So, about your feet...

[FairyChatMom]

Do you wear socks, or not? Or do you wear them sometimes? Do you have favorite socks?

I wear them almost always when shod – I hate it when my feet get hot and stick to the insides of my shoes. I also hate to have cold feet, so I’ll pad around the house in socked tootsies all year around. And I think we can all agree that there’s nothing quite like a black, over-the-calf nylon-blend sock in an open-toed sandal to turn a head or two – especially as a contrast to winter-white legs…


<for the humor-and-fashion-impaired, the preceding was a feeble attempt at sarcasm>

But back to the original question – do you wear socks or not?

[tiny ham]

I....Hate....Socks.

I also HATE SHOES.

If it were up to me, I would always be barefoot, all the time. Even in the dead of winter, I walk around barefoot (in my house), and to get me to put on socks is like wrestling pantyhose onto a three year old girl.

I hate them I hate them I hate them. I think I own three pair of socks...TOTAL.

jarbaby

[Amazing Tiki God]

Whenever I am wearing shoes of course. With my sandals? Nope. It just looks silly to me. So in the summer I guess I wear socks about 50/50 and the winter always. Although I never wear them in the house.

[Amp]

I always wear socks, but the wierd thing is I wear socks even when I am naked. I don't like being totally naked, I need to have socks on. Nothing else, just socks.

[Spritle]

A presidentail son (Cooledge?) DIED because he wasn't wearing socks!! He played tennis with shoes but no socks, got an infection in his toe and later DIED!



You have been warned!!! :)

[tiny ham]

Originally posted by Spritle
A presidentail son (Cooledge?) DIED because he wasn't wearing socks!! He played tennis with shoes but no socks, got an infection in his toe and later DIED!


Great.

So if the alcohol, red meat, cheetos, caffeine, herniated discs, third nipple, too-low blood pressure, sun burns, clumsiness, military neck syndrome, history of cancer, tendency to slip in the shower, general lack of common sense or random airline disaster don't do it I've got to worry about toe infections.

GOOD WORK SPRITLE! You can just rock me to sleep tonight.

jarbaby

[romansperson]

I always wear socks. I don't have any sandals because I can't wear socks with them. You should thank me for wearing socks, as I have just about the sweatiest feet on the planet and my wearing socks is the only thing that stands between me and the rest y'all having to walk in puddles of my foot sweat!

(All together now .... eeeeeEEEEEWWWW!)

[Jonathan Chance]

I haven't worn socks in years.

Didn't wear them to my interview for this job.
Didn't wear them to the convention in San Antonio last week.
Didn't wear them in Chicago last Christmas.
Didn't wear them when I went to dinner with purplebear.

They're a tool of satan, children. Gimme an AMEN!

[Gunslinger]

I do. They're somewhat essential when one wears workboots 10 hours a day.

[Spritle]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
You can just rock me to sleep tonight.


Hmmm... Jarbaby wants me to rock her to sleep...

No THAT'S sig material!

[bughunter]

I have to wear socks or the shoes I wear develop an unbearable stench within a matter of days.

The same goes for sandals, even. In fact, sandals are worse, because the form-fitting soles get strapped so tightly to the foot that no air gets in to ventilate the soles of my feet.

But I love sandals, so I generally do wear socks with them. Ankle socks. In fact, the ones that I like the most were found in the ladies' sock department at Target.

[JavaMaven1]

Wearing big ole kitchen clogs necessitates the wearing of socks. Especially when I'm on my feet 10 hours a day.

Otherwise, I'm a barefoot, free-wheelin' mama, just like jarbaby. I honestly hate wearing shoes, especially because I trip in them. Really.

[FairyChatMom]

Ah, the trip hazard... If I wear anything with more than an inch of heel, I risk stumbling and twisting an ankle. I blame it on my mom - she didn't let me take ballet when I was little... <silent sob>

Now that I think about it, when I wear my terrycloth slippers, I don't wear socks. But the rest of the time, my delicate pedal extremities are properly garbed. Toasty toes are happy toes! :D

[fish in the sky]

I shudder at the thought of socks. I wear them ONLY in the winter (this IS Wisconsin, after all) but even then shoes & socks come off as soon as I get inside. If I need to wear shoes I'll wear sandles as often as the weather permits, but I go barefoot anytime I can get away with it (around the house/yard, school, work, shopping, etc. Where ever I won't get overtly yelled at.) Right now I haven't put anything on my feet (except a toe ring, does that count?) in several days. Sometimes in the summer weeks can go by that I don't wear shoes. :D

Go Barefoot! (http://www.barefooters.org/)

[Dark Lord Davidson]

Oh god yes, I wear socks. I'm never without them, unless I'm showering, or swimming. I dunno why, it just feels wrong padding around in bare feet. Then again, it does raise some questions when I'm swimming and my body is sun-browned but my feet are so bright white they're painful to look at. :D

[JavaMaven1]

Originally posted by FairyChatMom
Ah, the trip hazard... If I wear anything with more than an inch of heel, I risk stumbling and twisting an ankle. I blame it on my mom - she didn't let me take ballet when I was little... <silent sob>


I did take ballet when I was little, but little good it did me. Imagine a little chubby girl in the black leotard and pink tights, auburn hair pulled so tight in a bun it looked like I had a bad facelift.

