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Dec. 16th, 2011 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm wearing new socks these days. This isn't earthshaking news, of course, but it is important to me.
Last year, after losing considerable weight, I bought new stretch pants to wear under my dresses in the winter. The petites turned out to be really short on me, not capri short but still short. The bottoms of my pants just barely reached the tops of my socks. At about the same time, Hanes changed how they made their crew socks so that they're shorter and thinner. The result is that I've been walking around with skin showing between my pants and my socks.
For a while, I'd been thinking that knee socks were the solution, but I hadn't done anything about it. Then, during one of Delia's rock climbing sessions, Scott and I went to Mejier's, and I bought some. They're not ideal. They're thin enough that they might as well not be there when I go outside, and I have to be careful to pull my pants up all the way because the friction with the socks catches things and can make my pants ride low. Still, they look better-- no gap and these are dark socks with dark pants as opposed to the white socks I had before-- and I feel better about them.
I can get thicker knee socks if I'm willing to wear acrylic. I've always stuck with cotton for socks (I can't wear wool. Animal fibers make me itch horribly), and my mother was emphatic on the evils of artificial fabrics. Scott bought me a couple of pairs without noticing what they were made out of, so I tried them. My feet didn't fall off, and nothing else awful happened. I think I'll keep those in rotation and see how they are long term.
Last year, after losing considerable weight, I bought new stretch pants to wear under my dresses in the winter. The petites turned out to be really short on me, not capri short but still short. The bottoms of my pants just barely reached the tops of my socks. At about the same time, Hanes changed how they made their crew socks so that they're shorter and thinner. The result is that I've been walking around with skin showing between my pants and my socks.
For a while, I'd been thinking that knee socks were the solution, but I hadn't done anything about it. Then, during one of Delia's rock climbing sessions, Scott and I went to Mejier's, and I bought some. They're not ideal. They're thin enough that they might as well not be there when I go outside, and I have to be careful to pull my pants up all the way because the friction with the socks catches things and can make my pants ride low. Still, they look better-- no gap and these are dark socks with dark pants as opposed to the white socks I had before-- and I feel better about them.
I can get thicker knee socks if I'm willing to wear acrylic. I've always stuck with cotton for socks (I can't wear wool. Animal fibers make me itch horribly), and my mother was emphatic on the evils of artificial fabrics. Scott bought me a couple of pairs without noticing what they were made out of, so I tried them. My feet didn't fall off, and nothing else awful happened. I think I'll keep those in rotation and see how they are long term.
