first. I suppose it has to do with cleanliness or Ordnung or something like that. It's not a subject one can breach easily. You know, from man to man and all that. It's sure not a subject that I'm going to breach. I suppose they keep his feet clean, though.
