Elisabeth’s post earlier this week spun me on a sock tangent. She wondered whether people put their socks on before or after they put their pants on. (Go read her post to find out!) (I sometimes put my socks on first, sometimes once my pants are on. Depends on the pants.) But the more pressing question, in my mind, is HOW you put your socks on: Do you stand or do you sit?
I stand. I balance on one foot while I put one sock on, then balance on the other foot to put the other sock on. My dad does the same thing, as we discovered over Christmas. That’s the kind of riveting discussions we have around here.
My husband and daughter sit to put their socks on.
Based on this very small sample size, I’m extrapolating that there are two (primary) types of socks-putter-onners: sitters and standers.
The only time I sit is when I’m putting on tights. Which aren’t socks, but are similar enough that I’m mentioning them here.
Which camp are you in?
While we’re on the fascinating topic of socks, I have some other sock-related questions.
Do you prefer fun socks or plain socks? When I met my husband, he wore pretty much only plain white athletic socks that he bought in a multi-pack from Target. A few years ago, I started buying him fun socks from Sock Fancy and Bomba and Happy Feet, and now he has a drawer so cram-jammed with fun socks that he cannot fit another pair in there. (Nonetheless, he got FIVE PAIRS of socks for Christmas.)
I have experienced the opposite trajectory. I used to love fun knee-high socks in all sorts of patterns. But these days, I stick to a multi-pack of athletic ankle socks that I get from Costco. It’s just so much easier! I can rummage around in my sock drawer and grab a ball of socks and know it’s going to work.
Speaking of balled socks: are you a baller or shot caller, I mean a person who doesn’t ball their socks? I ball my socks up with wild abandon. Yes, I have read that doing so puts additional stress on your socks, and can stretch them out. But I have never once had an issue, so I have decided it’s worth the risk.
My husband REFUSES to ball his socks. He will carefully tuck the top of one sock into the folded-over top of its mate and that’s as much as he’s willing to do. When it comes to his (now small) stash of athletic socks, he stacks them on top of one another. He is much neater than I am.
My daughter prefers a secret third option, which is to throw all her socks, unpaired, into her drawer and then complain to me that she doesn’t have any clean socks when I ask why, for the love of tacos, did she come down to breakfast YET AGAIN without her socks on.
Do you wear socks to bed? My husband does not. I used to be firmly anti-sock while I slept. But since dealing with plantar fasciitis, and needing to wear shoes at pretty much all times, it’s just more convenient to sleep with socks on. Then I can shove my feet into my sneakers when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I also tend to moisturize my feet overnight, and I wear socks while I do that so the foot lotion doesn’t get all over my sheets. Ew. Lotiony sheets.
However, I vastly PREFER having bare feet while I sleep. It just… doesn’t work out that way, these days. Sometimes I end up ripping the socks off in the middle of the night and flinging them into the dark.
How many pairs of socks do you own? I tend to get sick of socks and then buy new socks without getting rid of the socks I already own. My husband, as I mentioned before, has an entire drawer of fun socks… and a separate drawer for athletic socks. (To be fair, the athletic socks take up a small portion of the second drawer.) That’s a lot of socks!
I did a very brief internet search for how many socks a person SHOULD own, and the answer seems to lie somewhere between 7 and 16. I started to count my socks and then gave up, but I think it’s at LEAST 20 pairs. That’s probably a very conservative estimate.
Now tell me all your sock-related quirks.
I don’t wear socks a lot, except in winter. Ii sometimes wear socks to bed and chuck them off, sometimes grab them and put them on at night, and sometimes have one on with a foot poking out from the covers. I don’t have a lot of socks- but I’ll steal my husband’s short athletic socks for around the house if my supply is low.
I used to be JUST like this. No socks unless I HAD to wear them. I miss those carefree barefoot days. It makes me laugh that you borrow your husband’s socks. My husband would not be a fan of my doing that!
I start with socks but take them off when I get warm! The foot cream you love arrived yesterday so maybe I will wear my socks for the night when I use that. This is my confession: I am terrible at picking at my feet when laying in bed. I have horrible calluses and cracked skin and I will pick at the calluses, etc. It drives my husband crazy! I am hoping the foot cream heals my feet a bit so there is less to pick at. I hope I have not totally disgusted you and that we can still be friends. 🙂
I have a mix of athletic socks and higher wool socks. We get a pair of socks from my parents every year. They get us something really nice like Bombas or Smartwool.
