Bobby soxer is a 1940s sociological coinage describing the often very zealous fans of
traditional pop music, in particular its creators like singer
Frank Sinatra. Bobby soxers were usually
teenage girls and young adult women from about 12 to 25. Fashionable adolescent girls wore
poodle skirts and rolled down their
socks to the ankle. In high schools and colleges, the
gymnasium was often used as a ; however, since street shoes and street detritus might damage the polished wood
floors, the students were required to remove their shoes and dance in their
bobby socks, hence the phrase "
sock hop".