I trip over my own feet when wearing Birkenstocks. A week ago, I was walking to work in my kitchen clogs, and I just stepped wrong on my right foot. I almost fell, but twisted my ankle in the process, hearing a pop pop when I did. :eek: It still hurts a little; it feels like I pulled a tendon. I don't want to think what would have happened if I was wearing heels.

[Fairy Princess Kitty]

I tend to walk around the house barefoot as often as possible. I hate shoes, can't stand them, don't really like socks, don't really hate them either.
Although...
This summer I've declared war. I have a sock tan from having to wear socks at school so now I'm refusing to ever wear them until it goes away.

Kitty

[Mercutio]

I always wear socks. Whenever I don't wear them my pinky toes get the crap beaten out of them. Both are them are in DEEP pain due to non-scok related injuries. Seriously.

[deepbluesea]

I loathe shoes, but I love socks. I mean, I love just owning them, in addition to wearing them; my LO gives me a new pair on the first of every month. (True!)

Indoors I prefer to be barefoot, no socks or shoes. But outdoors, socks are the way to go - they can act as a sort of intermediate step between shoes and bare feet, or they can be the analgesic that takes the edge of the misery of shoes. I will not wear shoes without socks; something must insulate my feet from the hard, cruel, torturous horror that is shoes.

Socks even dictate my shoe choice, to a certain extent. I haven't even owned a pair of sandals in years, because you can't wear socks with 'em. And high heels are the work of the devil, as far as I'm concerned. Not only are they painful, but I find it's the rare pair of heels that really works with socks. (Also, in my case, they're just begging for trouble; I'm clumsy enough without adding dangerous shoes to the mix.)

But socks...socks are cool. They're cushiony. They protect your feet without dominating them. They're often very nifty looking, and you can buy them in all manner of colors and patterns that you couldn't have on any other visible clothing item. And usually you can wear whatever kind of socks you want, since it's rare that people look at your feet, so even when you're forced to dress in nice clothing, you can let your true personality shine through on your feet. Socks make everything more fun; even laundry becomes a fun matching game when you've got lots of socks, and there's no thrill so cheap and easy to come by as the one that you get from reuniting a long-separated pair of socks.

In fact, I've just realized something: socks are the perfect article of clothing.

There's nothing so neat as cloth for the feet.

Socks!

[Barbarian]

I wear wool socks all year round-- running, hiking, playing squash-- wool socks. and Mrs.Barbarian wonders why I have the softest, nicest feet around...

In bed I wear cotton socks.

Life without socks is just plain wrong.

And this is the best comic strip ever.

http://www.goats.com/archive/000724.html

[Vinnie Virginslayer]

What a crazy subject! Let's see . . .

For non-leisure, I always wear colored cotton crew socks with shoes, no matter how formal the occassion; I never wear white socks because they just look gross on the sole with all the dirt they pick up, I wear gray instead, and even for work I wear dark crew socks. I never wear shoes without socks; the feeling of my feet squishing around in all that hot sweat is very, very uncomfortable, not to mention the stench is unbearable when the shoes come off!

I hate dress socks, and I hate walking around in dark socks with no shoes; I think it just looks silly, and it looks even more stupid when it's dress socks. Grey is the way!

By the way, GQ fashion tip: there's nothing more repulsive than a dude walking around with no shoes on, and it's even worse than when they have socks on. Guys, when possible, let the woman show off their beautiful shaved legs and feet- no one wants to look at your hairy white Fred Flinstone pods!

When I go out I prefer to wear sandals, but never with socks. Walking around the house, it always grey socks in the winter, bare feet in the summer.

Except when I go down to the basement to clean the kitty litter. Then I throw on a pair of flip flops. Something about getting those yellow Kitty Krystals stuck between my toes that grosses me out!

I also noticed early over the years that since sandals became popular in the 90s, I see a lot less people walking around long distances barefoot. Just an observation on American culture!

[plnnr]

At work - you bet. Black or dark blue over the calf socks. I even have a sock garter even though I never have used it. When the elastic goes, the pair goes. One cannot wear a suit without socks.

At play - depends. For the gym, white cotton socks that barely come to my ankle bone. For working around the yard in my work boots - longer cotton socks or ragg socks.

Around the house - nope. No socks, no shoes. Not even in the dead of winter. My temperature seems to run a little higher than normal so I'm very rarely cold enough.

With sandals - You're kidding, right?

I do happen to have a pair of red, cashmere socks I got as a gift, but I haven't figured out what to wear them with. Maybe I'll ask Van Johnson.

[FairyChatMom]

Red cashmere socks?? I am envious beyond words... Maybe if you get a red crushed velvet jumpsuit??









just to let you know - I've never been known for my fashion sense...

[plnnr]

You should have seen the look on my face when I opened the gift. "Wow, red socks.....................just what I've always wanted........." They are as soft as can be, though. I'll hang on to them a bit, just in case a red sock craze takes the country by storm. "Red socks? Hell, I've had a pair for years."

