24-Pack: Steve Madden or Laundry by Shelli Segal Low Cut Socks
- Do you spend the summer in sandals, denying that close-toed footwear exists? Well, it’s getting cooler, so you should re-up your stash of socks
- Do you spend the summer in jeans and shoes and socks, denying that it’s warm at all? Well, those socks are probably getting worn down, so you should get some fresh ones
- Everyone could use some socks, is what we’re saying
- Can they make a margarita: No, but they work nicely as socks!
You Always Need Socks
A month or two ago, I finally confronted a strange mathematical anomaly I’d lived with for many years. You see, most days, I wore one of the same six T-shirts, five pairs of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. And yet, somehow my closet (and my drawers [and the basket in the laundry room]) did overfloweth with bounty.
I decided: no more! I would cull my wardrobe of all but the essentials.
I started with the pants and shorts, which were easy. Pants rarely possess sentimental value. You either like them because they fit you nicely or you don’t like them because they fit you poorly. Yes, I had to face certain unkind truths about my waistline’s trajectory since my mid-20s, but in the end, I faced few issues.
Next came the shirts. Here nostalgia ran rampant, and I’ll admit I saved quite a few items that I doubt I’ll ever wear but which remind me of various important times in my life. Still, overall, I made swift progress.
By this point, I began to wonder: why did I put this off for so long? Why did I dread this process? Why don’t I do this a few times a year to make sure my style remains fresh?
Then, I reached the sock-sorting portion of the exercise, and I cursed ever attempting this purge at all.
I’m not organized. When I finish laundry, I fold the clothing except for the underwear and the socks, which I shove sloppily into their respective drawers. As such, when I went about organizing my socks, I found something like Luis Arraez’s 2023 season: just a whole bunch of singles.
A few I matched with their mate. But for many, I couldn’t find the other half of the pair. Or I found it but it had a hole in it, or its side was worn down, or all of elasticity had been stretched out of it. It was chaos, and in the end, despite having roughly three drawers full of them, I came out with only a few pairs that I’ll actually wear on the regular (and, also, somehow one hundred sets of dress socks despite the fact that I work from home in my pajamas and go to roughly one wedding every two and a half years).
Luckily, there is a solution to the problem I’m experiencing. It’s a process called “buying more socks,” and it’s something I can do today, right here on Meh.
And so can you!
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