How about those cold and wet winter days. Don’t you just love coming home in your wet socks that have gone from cold to warm, dry to sloshing, through out the day. Oh how you have just wanted to take them off for hours now. Well here is your chance. Your home now and you have purchased one of those wood stove inserts for your living room. Don’t bother dragging your wet socks up to the bedroom hamper just hang them by the heater. Have you ever wondered how long there have been socks anyway? How many socks have been hung next to a heater for thousands of years?
The history of socks goes like this. Socks were actually one of the first pieces of clothing that were ever worn. The are up there with underwear. I am sure they were designed out of a real need to keep the feet protected. They have evolved over centuries of time the first pair made of animal skins that were tied up around the ankles. And you thought those were cave man shoes. They were cave man socks. The Greeks made some of the first warm sock out of matted animal hair. They also came up with a variety with socks made of leather and fabrics.
Then religion came in and made their purity socks called puttees which the holy people of Europe would wear. At some point socks were the big symbol of wealth and nobility. Back before the Stock Market and investments. It was the knitting machine that was invented in 1589 that gave socks a new life. They were knitted out of silk, cotton and wool. They were made six times faster. Then came nylon in 1939. This material started the practice of blending multiple yarns. This is still what we do today. Today they are a fun expression of style and comfort. There are socks made for every activity of life. And they are plenty warm unless you get them wet.
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