Everybody that I know wears socks with flip-flops, except females,” says Brandon Meriweather, an eight-year National Football League veteran who doesn’t limit that look to the locker room. When he shows up at the mall wearing dark sandals with white socks, Mr. Meriweather says strangers ask two questions: “Are you Brandon Meriweather?” and “Why are you wearing socks with flip-flops?
