They would if you had a match.
I told you, I wear odd ones.
I have holes in the bottom of my socks, doesn’t bother me at all. The reason I don’t get new socks is because they are still usable, and because I have all of one type of sock which makes it easy to sort them. Even if I get the same type of socks again they tend to be a bit different in size so I have to spend more time sorting them.
My husband has socks with holes in them and it doesn’t seem to bother him. When I notice them - mainly when doing laundry, I’ll cull them from the intact socks, and at some point, I’ll buy him a new sack of socks and toss the old ones. I don’t think he thinks about stuff like that.
I tend to get holes in the toe since my left foot is a tad longer than my right foot and it rubs against the toe of my shoe. Since I primarily wear either black or white socks, I buy them by the bag and I get rid of the holey ones, wearing the rest till they get holey. Since they’re all the same style, I don’t end up with odd socks till the very end! 
My response (it’s not weird at all) is colored by the fact that my dad not infrequently wears socks with holes in them. He doesn’t notice, until he’s sitting in his chair with his feet up, and we pick on him.
Sometimes Mom will throw away socks that seem to be getting holier than normal. Otherwise, Dad tends to shrug off holes, toss the socks in the laundry hamper, and not notice until he’s already wearing the socks again, at which point the cycle begins again.
And frankly–unless my socks are handknit–that’s the way I tend to go myself, unless the specific hole is annoying. And I’m female.
…when the wearer is world bank president.. Er… former president.
Was he sending a secret message to lenders and borrowers?
It doesn’t. But that would be my first assumption as to why he’s wearing socks with holes.
I won’t wear socks with holes in them but still answered I’m a man - It’s not weird at all because I know half a dozen men who don’t seem to care.
I was on a Southwest flight on which the flight attendents held a contest to the person with the biggest hole in his or her sock. The finalists were all normal-looking guys and there were some unbelievably gigantic holey socks. This was pre 9/11, so before you had to take off your shoes going through Security. I suspect 9/11 helped sock sales.
If I discover a hole while I am dressing I sometimes continue dressing but throw the sock out when I remove it. I tend to buy about 1 dozen pairs at a time of the same color about 1 time a year.
I’ve had people mock me for trying to darn my socks myself. Decent dress socks, knee high (or at least mid-calf) like I like them, can be expensive; but in their mind, a pair of cheap ankle length flea market socks should serve the same purpose, why don’t you just run to the flea market and get some of those, you big silly?
I usually wear two pairs of socks when it starts getting cold. If at least one of the socks on each foot is whole, I don’t see an issue.
The socks with holes don’t tend to survive a laundering by the Lovely and Talented Mrs. Shodan, as she picks them out and throws them away or uses them as cleaning rags, so it doesn’t really matter for long.
EtA: I buy large numbers of socks, all of the same kind and color, so they don’t have to be sorted. And if one develops a hole, throw it and save the other. Then make a new pair when another sock springs a leak.
Regards,
Shodan
I do the same thing. He keeps insisting he doesn’t mind the holes, or the fact that you can see his entire heel right through the worn fabric. He hates throwing anything out. I fix what I can fix and I toss the really bad ones, and he’s either not noticed or decided to let it slide.
It’s not that I think it’s weird, but I do think that socks full of holes imply that the wearer is too lazy or too poor to buy decent socks when old ones start to fall apart. A single toe hole isn’t as big a deal to me, because that can happen over the course of the day and there’s not much you can do about it unless you carry a spare pair. But threadbare, worn socks? Just buy new ones!
It’s not weird, in the sense that it’s pretty common for guys to wear socks with holes in 'em. It’s a bit weird, in the sense that the average sock is pretty cheap to replace.
If I notice the hole, I usually put the sock aside with the full intention of throwing it out later. Later it ends up back in the laundry.
This will happen ten or twelve times before the sock actually gets thrown out.
Oddly enough, I never get holes in the toes of my socks - only at the pad of the foot.
Yeah, I figure this is a man thing. I bug my boyfriend all the time about holes in his clothes, and he doesn’t seem to care much. Once the seams at the crotch of one of his cheap-ass shorts came apart, and he STILL wore them around the house.
You are obviously not a man. I have plenty of socks, but I wear the ones with holes because they still work as socks. My wife eventually throws them away. Otherwise my basket full of socks will contain a mix of socks with varying numbers of holes. You probably care if the socks match while I have the simple rule “Always wear two socks”.
My intact sock supply is running low so towards the end of the week I’ll be wearing holey socks, but only on one foot*
I have some holey socks because getting new socks means going to the third floor of M&S and waiting behind people who stand still on the escalator!
- The left** foot.
** Why left? 'cause the holey sock goes on first.
I HATE socks with holes. If I put on a sock, and it is close to getting a hole, that sock goes into the trash immediately. I have, on multiple occasions, went out from work to buy a new pair of socks because I had missed a bare spot or hole when I put them on in the morning. Socks are cheap; in my mind, there is no reason to wear holey ones.
Having said that, I wouldn’t vote weird, because I don’t know whether I am the weird one or the guy wearing the holey sock is the weird one.
To me, once they have a hole at the toe they’re no longer “perfectly good socks”. 
I picked a “a tad strange, but okay”, because it’s not something that I see as all that big a deal, just unusual.