Why did they invent socks?
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The most commonly known "Tube Socks" were invented by Thomas Kelly and Hugh Ryan, in 1875.\n\nThey are designed to:\nease chafing between the foot and footwear, \nkeep feet warm, and \nabsorb sweat from the feet.
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some new socks and underwear
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My brother made a "sneaker beeper" on time... it was more of a concept invention though\nbasically, it was a little bell you put in a shoe that was controlled by a remote... so if you lost your shoe, you could push the button the remote and go find it\nkind of like a telephone pager
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Where to get them should be simple enough, why you would buy them is the more important question?????\n\nHe stated they were comfy to wear, surely just as comfy (and not as sweaty) to not wear them at all.\n\nThey tend to make toe socks in nylon, which makes your feet sweat and smell.\n\nJust my opinion though
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From what I remember, one sock in every wash absorbs so much heat that the sock molecules actually lose their bonds, and the sock becomes, in fact, gaseous.  This phase phase change is similar to sublimation, in which a solid transforms directly to a gas.  Many people mistakenly use this term, sublimation, when referring to the phenomenon.  The true scientific term, though, is 'socklimation.'  \nThe now-gaseous sock particles begin circulating and mixing with the hot air in the dryer, and are expelled with the humid air through the dryer vent.  The sock particles then rise to a little-known boundary layer of the earth's atmosphere (the sockmosphere).  The sockmosphere is a protective layer of the earth's atmosphere which protects us from the harmful "JS", or "Jockey-Speedo" rays of the sun.  Unfortunately, the sockmosphere has been thinning in recent years, accounting for the resurgence of people (primarily overweight men) being affected by the harmful JS rays.\n\nHope this helps!\nMM
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It began in 1892, invented by a canadian named James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.  He created it at a YMCA because he was a PE teacher, and the exercise directors wanted him to create an indoor wintertime sport so the men would keep in shape, since there were no winter time activities to balance out football and baseball in the spring and summer.  They used peach baskets taped to balconies
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God made the animals. That's your answer. Now ponder something really tough - like where that one sock goes that I keep losing when I do laundry.
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No socks.  Just a pair of sneakers, white on white.  And nothing else.
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Origin of foot-shoe fetish, according to scientists, should be followed to mothers womb, where sometimes happen that boys foot gently touch his genitalia and it could be almost first sensation they memorize. It is also, pleasant sensation, in which they remember foot = nice.\n\nSo foot-shoe fetish is quite common, sometimes strongly expressed, when only important thing is foot-shoe, and sometimes so mildly expressed that even man himself isn't aware about it. And between those two there is all specter of love for foot-shoe.
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Noone invented it. It is a natural phenomenon which humans have harnessed, channeled and learned to store.
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Sock fairies are funny buggers. I've lost many a sock, and I have socks neither I nor my boyfriend can account for. Could they be yours?!
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Read this in "Blondie" this morning.\n\n"I was in such a hurry that I put my shoes on first, then my socks. I had to stop to put them on correctly."
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Initially it was for practical reasons.  Heels were added to shoes around the 1500s to keep horsemen's feet from slipping from the stirrups.\n\nEventually, it became fashionable to wear heels.
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Just to add to the first answer above, medieval trousers were actually two separate legs, hence a pair and probably the source of the plural.  NOT your legs.\n\nYou can dig around a little bit on the web and find patterns from recreation societies for the medieval trousers if you're curious to see what they looked like.\n\nThey probably evolved from the "barbarian" practice (according to, of course, the "we do everything better" Romans) of wrapping cloth around the legs.  By the middle ages, however, they were shaped and laced pieces of cloth with a specific purpose.\n\nBy the by, when I lived in England as a child, I wore pants but my brother wore trousers.  "Pants" was the polite term for knickers and trousers were what Americans call pants.    \n\nIt's funny the lingual shifts that happen. I just wonder what effect the Internet and corporate television has had on dialect and language patterns?  Eventually, will the English that I learned as a child sound as archaic as writings from the 1800s sound to most people today?
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As a referee, in order to better determine which team kicked the ball out, the opposing teams must have solid contasting socks.  Bumblebee socks makes that decision more difficult for the referee.
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You're probably not wearing socks.
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I hate wearing socks,but I will wear them with running shoes.They make me really hot.My 5 year old daughter takes her shoes off when we go to someones house and she takes her socks off to ,without a thought.It's kinda funny now,but I have to get her out of that habit .