Archived comment by Arlene:
And the left field is heard from.....
To no one's interest.

Archived comment by Saint:
...what?

Archived comment by Passerby:
fuck you stinl potszz

Archived comment by Ben:
Buy better socks (seamless, water wicking) for backpacking... it beats turning them inside out any day... yes 15 bucks for a pair of socks may seem high, but the feet still feel real comfy on day 4.

Archived comment by edd:
As for socks turned inside out, those are used for backpacking and hiking to avoid blisters. Works too.

Archived comment by edd:
I am suprised that the conversation has not shifted to shoes already. So here goes... I not only consider the socks I am going to wear, but I am also into shoes. I have shoes for every occasion (including different shoes for different sports). I love to go shopping as well. My SO says I have twice as many clothes as she does though I disagree. Are we still using the "SO" around here? I remember reading some discussion about using "SO" though I do not remember anyone recommending verbage otherwise...

Archived comment by mej:
Aren't inside-out socks more comfortable, anyway? The seams don't poke into your toes, right?

Archived comment by Mike:
Wait. Women judge me by my socks? Um, perhaps I should pay more attention to them, then. More as in any, of course.

My socks are worn indifferently. Inside out? Then they'll stay that way for months, if they ever get flipped at all. Yes I do wear them that way! So?

Other personal sock trivia: my socks are all white and I buy in bulk and they have been known to last for years. They get washed indifferently with other clothing, probably an after-effect of the childhood "they're all gonna end up gray anyway" can't-resist-a-marble-floor silliness which I seem to have retained. Cleanliness is all I look for in a pair of socks, but since I generally dress like a blind man I really don't think many women notice anyway.

Oh, and let us not forget the ultimate sock pleasure: coming in from the cold and snow, stripping off your wet boots and soggy socks, and pulling on a pair fresh from the dryer. Warm socks on a freezing day... (*faints at the pleasure of the memory*)

Damn, now I have this skit stuck in my head....

Archived comment by Ben:
So yesterday, I bought four new pairs of socks... Two were funky acorn (actually l.l. bean but fleecy is the point) ones, and the other two were funky wool ones. Right now, my feet are in a fleece friendly place.

Archived comment by KamiilYaan:
Funny about the sock comment: the same day Eve posted the quote I received a newsletter that gave this site (see namelink) a good review. I showed it to my boyfriend and he left it on the browser for an hour because he liked the music!

Archived comment by Jon:
Much ado about socks? I usually don't think about them much, except when I can't find a matching pair... unfortunately, the socks that I enjoy tend to wear out or get lost. *sigh*

There's something very comforting about slipping on a pair of toasty socks in the winter-time. Luxurious, even.

I was admiring my friend's smiley face socks this weekend. Apparently, those are trumped by the "Tigger" socks, though - I can't vouch for that myself.

Archived comment by nightfever:
Black, cotton socks. All of mine are black cotton socks. Unfortunately, they have been accumulated and thus are of different makes and lengths, so it makes sorting after a wash a bitch!!!

Denise, I prefer the way South Park slagged Rosie O'D in the Trapper Keeper episode...

Archived comment by Somnambulist:
15� C = 59� F
18� C = 65� F
-30� C = Frickin' cold! (-22� F)

Archived comment by daen:
It's bad enough to let a typo like "Inmtry" for "I try" escape me, without immortalizing it twice.

Archived comment by daen:
For two and a half years of college, I wore thongs (flip-flops, if you prefer that terminology) exclusively, and wore socks once a week, for going off-campus.
Immediately after, I stayed with relatives who kept the thermostat at 15 degrees Celsius (translation, someone, please?) at night, and 18 during the day. (This during one of the slightly-less legendary -30 C winters.) I went from no socks to two pairs of socks. I even slept in socks.
These days I live in a slightly warmer environ, and Inmtry to buy socks in twelve-packs, in black. I choose not to take the time to make little sock pairs.

Archived comment by daen:
For two and a half years of college, I wore thongs (flip-flops, if you prefer that terminology) exclusively, and wore socks once a week, for going off-campus.
Immediately after, I stayed with relatives who kept the thermostat at 15 degrees Celsius (translation, someone, please?) at night, and 18 during the day. (This during one of the slightly-less legendary -30 C winters.) I went from no socks to two pairs of socks. I even slept in socks.
These days I live in a slightly warmer environ, and Inmtry to buy socks in twelve-packs, in black. I choose not to take the time to make little sock pairs.

Archived comment by gargamel:
I can't stand wearing socks, absolutly abhor them. They make my toes feel constrained and my feet itch. Consiquently, I go without them at every opertunity and look forward to when they are threadbare and hole filled. Unfortunatly the cold winters of Northern Ontario (-60C with the wind, and I get to walk fifteen minutes in that four times a day) make them necessary(sp).

Archived comment by dave:
Black. I wear black thick wool socks almost religiously. Most of the time I even wear them when they I am running.

