This afternoon (and do not ask me who or why i decided to do this) I’ve been looking at socks. It is amazing how many places sell socks on the internet and I’d like to share with some of the sock treasures I’ve discovered.
First up is www.socks-in-the-city.com. This is a fabulously designed site selling socks for people who work in the city (hence the sex in the city style name). The ladies collection has socks ranging from “Weekend Tights” to “Voluptuous Stay-up”. As for the men, I decided to read some of the testimonies. My personal favourite testimony was from Phillipe, a pilot who says “We settle the plane temperature at a quite a low level. Therefore, I really appreciate the warmth of the wool and silk model. Its comfort is a additional advantage, especially for long flights.” (I’d like to point out the lack of an apostrophe in Its comfort. Tut tut Phillipe!)
So as you see, professional socks, for the professional ponce.
Next up was is www.strokesocks.com aka Stroke’s Striped Socks (Appropriate use of apostrophe – I’ll stop now). As you may have guessed from the title this place sells Striped socks and, let me tell you, these are some funky striped socks!!! My favourites are the Dijon striped ones (cos they look manky). It is also worth noting that all the socks are designed by a musician/producer called J. Stroke who DJ’s playing “Dub Reggae, Hip-Hop, Rare Groove, Dancehall, African Jazz, Brazilian, and various other styles for dance floor aficionados” in a similar vain to Mr Scruff it sounds (except this guys got a striped sock fetish and Scruff suffers from Tea & Pie addiction). Overall a fun fantastic place to purchase striped socks.
Finally (cos i got bored) I discovered www.socksfromholland.com, which sounded very promising at first. However, I found this place to be a bit of let down. Poor website design (something straight out of Microsoft word) and just bog standard socks. I was expecting something fabulous like “The Dutch NobbleStick Leg Warmer” but instead they do “Sports Socks” and other normal socks. I do like the fact they have a section for “Nylon socks” whereas all the other sections are “Men’s”, “Women’s” and “Children’s”.
Also worth noting is the website for The Bureau Of Missing Socks. Fun, with some interesting bits of information. En-diddly-Joy!!!