I sit while putting socks on and my husband does as well. You must have excellent balance to be able to stand while putting on a pair of socks.
I live with a foot picker so I get it, Lisa! And I have to admit there is something very satisfying about pulling off a big piece of callus. LOL.
Everyone has such great things to say about Smartwool but I haven’t tried it yet! Maybe I need to change that.
I don’t love socks, but when I wear them, I always slather my feet with O’Keefe’s first, so that means sitting down.
Makes sense, Sarah! I think applying foot lotion first would disrupt my balancing act.
Socks! Who knew they could be such a riveting topic of discussion! I stand while putting on my socks, do not wear socks to bed (ew) unless it is very, VERY cold (like when I am camping). I like rubbing my feet together when I am in bed and it is weird to have the friction of a sock there. Plus my feet get too hot. I have been known to fall asleep in socks during a nap though. I do wear socks around the house if it is cold, but I have hardwood, so I also wear slippers, so that means sometimes I don’t wear socks.
I buy socks from Costco and like that when one sock dies, it will still have a mate at some point since they are all the same. However, I do have a couple of special socks for running and/or hiking, but they are definitely plain. I am not a fun sock kind of person. I wish I was, but I am not. I also ball/fold all of my socks, even though most of them are the same, so “flung in a drawer” would probably work, but that is not my style.
We have hard floors as well, so I think even if I didn’t NEED to wear shoes, I would still want a barrier between my feet and the floor. And I’m with you — my feet definitely get too hot with socks on. That’s why I end up removing them in the middle of the night sometimes!
I wear the little footie/Ped socks most often. I don’t like bare feet in shoes, even in slip-on sneakers/vans. Because I have 2 cats that shed constantly and on everything, it depends on what I’m wearing whether I sit down or stand up to put on my socks. If I’m wearing my black leggings and a long, light coloured shirt, I’ll sit. If I’m wearing my black leggings and a dark shirt, I’ll stand. If I’ve already given up and know I have to use the lint roller anyway, I’ll sit. THESE ARE THE LAST CATS FOREVER, BY THE WAY.
Oh my goodness, I cannot even FATHOM going sockless in shoes! My daughter does it sometimes, but it makes me horrified. The stink! The grit!
I love that your cats influence your sock donning.
YESSS!!! Let’s do this!!!
– I sit to put my socks on unless it’s not possible (aka when the animals that I live with pile up their junk on the bench in our front hall).
– I have identical black socks for everyday life & identical athletic socks for the gym. I ain’t got time to be chasing down matching socks.
– I pair them up and fold them.
– I don’t sleep in socks normally. The exception is if I’m traveling and it’s cold.
– I own exactly enough of both kinds of socks that I only have to do laundry once a week plus extras in case I’m late by a day or so.
I love your sock enthusiasm, Birchie! There is really such value in having socks that don’t require a whole lot of thought when pairing.
Socks last since I generally wear leggings. I think(?) I mostly put them on standing up in my closet; I don’t have a chair in my bedroom and don’t normally sit on the bed. I don’t sleep in socks because they would make my feet sweat. I’m in your husband’s camp connecting my socks together!
You and I seem to be rarities when it comes to standing while putting socks on, Margaret! It just seems much more efficient to me than finding some place to sit.
I have Sock Opinions!
-I put my socks on in a secret third way: starting off standing but leaning heavily against the dresser or wall because I no longer have great balance, and occasionally toppling anyway which results in me plopping down on the bed or floor. So it usually ends up being a mix of both standing and sitting.
-I always wanted to be a fun sock person, but I’m really not, just because between the peripheral neuropathy and chilblains my feet are sensitive little babies who require specific things like no seams on my toes. I have a bunch of Bombas compression socks in colors, a bunch of black athletic crew socks, a bunch of footies, and a bunch of fuzzy fleecy socks.
-I have a sock drawer with dividers, so there is a Bombas section, a black athletic section, a footie section, and a fuzzy sock section. Within the sections, it’s a fight to the death. I have a thing about not wearing matching socks (which carries over into toenail polish- I always have two different colors on), so everything gets thrown into its section willy-nilly, not paired.
