Socks.... What an exciting one :D

[Count Steer]

The speed and accuracy of their knitting without a pattern astounds me.

I could actually knit when I was a kid! Nothing more fancy than 'knit one, purl one' but my mum could knit, at speed, while watching TV. Fast enough to go 'clickety-click' We were all clad in home produced jumpers, which, as mine did after I'd managed to put holes in them, would be unravelled, balled up and the wool reused. Now it would cost x times the £ to make a woollen jumper rather than just buy one.

[DefTrap]

My missus knits jumpers, turns out really expensive unless it's for a small child or you use really cheap wool. And, other than the grandkids, nobody actually wears them, total waste of time.

[Mr. Dazzle]

My Mum knits stuff for the grandkids (not a stereotype at all). She's ended up making adult duplicates for Mrs D because the latter likes various kid's jumpers so much.

I find the whole process quite interesting from a tech point of view (very strong parallels with carbon fibre manufacture) but once the item is finished I basically don't care.

[Mr Moofo]

I used to like Pringle ones for every day - but the got bought by the Sock Shop , which is now a front for some extreme Chinese tat merchant.
In fact all the socks in TK Maxx and M&S seem to come from the same shoddy mills. They last about 3 months at the most.

I bought M&S socks for years but, like their shoes, they've gone down the tubes. (It may surprise some but their shoes actually used to be pretty good!).

Indeed their shoes used to be good esp when they did the collaboration with Jeffery West .
They are crap now - but like their suits

[The Martian]

I'm wearing socks

[Couchy]

Thought I’d replied to this, I wear mainly these

DANISH ENDURANCE Light Outdoor Walking Socks, Hiking, Merino Wool

Have some of their smarter socks too but these I wear most days and out on mtb when dry, last well and very comfy as socks should be, thanks for making us realise how old and dull we’ve got

[Nordboy]

M&S stopped doing 100% black cotton socks years ago. Socks are the only thing I buy from Amazon, I can't find anywhere that sells them at reasonable prices. I tend to shred them because I wear slightly loose work boots and have rough feet.

There's boring.

Luckily I have quite a few packets of unopened M&S 100% cotton black socks in my wardrobe from the many years my mother bought them for me at crimbo. I could probably open a M&S sock shop tbh. I will never need to buy anymore black socks for the rest of my days

[weeksy]

I got 10 pairs of DHB socks from Wiggle, they were reduced from £16.99 to £2.... They're actually perfect and will last me a good few years i suspect.

[Count Steer]

Amazon have a Black Friday offer on Danish Endurance socks (still spendy though).

I've had, and liked, 1000 Mile socks too.

Do cycling socks need any particular design features cf hiking socks? I'd guess that lots of underfoot cushioning would be a no-no for cycling?

[weeksy]

Amazon have a Black Friday offer on Danish Endurance socks (still spendy though).

I've had, and liked, 1000 Mile socks too.

Do cycling socks need any particular design features cf hiking socks? I'd guess that lots of underfoot cushioning would be a no-no for cycling?

Not really, they're just socks really. Toe area is thicker than mid-area... heel is thicker too... but essentially they're socks.

https://www.wiggle.com/p/dhb-aeron-tall ... navyprugna

[Mr. Dazzle]

Do cycling socks need any particular design features cf hiking socks

According to the UCI they're not allowed to be aerodynamic devices, so watch out for that.

HTH.

[Taipan]

Pantherella in Leicester.

AFF15 for a 10% discount code and their Xmas socks are on sale. Comedy gold!

https://www.pantherella.com/sale