These days, we take it for granted that we wear socks on our feet next to the skin. It makes wearing shoes a lot more comfortable, absorbs and removes perspiration and can create quite an individualistic fashion statement. But the traditional wool, synthetic or cotton socks in the form of an enclosed tubular design with which we’re most familiar wasn’t always the universal paradigm. In earlier times, socks made of leather or matted animal hair were not unusual. Foot coverings in the form of Read more [...]