-If I remember to put lotion on at bedtime, I’ll wear socks to bed because Lotiony Sheets = blergh. But I usually end up kicking them off within 10 minutes or so.
Oh, I feel such tenderness toward your sensitive little baby feet! Thank goodness they belong to you, who takes such good care of them.
I am very envious of your divided drawer! That sounds very neat and tidy. LOL at the fight to the death within the sections. My daughter likes to wear mismatched socks, too! I love it.
Oh, how fun! I don’t wear socks around the house because I wear flipflops. So the only time I’d put on a pair of socks is when if I’m going out and wear shoes. We leave our shoes by the front door which is next to the stairs so I have been sitting on the last step of the stairs to put both socks and shoes on…otherwise, I put socks on standing up (like when I wear leggings and long socks for boots).
For long/crew athletic socks, I fold-over like your husband…but for the no-show or short socks, I put one sock inside the other without rolling first to reduce bulkiness and stretching.
I don’t wear socks to bed because it just feels weird. I avoid lotioning my feet before bed, but when I must, I put a towel on top of the top sheet/comforter and leave my feet out until they’ve dried — so this doesn’t happen much in the winter when it’s cold.
I like the idea of fun socks but I don’t buy them for myself. I do have different colored socks and they’re fun enough from the black or white I used to wear. LOL
Yes for socks on while standing! I never thought about just tucking a sock into its mate before! That’s such a great idea.
It does seem like fun socks are a Gifts Only option. My husband as I mentioned LOVES fun socks, but I think he has never bought himself a pair; they have all been gifts.
I put socks on after pants, but if I’m wearing tall socks, like I do most days in the winter, they come on before. It’s a complicated system.
I am OBSESSED with socks. I have dozens of pairs and none of them are plain. I also cannot deal with those hidden athletic socks because they irritate the scar on my bad leg, so I mostly wear crew or tall socks. I have two entire drawers of my dresser devoted to socks and they do not get balled up! That is how you destroy fabric (and I guess if you don’t hold on to socks for very long, that wouldn’t matter to you)!
I also have an entire drawer of my dresser devoted to hosiery – tights and nylons. But I do not own just plain hosiery – it’s all patterned or colored! My clothes are mostly boring pieces with very little pattern, but my hosiery game is wild.
I love that you are obsessed with socks, and I love that you have fancy hosiery. My daughter is ALWAYS asking me for fishnet stockings (she is ten and somehow I don’t think it would fit her school’s dress code????) so perhaps you will share some of your hosiery tips????
Do they make fishnet in tiny people’s sizes?! If so, my advice is layered colored fishnets for special holidays. The smaller the fishnet, the better. For Halloween, I frequently layer orange fishnets with black and for Christmas I did red fishnet over black (I think this would be appropriate for Valentine’s Day, too). It looks classier than you might think! (I also wear small fishnet for ALL face-to-face interviews. It’s a look if you want to rock it.)
BUT. I suspect you’re going to veto my encouragement of fishnets for your 10yo. In that case, I would recommend sweater tights, especially for this time of year. Check out these fun tights from Hue! (https://hue.com/girls-fairisle-sweater-tights/) Also, I would have loved it if fleece-lined leggings/tights had been around when I was a girl. So much freedom of movement! So much warmth! Those are mostly sold in solid patterns, but that’s okay because you can rock a fun dress with them.
Also, I wash all my hosiery in those mesh bags and hang them to dry. I am not sure how much effort you want to take in preserving things like that for a 10yo, but some of my sweater tights have lasted for YEARS with this washing method.
I have such a lot to say for such a supposedly boring topic!
* Since I am often putting socks on as an afterthought, it is usually after I put on pants, but if I am dressing in the morning and intend to put on socks, they go on before pants.
* I am much too clumsy to stand up and put on socks. I know my limits.
* I hate wearing socks in bed. I get around the lotion-in-bed issue by lotioning them up and putting on socks during the day, when I think of it (definitely not every day).
* I used to wear pretty neutral socks, until I learned how to knit them. Now I have an entire drawer full of colorful socks (pairs folded together, but not folded over). I wear them much less in Florida than I did in Massachusetts, but having them makes me happy. And I do wear them, with or without slippers–we have tile floors and it can get chilly.
Oh my goodness, being able to knit your own socks would open up a WHOLE WORLD!!!! But yes, being in Florida probably puts a damper on the socks issue.
