# Am I the only guy that sometimes wears mismatched socks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 2, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110 "2013-02-02T11:25:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@scmittenheimer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scmittenheimer)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/1 "2013-02-02T11:25:12Z")
Let it be known that I’m not very organized when it comes to socks. When I do laundry the clean socks just get thrown losely into a drawer until I pull out two random socks to wear each day. Not all the socks in the drawer are the same, so I often end up wearing a pair of mismatched socks. While I am not bothered by this at all, some of my friends have made it apparent that I should be. They seem to think that wearing a white sock with a grey toe and heal on one foot while wearing an all white sock on the other foot is unconscionable. I say who cares!
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/2 "2013-02-02T11:28:50Z")
As long as it doesn’t show, it doesn’t matter.
What does matter is it’s _loosely_ and _heel_.
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### Author:  [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/3 "2013-02-02T11:47:08Z")
I’ll go as far as same type different colour but no more than that. I’ll try to match if possible but orphan socks get put together when their original siblings get holes.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/4 "2013-02-02T11:48:06Z")
As soon as I moved out, pairing up socks was the first thing to go.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/5 "2013-02-02T11:59:34Z")
I wear odd socks on purpose every day. Each colour combination has a name.
Today it’s St Clements - yellow stripes on the left foot, orange on the right.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/6 "2013-02-02T12:03:30Z")
Actually, I only ever wear _one_ odd sock - the other one is matching.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/7 "2013-02-02T12:09:25Z")
I simply made black my standard color. Never a problem.
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### Author:  [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/8 "2013-02-02T12:17:34Z")
I cannot imagine a bigger waste of time than pairing socks. I don’t think most of my socks even are a pair, they’re just all different. It’s ok, according to this song they’ll find each other again in s[ock heaven.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SLtk2IDXE)
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/9 "2013-02-02T12:40:41Z")
My socks are in a pile, and I grab random socks as needed. I only wear white athletic-type socks. so it’s not obvious, but the odds that the socks I wear are similar in both style and color are vanishingly small. Right now, in fact, they are different.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/10 "2013-02-02T12:57:02Z")
I don’t care if none match, as long as they are the same length.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/11 "2013-02-02T14:47:14Z")
I wear mismatched socks. I don’t intend to, but I usually wait till the last minute to find my socks. So if I’m running late for work (which is often), then whatever I can find in the drawers is what will end up on my feets.
Only the secretary gives me a hard time about it. When I see her, she’ll make me pull up my pants legs so she can inspect my socks. No one else seems to notice or care.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/12 "2013-02-02T14:50:45Z")
I buy socks in bulk. 20 pairs of identical black socks can get mixed up however you like and there’s no problem; everybody’s happy!
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/13 "2013-02-02T14:52:49Z")
OTOH my hiking socks need to be paired up as the padding on them is in different places for the left and right foot.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/14 "2013-02-02T15:15:15Z")
They actually sell mismatched socks. I think they are aimed to teenage girls. But any rate they come about six to a pack and none of them match.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/15 "2013-02-02T15:41:31Z")
I have a simple rule: Always wear two socks.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/16 "2013-02-02T15:44:46Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Today it’s St Clements - yellow stripes on the left foot, orange on the right.
Oranges and lemons!
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/17 "2013-02-02T16:14:19Z")
i avoid this problem by dipping both my feet in the same can of paint.
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### Author:  [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/18 "2013-02-02T16:49:57Z")
Wow, I’ve never heard of people not pairing their socks. It’s not a particularly difficult or time-consuming task. If I didn’t, even trying to grab two navy blue socks (as opposed to navy blue and black) would be maddening.
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### Author:  [@steviep24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steviep24)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/19 "2013-02-02T16:55:00Z")
Could be worse, you could be wearing mismatched shoes.😛
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### Author:  [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-guy-that-sometimes-wears-mismatched-socks/649110/20 "2013-02-02T16:56:33Z")
Wearing two different kinds of sock drives me nuts. I can feel the difference in texture, friction, etc. between both feet and cannot get myself to ignore it. This is even the case for different “models” of sock from the same manufacturer.
As for color, I match them up if I am not in a hurry, but I don’t mind wearing two differently colored socks.
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