# Socks. A n opinion solicited.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 24, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511 "2007-04-24T21:19:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/41 "2007-04-27T05:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Honey]
If I were verrry wealthy, they _would_ be disposable. I would wear a brand new pair of socks every day. Ahhh..new cushiony socks.
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I thought about this one day, and when you buy those bulk packs of socks, they cost about a buck a pair. I used to wear my socks till they were holy, then patch up the holes and keep wearing them until they were threadbare, but that revelation has freed me to wear them a reasonable length of time, and just throw them the hell out. I’m liberated, baby!
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/42 "2007-04-27T17:02:50Z")
The socks I bought were $8 for 12.
Great deal.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/43 "2007-04-27T17:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lunar Saltlick]
Throw away the socks. Wear the plastic bags.
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Ever have your mom have habits that seemed valid to you in the bubble of you home life, but then have the outside world look at you funny? Mom had us put bread bags over our socks and then put on our rain or winter pull-on boots. The bags made them easier to pull off. This was lost on the other kids who gave us the stink-eye.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/44 "2007-04-28T00:58:37Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun]
My husband wears techhie-type socks. We buy them on line to save a few bucks. I think they run about $13/pr. He loves them. And they’re always gray; never white. That’s just wrong unless you’re running or something.
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$13 a _pair_? $13 a _pair_? I have \*shoes \*I didn’t pay $13 for.
Oh, as to the OP - don’t wash them. I don’t even wash my underwear fresh from the packet. Everything loses that softness after the first wash.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/45 "2007-04-28T01:17:35Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
$13 a _pair_? $13 a _pair_? I have \*shoes \*I didn’t pay $13 for.
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Same here. I can’t imagine getting $12 benefit from any pair of socks no matter how fancy.
I bet they drink Evian, too.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/46 "2007-04-28T04:28:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> No, no, no! Wait until they have holes, then wear them inside out . . . so the holes are on the inside. They last twice as long that way.
I have a friend who actually does this. Well, almost. He wears them until they start getting a hole in the heel, then he turns them over so the worn spot is in front, where it hardly gets any wear at all. So his socks do actually last twice as long.
Personally, though, I don’t think they’re very comfortable that way, so when mine get a heel-hole, I give them to my mom for use for rug weft, and get new ones. Incidentally, old socks make very nice rugs.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/47 "2007-04-28T05:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
Yes, he’s retired and slightly nuts.
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Slightly? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/48 "2007-04-28T05:30:17Z")
Wash, then wear. Who knows how clean the sock smithy was, or what chemicals they still bear from environmentally unsound Third World cotton fields?
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/49 "2007-04-28T11:25:20Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
$13 a _pair_? $13 a _pair_? I have \*shoes \*I didn’t pay $13 for.
Oh, as to the OP - don’t wash them. I don’t even wash my underwear fresh from the packet. Everything loses that softness after the first wash.
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Yeah, he’s a sock freak, alright. They don’t even look comfortable. I do the laundry, and they’re not soft and cushy. But he’s had some foot problems and he seems to think this helps. There’s no talking to him. These are his favorites, but we found them a bit cheaper on another site: [Merino Wool Socks & Apparel in the U.S. | Smartwool®](https://www.smartwool.com/?sponsor=google-smartwool-socks-exact&gclid=CLPc0ean5YsCFQlQWAodMVLsVQ)
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/50 "2007-04-28T13:48:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
Please tell me they’re not white gym socks though. No man should wear white gym socks, ever.
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What, not even at the gym? That’s where I wear mine. Then I take them off and replace them with regular black socks to go home. 🙂
I buy McGregor Happyfoot socks. They last decently long and are very comfortable.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/51 "2007-04-28T13:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
Whadda ya talkin’ about? Everybody knows black dress socks are for sandals.
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No, no. Multicoloured felt _sandal socks_ are for sandals. At least among the hikers at Mountain Equipment Co-op.
> [@panache45](#):
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> No, no, no! Wait until they have holes, then wear them inside out . . . so the holes are on the inside. They last twice as long that way.
But doesn’t that mean that the holes will be pointing inwards from some unknown dimension instead of outwards from your foot? Whenn they’re pointing outward, sweat can escape. When they’re pointing inward, who knows what will cozy up to your foot?
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-a-n-opinion-solicited/401511/52 "2007-04-29T17:46:41Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
Ever have your mom have habits that seemed valid to you in the bubble of you home life, but then have the outside world look at you funny? Mom had us put bread bags over our socks and then put on our rain or winter pull-on boots. The bags made them easier to pull off. This was lost on the other kids who gave us the stink-eye.
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Yup. That was usually reserved for when the rubber boots got a hole and we couldn’t afford new ones yet. Gee, wonder where I got my fiscally conservative habits from? 😃
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