I don’t wear socks from very early in spring until very late in fall. I only wear athletic socks when I’m walking or working out. I have a lot of fun socks with frilly tops for work with jeans or leggings. I said I fold the tops over, but when I think about it I’m pretty sure I put them in together and hope they’ll stay together and they NEVER DO so why do I keep doing that. I am frequently frantically searching for two socks that match or kind of match.
I stand to put on socks, which is really dumb since I have no balance and am clumsy and easily injured. It’s my way of living on the edge.
In winter I walk around with no socks but we keep the house very cold and have no carpets on the main floor so then my feet get freezing and I wear slouchy work socks with shorts which is super-sexy.
I usually go to bed and read with no covers on and fans on so I don’t overheat, and then often my feet get icy cold and achy so I put on socks for a bit so I can go to sleep without feeling my feet throbbing numbly. Then I kick them off and can’t find them in the morning.
Who knew so many of us wouldn’t be able to shut up about socks? This is frankly fascinating.
WHY are feet so finicky in the bed? I feel like mine are either too hot or too cold, there is no middle ground. Just… be okay, feet!
I used to be a No Socks person. I loved being a No Socks person. Stupid plantar fasciitis.
Wait – people stand to put on socks. Why? How!?
I don’t own too many socks and prefer plain colours or athletic ankle socks, but my husband LOVES socks – the brighter and funkier the better. He loves, loves, loves socks.
I hate wearing socks to bed; every once in a while my feet will be cold enough that I’ll keep socks on, but they never last the night. I always kick them off and then find them balled up in the bottom of the bed a week later.
Who knew the topic of socks could be so fascinating!
I stand to put on socks!!!! I feel like it’s laziness??? Because I don’t want to bother walking to a place that has seating?
Love that your husband is similar to mine in this way! Funky socks are so fun. I think it’s such a delight when you see a very conservatively dressed businessman and he has wild socks.
Standing to put on socks is a good balance exercise! I’ll stand if I feel like challenging my balance, or sit down if I’m feeling lazy.
Last Christmas (I mean Christmas of 2022) TWO different people gave me multiple pairs of Harry Potter socks, so that’s what I’ve been wearing ever since (they’re all different.) But for running, I wear regular running socks. I do ball up my socks, and have no problems because of it.
i always want to wear socks to bed because it feels so cozy, but I just get too hot.
This turned out to be a popular topic!
Harry Potter socks! How fun. 🙂 And yes, balling the socks seems to make no difference. I think it’s a scam perpetuated by Big Sock to… I don’t know what. But definitely a scam.
Oh, how we bloggers spur each other on regarding topics; don’t we? I love it.
I didn’t fill out the poll because my answers all vary depending on the situation, weather, etc.
I generally sit to put on my socks. But then, I have a chair and an ottoman in my dressing room (fancy way of saying the spare room that I have claimed for myself due to the lack of a true closet in our room).
I only wear socks in the winter. I will wear no-show liners other times of the year; but actual socks? Only in the winter when my feet are cold. I will do fun socks but currently most of my socks are black (so they can blend in to my slippers – I know. I’m ridiculous).
I do match my socks; but don’t usually ball them up – but I used to. Currently, I have more socks than I do space (makes a mental note to deal with that); but I try to place them neatly in a drawer. I don’t have the mental energy to be pairing socks after the fact.
I prefer NOT to sleep with socks – and when we lived in Texas I don’t think I ever did sleep with socks. But here, it gets cold so I sometimes do go to sleep in socks; but it’s rare they stay on. I generally find them next to the bed in the morning.
Too many socks; most of which I don’t even like. This may be something that I will deal with tomorrow.
I love that you have a dressing room! It does sound very fancy.
I would LOVE to have some no-show liners that actually a) don’t show and b) stay on my feet. Do you have any recommendations???
I DO have recommendations! I recently purchased these https://www.target.com/p/all-pro-women-s-3pk-ultralight-low-liner-athletic-socks-4-10/-/A-52658478?preselect=52526023#lnk=sametab – I wear them with my slip on Keds. They don’t show and stay on. I don’t think they’d work with a lower cut shoe though. So, I also bought these https://www.target.com/p/women-39-s-3pk-liner-socks-a-new-day-8482-cream-4-10/-/A-53560274#lnk=sametab I can’t completely vouch for them as, so far, I’ve only worn them once for just about an hour. As I recall, they didn’t show and stayed on.
