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| 26 DEC 2005 at 3:10am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I think it depends on your definition of matching!
I generally wear white socks. They aren't always from the same pair, but the colors match - assuming you consider whote to be a color...
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| 26 DEC 2005 at 11:11am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Batchelors are a helpless breed, aren't they? [smiley=rofl.gif]
There is an event in Australia called 'odd sock day', when they raise money for charity. It's like 'red nose day' and 'go casual day'. People at offices, do the daft thing and donate a dollar or two and the money then gets donated. I approve of fun behaviour.
I've always understood the principle behind choosing socks was to pick something that would blend with the shoe and the pants when dressing formally. white for sport and colours for anything else, especially denims.
However, sartorial rules are only conventions. Break them and be happy. Public nudity is the exception. Break that and be arrested...... [smiley=rofl.gif]
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| 26 DEC 2005 at 11:32am |
| Deleted User | I come from a big family, where sock pairs stray far away from each other on a regular basis. Newly washed socks would end up in a big basket, where they'd be sorted from time to time, but mostly you'd just start digging around in it for a reasonably matching pair. Odd socks would often find their match in the basket eventually but sometimes there's just no hope left and when it became too difficult to find a matching pair in the basket some of them would have to be disposed.
I wear mostly black socks, and when I buy new ones I buy more than two of the same kind. What's the use of a pack of socks with varying colors for each pair, honestly? My mum is known to take the liberty to pick such packs apart in the store and combine with others in the bin to get a pack of socks with all the same color. Call it sock anarchy, but it's actually a much nicer purchase because you can lose one sock and still find matching pairs to wear.
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 2:14am |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I like my socks to match.
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 2:19am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | When I was a teenager I wore thigh-high woolly socks, all striped in different colours, with separate toes - with a skirt. [smiley=rofl.gif]
Almost all my winter socks are black but I have sewn tiny coloured buttons onto them so I can tell which two are a pair and it also stops Hubby from nicking my socks. He meanwhile has a pile of black socks that he's abandoned all hope of matching into pairs. I suppose I'll have to do it. :
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 6:34am |
gailSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Indeed, before we wore mini-skirts, when showing garters was thought to be so risque.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 11:26am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | [size=12]Oi! Gail!
For your information, the stripey toe sock craze was in 1976 - mini skirts went out in '74. We had the 'new line' in then, slim hips, flaring just above the knee. Jeepers girl..... you are old, your memory's screwed up.
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 9:59pm |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I prefer comfy, casual, white cotton socks. Unless I have to dress up a bit for work, then I've got ones that are a bit fancier ... black in color, with a design of flowers or something similar.
I prefer the white ones, because if they get worn out, they're easier to replace. If something's unique, I get attached to it.
Either way, I like my socks to match.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 12:32am |
RckaseaIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Me, boring sweat socks, Hanes.
I knew a guy in High school that always wore two different socks.
I mean he was a snappy dresser and all. One red, one blue
One striped, one white, this was his fashion statement.
Now for a QRS(quick Rick story):
My youngest son Sam, grabbed a pair of toe socks( you know, socks with each toe,
like gloves are to mittens) from his girl, as it was bowling night and no clean socks.
Well, he did get razzed a lot. When it was his turn to buy a pitcher of beer, the lady bar
tender gave him a free pitcher on the house. :-* A guy must have big bowling ****'s,
to wear toe socks. We did give him a few more pairs.... for Christmas.
I love joke gifts and the stories they come from. 8-)
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 3:00am |
| Deleted User | Living in Minnesota...thick, warm socks are essential (else your toes freeze up like Stalagtites!).
Don't know much about Sockology, but matching is essential.
Hey...I found a site devoted to finding your missing socks that disappear for some darn reason:
http://www.funbureau.com/search1.htm
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 4:07am |
gailSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Caroline, the crazy sock phase hit the US way before '76. I skipped wearing those longer skirts because they reminded me of my highschool uniform way too much!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 5:45am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Caroline, Supreme Goddess (26 DEC 2005 11:11am)
Batchelors are a helpless breed, aren't they
Not in this court. Sorry to bust the strait stereotype there.
I'm a bit of a shoe horse. Call me metrosexual. I have tons of shoes and plenty of appropriate socks.
I do admit to be less fashionable in hot weather though. Nothing like bare feet, then. And I do wear sneakers for the casual fare, or at work, which require plain white sock.
Eh?
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 8:05am |
gailSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Sneakers at work is my 'style' most of the time too, since I walk during my lunch hours. My socks usually match, but if there is no chance of them being seen, I might grab different shades of the same color. I've never had a 'sock check' yet.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 11:18pm |
MissBSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Not A Speck Of Cereal (28 DEC 2005 5:44am)
Call me metrosexual
You're metrosexual :
My socks are white for work (matching only) and lots of warm fuzzy ones for winter. I also have a box in my laundry room labeled "Lonely Sock Club". This is where the odd socks end up. If a mate isn't found within a month, I toss 'em.
When it first got cold here, several pair of my boyfriend's socks disappeared. I found them a week later when I changed the sheets [smiley=laughing.gif]
My name is Bethany and I'm the daughter of Gamergal/Michelle.
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| 29 DEC 2005 at 3:46am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Michelle (28 DEC 2005 11:18pm)
When it first got cold here, several pair of my boyfriend's socks disappeared. I found them a week later when I changed the sheets [smiley=laughing.gif]
I'm afraid to ask... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
... so I won't. [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
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| 29 DEC 2005 at 7:23pm |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Rckasea (28 DEC 2005 12:31am)
A guy must have big bowling ****'s,
to wear toe socks. We did give him a few more pairs.... for Christmas.
Pairs...of socks I assume. [smiley=raise_eyebrow.gif]
Dyslexics wonder why there isn't a word that means the same thing as "cinnamon."
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| 30 DEC 2005 at 1:43am |
starventureSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | the stripey toe sock craze was in 1976
Actually, I would claim that in my corner of the world the last stripey toe sock craze was in 1997. But they were knee highs, not thigh high.
and I just gave my roommates some for the holidays
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| 30 DEC 2005 at 10:40pm |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By starventure (30 DEC 2005 1:43am)
the stripey toe sock craze was in 1976
Actually, I would claim that in my corner of the world the last stripey toe sock craze was in 1997. But they were knee highs, not thigh high.
and I just gave my roommates some for the holidays
Boy, that phrase just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? "Stripey toe sock craze." Stripey toe sock craze. Stripey toe sock craze. Stripey toe sock craze.
Dyslexics wonder why there isn't a word that means the same thing as "cinnamon."
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| 31 DEC 2005 at 12:13am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Stripey toe sock craze. Stripey toe tock craze. Stripey stoe stock craze. Stripey stock croe taze....bleah, can't do it.
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