February' 25
The Story
Even though men tend to have less experience than ladies in terms of combing hair, let us try to envision the most dishevelled coiffure possibly imaginable. Add some dry leaves, twigs, seeds and other debris. Needless to say, all that would take a while to comb out.
Let us do some quantification now. There are roughly a hundred thousand hairs on a human head. In your sock, there are roughly one to two million cotton filaments, all of which were born as part of a cotton blossom, which, after being harvested and dried, forms exactly the kind of disarray we had just imagined on a human head.
Weaving a strong yet soft cotton yarn requires the filaments to be precisely combed and parallel to each other, a process called carding. Done by hand, carding is a lengthy endeavour, significantly increasing production costs. Luckily, our branch of business enjoys a certain primacy in the industrial revolution.
The mechanisation of cotton combing spread in the 18th century. Fittingly, it was spearheaded by a barber/wigmaker by the name of Richard Arkwright.
You might be asking, what is cotton combing if what seems like combing cotton is called carding? Well, our line of business is rife with obscure terminology. Combed cotton is combed on already pre-combed cotton with the goal of removing filaments that are too short, rendering the resulting fibre stronger and more durable.
Material
Each sock is made up of 85% cotton yarn. In order to improve the sock’s resistance to wear-and-tear, we added 5% polyamide.
The skeleton of the sock is composed of Lycra and polypropylene, each of which comprise 5% of the garment. The latter takes care of tensile strength, while the former provides elasticity and antibacterial protection.
Wishing you correctly measured steps,
Your Supreme Sock Council
Edition: Men's socks
All socks from Sockfellows are designed and manufactured in the Czech Republic.
