Socks

Something that I have never understood is that I have no issue with the toe seams in socks, but I do with hosiery items like tights, stockings, and hold-ups. Thankfully, I seldom have cause to wear such items.

With socks, my main issue tends to be with the fit, especially around the heel. I'm a size 6 and sometimes the fit feels just right and the sock heels align perfectly, but at other times the fit feels too small and tight, or too big and loose.

I make my own using yarn I like the feel of, in colours I like, that don't have any seams and are not too tight. I also wash them one inside the other so that I never lose one.

I buy work socks, on a regular basis. My local village has a hardware shop, selling them, as well as an agricultural supply shop at a nearby village. Then, my neighbour told me that a shop in the rival village in my parish also sells work socks.

Saves me a jaunt to the town.

I dislike socks. 
It’s not so much the seams, they just make me feel restricted in some way. In fact when I’m on holiday I try not to wear flip flops or sliders as much as possible either… I’m not really that keen with anything on my feet.

At home I am barefoot most of the time unless we have a house full of people and then I would rather keep them protected from other peoples germs

I always walk bare foot at home.  So socks are not an issue, just need very clean carpets.

Completely understand about teh seams thing. I can't bear to have them the 'right' (ie. insane) way round, with the seam pointing in, so habitually reverse them on purchase, and even double-check after every wash. Sometimes I'll be out walking and it will suddenly hit me that 99.5% of sock-wearers around me are wearing theirs the 'proper' way without having even given it a second thought, and I think two things simultaneously: 'there but for the grace of autism go I...' and 'how strange that it isn't driving them mad... or maybe it is but that's just how you're 'supposed' to have them.'

Needless to say, buying me novelty socks is a pointless exercise, all one would ever see is the 'behind the scenes' side...