I like both of these as they feel like actual socks and not like those nylon things (you know what I’m talking about, right?) that claimed to be no-show but always did and were usually ruined after one or two wearings.
I love smart wool socks. Love them. I have 1 drawer of athletic socks and 1 drawer of socks for winter. My biggest sock issue is my confusion over what my kids do with their socks. I rarely lose a sock, but the kids’ socks? Well, it’s a mystery to me that they can lose socks so regularly.
Where do they GO, Ernie?!?! So many missing socks!!!!
I hate socks.
I remember the pre-elementary school fights about socks (and shoes) and the picture from my mom’s friends’ wedding of me at 4 with curly platinum blonde hair, headband, gorgeous little dress… and the worlds rattiest tennis shoes with no socks to backs me up on my enduring sock hatred.
I remember from being a little kid the torture of seams, and sock heels not aligned in shoes… shudder.
And now I come to find out I actually have a skin allergy to many fabrics, textures (100% cotton in the wrong texture gives me a rash or they mixed something else in that shit and it isn’t 100% cotton), and especially to elastic.
I fought for YEARS barefoot in full contact karate. Never could use tape under my pads. I had a number of broken toes and pinky fingers because of it. Was preferable to tape or elastic or socks.
But I hate cold feet? And now I blister with bare feet in shoes as my karate toughened feet are long gone and now I am left with pansy middle aged lady feet.
Bamboo socks are my saviors and the only ones I can stand wearing… when I am forced to. And I will wear a hoodie and beanie and Birkenstock sandals with bare feet with no shame… but if the weather demands gloves I figure I have to put the sandals up. But know I do it begrudgingly.
This is so funny. You are funny! Carla is a trip!
Have you seen the Balance Tests on Instagram? Where the person stands to put on one sock, then their shoe, then the other side all while balancing and not falling down? I can ALMOST do it without falling.
Well! I’m just stepping back into the blogging world and I have a LOT to say. First, it depends on what kind of pants. If it’s jeans and I’m wearing longer socks, they go on first. Yoga pants and athletic or thigh-length socks, they go on second. I stand to put on athletic socks but sit to put on longer socks. I wear thigh high thick socks over leggings when I’m walking the dog or spending time outside. All my socks are black, with the exception of maybe three athletic pair that are grey. I roll my socks, like Marie Kondo! I used to wear socks to bed but now I’m too perimenopausey and get way too hot. So I put the lotion on my feet earlier in the evening, with socks on to absorb, so by the time I go to bed my feet are still moisturizing but I don’t get lotion on the sheets. I have a ton of socks, I guessed 16-30 but I think now I must be 30+. This is a fun topic, weirdly enough!
I am someone who has WAY TOO MANY SOCKS. If I expand from a small bureau drawer to a large bureau drawer, I WILL FILL IT. And then I reach for the same half-dozen pairs all the time. I like semi-fun socks: I don’t like the trouser socks with pizza slices on them or whatever (mostly because of the feel of them, and the way they look wrong with my shoes), but I like crew socks that are, say, pink with orange heel/toe, or navy with two different-color stripes on top. In summer I wear ankle socks, and I have some that have a rainbow stripe around the top.
I sit to put socks on, and I don’t like to think about standing to do it. I am too unbalanced. I already broke a toe putting on underwear, because I do put on underwear standing up.
Who knew I would have so many opinions about socks. Also, I love a post full of polls. 😊💕
I am currently wearing athletic shoes most days, so am currently wearing athletic socks most days. I put them on either standing (not immediately putting on shoes) or sitting (so I can tie my shoes after). But I also still have all of the thick, cozy socks that are nice for being shoeless in the house and dress socks for when I occasionally need to wear them and a good number of each because sometimes you need multiple of the same type for a number of days in a row…. My sock drawer is overflowing.
I have thought so much about socks since that post and feel so much better other people are also on this train of thought! I wear mismatching socks every day and it is one of those things about me that drive my Mr up the wall! He is very specific about his socks (even though they all match, each one as a singular partner and never shall the 2 be worn with others) and my sock chaos challenges him as the main laundry doer. (Well, chaos in pattern, but never so much to wear different heights or materials).
