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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] cotton work socks
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:42:30 -0500

Hi all --

I seem to remember that some time ago we had a discussion on this thread of the difficulties of finding good quality work socks, and that several people were looking specifically for cotton work socks. If I'm wrong, and nobody here is interested, apologies for inflicting this on your inboxes, but:

http://women.duluthtrading.com/store/product/wm-rag-crew-sock-21528.aspx

the above fit me quite nicely. I take a unisex sock size 10 (not shoe size -- the closest thing to a shoe size that fits me is a men's 7 1/2 or 8 EE). I've put several pairs through multiple washes now and they have neither shrunk nor stretched (a common problem with ragg socks, in my experience, if they're not made right.)

Caveats: 1) They do have 28% wool in them; so if you can't tolerate any wool at all, they won't do. 2) I haven't yet worn them in hot weather, so I can't guarantee they don't give me the heat rash that mostly-wool socks give me in the heat. (I may try to remember to update on this in or after this summer.) 3) They're expensive for a primarily cotton sock; but socks that actually fit are massively easier on the feet; and this is a good heavyweight boot sock, not flimsy or thin. 4) Duluth Trading, at least the last I looked, only carries them in that one size, which is going to be too small for many men and too large for some small-footed women. They are made by Fox River, and Fox River does carry them in four different sizes, though for a lot more money:


http://www.foxsox.com/Catalog/search.aspx?type=sockfinder&height=&weight=&padding=&content=&temperature=&activity=&feature=&size=&audience=&stylenumber=2689


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
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