[FairyChatMom]

Originally posted by plnnr
... I'll hang on to them a bit, ...

When you decide you don't need to hang on to them any longer, please remember me!!!!

<hopeful puppy-dog eyes looking at you>

:D

[Cat Whisperer]

Count me in with the sock-haters. I wear them to work and when I'm going to be doing some walking; other than that, the minute I'm in the door from work, the socks are off. Even in the middle of a Canadian winter; no socks inside, ever. (Oh, and I want to brag a bit - my feet never smell. I'm so lucky :D)

[Scotticher]

Well, so about my feet. My mom always said...."Cheri, your feet are like little boxes." It is the fault of my toes, actually. I have small feet, but the toes? Well, my toes are....short, if one wants to be kind about the whole thing.

Last weekend, I ripped one of my toes open on a metal box in my kitchen. (Long boring story, which I won't put you to sleep with) The ER Doc said...."Hey, you need three stitches...but since you have snubtoes there will only be room for one.

Well, really.

Anyway, all of my life I have gone barefoot whenever I could. I think that barefoot is the way to go.

I not only hate shoes, I hate socks as well.

Scotti

[Darwin's Finch]

I wear socks outside (yes, even with sandals) because I have quite the opposite problem of Scotticher - very long, mutant toes. My 2nd toe is 3 inches long. My 'pinky' toe is 2 inches long. My big toe comprises fully 1/3 of my total foot length (which, oddly enough, measures one foot in length).

Inside, I do not wear socks because, really, I hate them.

[Scotticher]

Hey, honey...maybe we should get together?

We might manage to have kidlets with NORMAL toes....

[racinchikki]

Anytime I'm wearing shoes, I'm wearing socks. I like to wear ankle socks in odd colors. In informal situations, it's very rare for my socks to match my outfits; sometimes they dont' even match each other.

If I haven't put my shoes on yet, I'm probably not wearing socks. If I HAVE had my shoes on, I probably havent' bothered to take the socks off.

I don't like wearing shoes outside in the summer.

[Darwin's Finch]

Originally posted by Scotticher
Hey, honey...maybe we should get together?

We might manage to have kidlets with NORMAL toes....
:D

Don't even get me started about my fingers....

(For those playing along at home, this ...trait?...condition?...whatever is know as arachnodactyly - meaning "spider fingers")

I now return you to Sock Talk....

[irishgirl]

i own about 4 pairs of socks...and i can never find the darn things. all black. can't STAND white socks.ultimate turn-off. i don't wear shoes or socks indoors (or in the garden in summer).
part of the problem is my feet. little feet, high instep. UK size 3, european size 36, the size of your average 12 year old. everything in my size is HORRIBLE. they don't make the heels smaller, so i totter around in 3" heels with about 2 square inches of foot in contact with the ground. horrible.
and flat shoes make me look like a midget because i'm only 5' tall.
rather go barefoot and be blister-free and happy.

[Vinnie Virginslayer]

On the same subject, since there seems to be so many on this thread that hate wearing shoes, why do we anyway? People in many Third World countries don't wear any, and I guess you could say that it's warmer there, but whenever I see pictures of ancient cultures, even in Europe, a lot of people are walking barefoot. I mean, it's got to get cold in Italy and Greece!

[lolagranola]

I hate wearing socks. I start wearing sandals as soon as the snowdrifts start to melt, and don't quit wearing them until the snowdrifts start hitting ankle level. I wear sandals in the rain. I own many pairs of sandals, and have never worn socks with them. Despite my hatred of socks, I also hate going barefoot outside.

Socks on my feet feel so gross! I usually take them off as soon as I get home (middle of winter - the only time I wear them on a daily basis). I put them back on if my feet get cold, but rip them off as soon as I warm up. Therefore, in the winter, my living room is littered with discarded pairs of socks.

I do try to keep my feet looking good. I buff, moisturize, and polish.

And as a bonus, my last package of socks has lasted me 8 years, and the only pairs showing signs of wear are the ones my son borrowed.

[Whammo]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
I hate them I hate them I hate them. I think I own three pair of socks...TOTAL.

jarbaby

I bet your feet stink to. Don't they stinkeyfoot???

[FairyChatMom]

Just got back from a trek to the outlet mall with my darling daughter. Imagine my delight upon seeing Sock World!!! An entire store dealing socks of all colors, styles and lengths! I didn't buy any, but I immediately thought of this thread. How pathetic is that??

:D

[rocking chair]

i wear socks with shoes, not with sandals. i usually have bare feet in house, various animal slippers for the winter.

[Mr. Cynical]

I enjoy socks.

Ankle socks, that is. I don't find myself going for the tube variety any more.

Interesting note: My socks must fit my foot tightly. That is, there shall be no slack at the toe. I cannot STAND that. In fact, it even bothers me to see a sock on someone else's foot if it is not pulled tight. I have flipped out, held a friend down, and pulled his socks off because he was flip-flopping around to taunt me.

And, my shoe is size 14 US. ;)