Originally published at: Socks are cool again - Boing Boing
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One could do worse than to get a monthly pair of socks from the Awesome Socks Club…
All profits go to Partners in Health!
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Socks are cool? No, socks are warm. That’s the point.
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Generation X understood that dress socks are uncool
Oh, put a sock in it, will you?
(Socks are just socks - an indispensable item of clothing for some, less so for others, regardless of which marketing stratum brush popular media decides to tar them with.)
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When the “Millennials are killing X” stories turn out not to be true, I guess you write “Gen Z are resurrecting X” stories?
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I’ll bet my socks last twice as long as yours! 
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Now some young people are declaring a preference for crew socks
Great, they can join me, and elder millennial with crew socks and colorful ones at that. Also i would prefer for these broad generalizations to stop being made but i understand why they are used, it’s just frustrating for me who doesn’t fit neatly into these “millennials are like X” and similar nonsense.
In my case i’ve had a white hot hatred of no-show socks and ankle socks. I prefer crew socks, and when i was a wee lil kid who played soccer a lot i would wear my huge chunky soccer socks casually bunched down. I’m sure i looked like i was wearing leg warmers, but i liked them. So what?
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I had to cancel mine, after receiving socks from them from Day 1 of them launching and having an active subscription for like 2 years 
but i do love my awesome socks.
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Beschizza: Socks are cool again
Me, wearing one yellow and one blue football sock with fencing pants that look like Cyberpunk 2077 lederhosen:
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It’s futurist camouflage 
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They are good quality, in addition to looking neat… I have yet to have a pair wear out in the heels or toes, where as socks I get from like Target or whatever end up last only a few wears prior to getting holes.
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I’m wearing Halloween crew socks right now.
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ESCANDALO
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i noticed this out in the wild recently. the kids, they love the crew socks. I AM COOL AGAIN!!
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I got my wife a sock Advent calendar last year. She loved it.
Socks, at least for my wife, have always been cool.
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I always wear socks with my sandals.
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This is a NYT trend piece, so it’s obviously nonsense. Millennials have been wearing black crew socks with tennis shoes and shorts forever. I know because I’ve been upset about it for 20+ years.
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My spouse does this monthly sock club! Some interesting socks so far and he says they are nice to wear
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