I may be a sock hoarder…do people really have fewer than 10 pairs of socks? I have thick winter socks, short summer socks, boot socks, dressy socks, thin socks, festive socks…and more. I wear them all the time except when I’m wearing flip flops in the summer, and had to stop wearing them at night in the warmer months because of hot flashes. I have a few pairs of favorites that are threadbare that I should throw out and replace, but I don’t know where they came from, and they are the best weight/pattern!
I like socks. I’m always happy when the weather turns in September and it’s not too hot to wear them.
I sit, ball, own a mix, and quite a lot of them. I went to my drawer to check and once I’d counted ten pair, I was less than a third through, so I stopped counting, and clicked 30+. But I sleep without them unless my feet are cold and even then I will probably take them off after 10 minutes or so.
I am wearing reindeer and poinsettia socks today. Not quite ready to stop wearing the Christmas socks.
p.s. I keep getting Facebook ads for a company that sells “fun, faith-focused socks.” I have NO idea how I got on that list. I’ve never once thought, I like socks, but I wish they had more religious symbols on them.
p.p.s. In regard to the above, I do have a lot of Christmas socks, but I never buy them online. They tend to be impulse purchases while Christmas shopping in stores.
I think almost all of my answers were “it depends.” I stand to put on ankle socks, and tend to put those on after pants. I sit to put on tall socks and tend to put those on before pants.
I have a mix of boring socks and fun socks, but I also knit my own socks. Ankle socks are folded into a packet. Not balled, because they need to be more flat, but not just the top folded over. Hand knit socks are paired and folded in half and then put in the sock bin upright as there are enough of them that I almost always have to sort of shove them into place, so they stay paired together nicely. Tall socks are paired, folded in half, and then tucked neatly into the cuff of one sock in a nice neat packet again.
Socks never go in to the washer alone, they must always have a mate. They NEVER go in the dryer. I don’t even start the dryer until I have hung up the rest of the load to make sure no socks tried to sneak into the dryer.
My husband used to buy a bulk pack of socks and then just chuck whatever socks he found into the washer and then the dryer when he did laundry. If a sock didn’t have a mate when he bothered to fold and put away laundry, he’d just chuck it back into the dirty laundry pile and wash it again. So some socks would be washed a ton without being worn, some socks were not worn more than once or twice before getting lost somewhere for a while, and some socks were worn and washed a ton. It meant his socks were impossible to pair up again because they all had such different lives. It still makes me twitch, thinking about how he treats his socks.
I didn’t realize that there was so much to talk about when it comes to socks. I definitely sit when I put on my socks and I usually put on pants before socks (most times).
I ball my socks, my husband folds his. Is that a universal male-female thing? I also used to love fun-patterned socks when I was younger, but now I have athletic ankle socks in black (and a few colorful athletic running socks that I wear for workouts).
Timely post for me, I cleaned out my sock drawer today. I am like you in that I tend to buy new ones, and not throw away the old ones. I realized the other day that I couldn’t close it. I am sure I threw away at least 20 pairs of socks. My drawer now closes, but I have plenty left. I cleaned out my underwear drawer the other day, and also my makeup drawer. It’s making me happy.
Sock! It seems like the most quotidian things often spur the most thoughts!
I sit down to put my socks on. But I also only wear socks when I’m leaving the house, so I sit on the stairs by the shoes to put on my shoes and socks.
I almost exclusively wear Bombas now. They are the comfiest socks I’ve ever worn, eye wateringly expensive, but I’ve also had holes worn in them and the company has replaced them for me.
I like having colourful socks. I also don’t always bother to match socks. The Husband and I have an ongoing sock dispute – he used to just bring the kids’ socks up and throw them in the sock bin, but then I insisted that socks in the sock bin have to match. But I just meant that the same types of socks have to match – they don’t have to be the same colour or pattern. But he took that as the socks have to be exact matches and stopped bringing socks up from the laundry because he said he couldn’t find exact matches. Which made me mad because then there were never any socks in the sock bin when we were trying to leave the house. So I’ve taken over the kids’ sock laundry now. Anyhow – the kids and I wear mismatched socks all the time.
This is a fun post and I think you’re brilliant to delve this deeply into the topic of socks. I have bold patterned brightly colored fleece ones to wear around the house, and dark or white ones to wear when I ventured out into the world. This may, or may not, make me normal or weird, who’s to say!