Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:31 pm
I like the seamless teo.
Good thing I don't rely on my socks for grammar advice.
Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:33 pm
hahaha.
I cant wear short ankle socks. They feel really weird to me. Growing up in the 70s I had those striped tube socks to my knees. Crew socks are as shot as I can go.
Worn tall socks all my life. So much so that each leg from the pointy part of the shin bone out to the side has no hair at all on my leg. Almost to my knee. Guess not enough sunlight and fertilizer
I was the same way for a long time. As a kid in the 70s and 80s I wore the same striped knee socks as every boy did. From the time I was about 14 until I hit 30, I only ever wore boots. Hiking boots when I was younger, then combat/tactical boots at work, and that meant socks that matched the length of the boot. I didn't even like sneakers, as I was used to footwear that was strapped to my leg and gave me a lot of control. Non-tied shoes like sandals? Forget it. Then I went on disability, and couldn't justify the expense of boots. Cheap sneakers you can wear comfortably. Cheap boots? Not so much. So sneakers it was, or barefoot when around the house. I also finally started wearing shorts in the summer (something I didn't do from the time I was about 12 until I was well beyond 30), mostly because of the hot Indiana summers. Know what looks like ass? Boot socks with shorts, at least when it isn't Oktoberfest. So I went with over-the-ankle socks. And I survived, and they were more comfortable and cooler, and the extra six inches I was missing... wasn't really doing anything. I had mostly kept wearing boot socks out of habit, and avoided trying anything else for so long that I didn't really get that I was making myself less comfortable - and hotter.
One time five or ten years ago I picked up some new socks, and bought the wrong kind. I ended up with ankle socks. I swore, but wore them for a while. And found I preferred them.
When it comes right down to it, socks are there to provide some cushion (which only happens inside the shoe), absorb sweat (again, inside the shoe) and protect your skin from the shoe (and once more, only applies to where the shoe covers.) With the exception, I'll admit, of dress socks which can serve to cover our pasty ankles when wearing them fancy duds.