OT: why do socks have seams?

Jan 02, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 49 Replies

Socks have seams so you'll know where your toes are.

I saw a program recently where socks are woven as blind tubes and shaped by a steam process.

Those are great. Socks used to need manual rotation, but I think it was Ron Popiel who invented the self-rotating ones.

Rich people hire servants to do search the web manually.

Why does there even need to be one? Start the sock at the toe and have the first row of each side intermingled in the same way as rows 1 and 2.

Then we don't have an answer to my original question, why aren't all socks seamless?

Why would I want to look like a chimpanzee?

What is a blind tube?

Nothing is made properly anymore.

Can I have a naked one?

Why make it as a cylinder? Presumably as a cylinder you're knitting/weaving the first row, then the second row attaches to that. Why not use the same attaching method to make both halves of the 1st row join up?

Do you find it annoying when you get a little stone inside your shoe? Because that's what it's like.

And I'm not delicate, I like walking barefoot, but I detest feeling something in the same position, it's as annoying as an itch.

No, I expect google to just work. Remember back int he days of webcrawler? Those were useless.

What about German students? It's common practice over there.

Not exactly a complicated thing.

They break when you drop them, I can't believe we haven't yet invented a good alternative to glass and crockery.

Most are not even waterproof, and will smash if you drop them on concrete.

Never driven a Renault?

Why work harder just to buy things with a higher price tag?

It almost always finds what you want. Before google you had to word things just right.

They don't know me.

Glass breaks. Undeniable fact.

Plastic scratches, metal can't go in a microwave.

Funny how most people still eat out of pot bowls.

At a stupid price. My £30 phone does everything a £200 Iphone does, apart from the waterproofing.

To cover the front aswell? Unusable.

I've seen every make broken down.

So not a seperate thing like a seam that can come undone, you shouldn't be able to see it.

In recent years, on medical advice, I've taken to applying lotion to my feet after my morning shower. (specifically O'Keefes foot cream - my choice). I had been suffering from occasional rubbing causing what I would describe as sore spots but never full blisters. None since I started the regime (which may be luck but I believe not).

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