# Boring Chairs? Too much money? Solution! ! ! :dubious: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161 "2010-01-08T14:52:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/1 "2010-01-08T14:52:43Z")
Chair socks. No, Really. Because we all have waaaayyyyyyy too much money. . . [Chair\_Socks](http://www.designspray.de/produkt.php?kat=57&id=368&sprache=en&WebsiteId=qde8km05gli28eq2qdmaq7r2n1) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/2 "2010-01-08T14:57:20Z")
This time of year, chairs need mukluks. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/3 "2010-01-08T17:11:34Z")
Why not? You can get scarves for windows - what’s wrong with socks for chairs? (BTW, I think both chair socks and window scarves are horrid!) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/4 "2010-01-08T17:13:05Z")
Is anyone else reminded of the supposed Victorian practice of putting trousers on chair legs, or is that just me? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/5 "2010-01-08T17:16:44Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Is anyone else reminded of the supposed Victorian practice of putting trousers on chair legs, or is that just me? Surely someone was being whooshed there? I can’t believe that they would have actually done that. Just goes to show that perversion is in the mind of the beholder, and no matter how far we try to cover up, it will never go away. (Actually, I’ve found that _un_covering is an excellent cure for these mental conditions. It removes all mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/6 "2010-01-08T18:39:17Z")
They’re argyle socks, I always thought they weren’t cool, so they wouldn’t look cool on chairs. I guess it’s better than white tube socks. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/7 "2010-01-08T19:00:14Z")
Why not? Beds have skirts, and I have never understood that one. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/8 "2010-01-08T19:09:37Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Why not? Beds have skirts, and I have never understood that one. I thought that was so you could hide the unsightly stuff like bedpans and laundry. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/9 "2010-01-08T19:11:31Z")
I can’t help thinking about the poor people in third-world countries . . . whose chairs have to go barefoot. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/10 "2010-01-08T19:17:23Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > I thought that was so you could hide the unsightly stuff like bedpans and laundry. It’s to keep the monster hidden. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/11 "2010-01-08T19:22:15Z")
I think I saw these the other day somewhere, and I assumed that in addition to any fashion statement made by the chair socks, they were supposed to have some function such as reducing abrasions on hardwood floors or some such. But maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/12 "2010-01-08T20:08:29Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > They’re argyle socks, I always thought they weren’t cool, so they wouldn’t look cool on chairs. I guess it’s better than white tube socks. Argyle socks? Clearly, they’re to hide the Argyle gargoyle. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/13 "2010-01-08T20:33:34Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > They’re argyle socks, I always thought they weren’t cool, so they wouldn’t look cool on chairs. I guess it’s better than white tube socks. [Tube\_Socks](http://www.designspray.de/produkt.php?kat=57&id=368&sprache=en&WebsiteId=qde8km05gli28eq2qdmaq7r2n1) ETA: Hmmn its not linking directly, but click the views at the bottom and you’ll see them. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/14 "2010-01-08T20:51:54Z")
You people are just too pampered. [Here in Cleveland](http://www.heightsarts.org/publicart/), we crochet cozies for our parking meters and trees. It’s freaking cold out there! ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/15 "2010-01-08T21:05:29Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Is anyone else reminded of the supposed Victorian practice of putting trousers on chair legs, or is that just me? It was a whoosh. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion), the easiest one to find: > [@](#): > > There is no actual evidence that piano legs were considered scandalous. Pianos and tables were often draped with shawls or cloths—but if the shawls hid anything, it was the cheapness of the furniture. There are references to lower-middle-class families covering up their pine tables rather than show that they couldn’t afford mahogany. The piano leg story seems to have originated in Captain Frederick Marryat’s 1839 book, Diary in America, as a satirical comment on American prissiness. Apparently Americans picked it up and turned it around, joking about the prudishness of the English. Furniture _was_ commonly swathed in drapery, but not just because it hid cheap furniture–also because everyone was using fires for heating, and cloth is much easier to clean than wood and brick. If you covered your mantlepiece with drapery, you didn’t have to scrub the soot off the mantle nearly so often. I should also note that all those layers of clothing were considered very alluring. Besides the tight corseting that showed off the figure, you could imagine all those layers coming off…one by one…very titillating. Covering something up is a sure way to make it more interesting–and sometimes I wish some modern people would remember that… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/16 "2010-01-08T23:05:02Z")
I don’t know about chair socks but I just wasted 2 hours looking through that website. How cool is some of that stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/17 "2010-01-09T02:06:02Z")
We all know that after a few weeks, one of those socks will end up missing. The Missing Sock Monster doesn’t discriminate. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/18 "2010-01-09T18:49:22Z")
It is only a matter of time until Manolo Blahnik comes out with leather **chair shoes** at $1200 each. Just make sure you don’t put white chair shoes on your chairs after Labor Day. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/19 "2010-01-10T16:29:24Z")
You have to be careful; knitters and crocheters will make [cozies](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lyuM40seo5E/SbqBSfw2WlI/AAAAAAAADkE/CdSFp8oiNaQ/s400/pinkguncozy.bmp) [for](http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-10/knitted-motorcycle-theresa-honeywell.jpg) [anything](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/2783628895_4151c69119_m.jpg) that will stand still long enough. Me, I made one Nintendo DS cozy and forced myself to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161/20 "2010-01-10T21:45:34Z")
I think those socks are kind of cute. I may just have to make some. Looks better than old tennis balls. I’ve made a Nintendo DS cozy as well. I was rather proud of it–it was the first thing I designed by myself. It had a carrying strap and pockets for game cartridges and you could plug in the charger without taking it out of the case. I gave it to my sister–I can’t keep everything, you know! I’m wearing argyle socks today, too. Perhaps I’m just totally odd. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-chairs-too-much-money-solution-dubious/524161.md?page=2)