What did ballet dancers originally wear?

What are the type of socks that male ballet dancers wear with footless tights?

• sometimes they wear these white socks with footless tights and they're supposedly made of a different material and thinner than normal socks. i have a pair of footless tights that i want to wear to dance next week so i'm looking for those socks. does anyone know where to get them? i don't want to buy them from the internet.

• Answer:

  well defenty any ballet or dance shops or dance studios sell then trust me those shops and studios are all over america and Canada!! Or try walmart or Super store they have all the colors you can think of or if you want perfect ones order them over the phone from other contries or try going to Costco (i think that is only in Canada tho) They always have tons or new things or shearch in the phone book to find dance or ballet shops and call them and order or just look up the address or go and shearch for addresses of dance or ballet stores on the internet or ask the people from your dance class