Though I have a few pair of plain white sports socks for those summer occasions when I have to wear runners with my shorts (as opposed to the preferred bare foot option)

Archived comment by nightwisp:
I know the exact socks you are speaking of Mej. My grandmother's feet are always freezing, so this past winter, as a joke, I bought her a pair of those socks. She loved them. She ended up asking for more pairs for Christmas (and got like 4 more pair). The ones in the namelink aren't quite the same as the ones I bought for her, but you get the picture. :-)

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
One of my friends wore rainbow toe socks with red high tops, and ended up looking like Ronald McDonald.

Archived comment by Somnambulist:
mej: I've seen those type socks before, but only
once.

I usually wear green socks. It dosn't matter
though; I normally wear high-tops or boot

Archived comment by mej:
This quote made me remember one of my friends from middle school. One chilly wintery day she pulled her feet out of her boots and proudly displayed her knee-length rainbow-striped socks. They had individual toes, so they were kind of like gloves for the feet; and each toe of the sock was a different colour. Weird, yet undeniably cheerful footwear!

Archived comment by guy incognito:
ben- you obviously must value socks way more than the "normal" person. i will be the first to admit than i'm anything but normal but find socks to be a quite thoughtless part of my life. i buy only plain white ones (some may have the grey heels or toes)

maybe im just missing out on something with the whole colored sock thing

Archived comment by Alex Andra:
Did i mention that i'm sad?

Archived comment by Alex Andra:
Oh sad is the creature that passes the time by talking about socks.

Archived comment by Montygirl:
Ben, may I recommend a rag-wool blend, with a touch of lycra to hold their shape? These are my favorite kind ... one cool thing about winter = I get to wear big comfy socks; another cool thing about winter is the weather.

Do you have any dress socks? Do the argyles count as dress socks? I mean, could you wear them with a suit, without Mindy cringing about accompanying you in public in aforementioned attire? Do you have a tie fetish equal to your sock addiction? nothing wrong with that, I love ties. (probably since I don't have to wear one.)

Archived comment by Ben:
Public confessionals of a sock purchaser.

Socks. Wool socks. Thick wool socks. I used to own a ton of them, every thickness, many colors, and many patterns. I had a few (maybe 3) pairs of "normal" white running socks which I only ran in. My wool and acorn sock collection however, was astounding. See the truth is, while yes, I'd never understood the shoe thing (and still don't), I'd always worn sandals, even in the snow during the winter (free your feet and your mind will follow). Yes, funky colored Tevas, thick wool socks (commonly two pairs for the layerd look), shorts (or jeans), and three shirts (t-shirt, a flannel, and a green pullover) were my normal atire year round...in Maine.

When I moved to SC, my sock collection became much smaller. While I didn't stop wearing wool socks, it was harder to find replacemnts that weren't blended. For a while I had friends (really) ship me socks. Then I just gave up and wore mine until they fell apart, chucking them as they became too damaged to be worn anymore.

When we moved back to Boston, I was happy - I'd be able to find socks again (that was actually a partial seller). Unfortunately, at the same time Mindy's grandfather passed on, leaving her grandmother with (among other things) an inordinantly large number of (very boring) socks.

Now, don't get the wrong idea, I did not take the socks off a corpse. I didn't raid his wardrobe, and I accepted nothing else. These were several (16) pairs of of unopened sock packages which had no where to go. Rather than see them go to goodwill, I took them (yeah, that's right - screw the homeless, these socks are MINE!). There were a few really cool argyle pairs, and so I figured I'd take them. So now, after two years, these socks are starting to show the wear, and I'm looking at being able to make another purchase of socks.

Archived comment by CindyLu:
MontyGirl - you should submit this to the Dilbert inventor's list!

Archived comment by Montygirl:
Denise, I agree - men who wear patterned socks put a little extra thought into their shopping/dressing, therefore, must be exceedingly interesting. Men who wear purple socks should be shot (yes, Donny, this means you!)

I had a Marie doll when I was a little girl, but my mom wouldn't let me have boy dolls.

Hey, wouldn't it be great if they would invent a monitor with a built-in tanning bulb option? That way, you could surf all day/night and look like you just came from the beach! (Of course, they would have to have an on/off switch, or some of us would be FRIED!)

Archived comment by Pan:
I am a fan of colored socks, AND I have glow-in-the-dark skin. I have considered tattooing socks on so that I wouldn't have to wear them anymore. Donny Osmond is gross and scary and probably stuffs his socks up his mormonesque butt after he's worn them for a week.

Archived comment by Denise:
I find men who wear oddly colored or designed socks to be sort of... intriguing.

Like there's more to them than you would suspect.

(Exception: Donny Osmond and the purple socks. I had Donny and Marie dolls when I was a kid and thought he was cool - but then he made that comment to Rosie O'Donnell that a helicopter wouldn't be able to lift off if she was on it- and I decided that he was a DIRT-BAG SCUM FREAK.)

Archived comment by Ben:
He was goth, they were black rainbow socks - you know differing shades of dismal grey? :)

Archived comment by Matt:
And this, the kind of thing I've seen too many times before, is the skewed logic that comes from spending too much time behind a monitor and not enough time walking around in the real world.

Dude, nobody's supposed to see your pasty-white, hair legs! Your pants are supposed to be long enough to barely expose your socks when you sit an cross your legs, don'tcha know.

I shake my head and sigh at these people.

Archived comment by Guy:

So what color were the socks?