Even though I post about things I like and want all the time... I mostly come across them by accident, or from someone else telling me about them. I rarely want or look for something specific, and when I do, it's generally an office supply, or screenprinting product.
This September when I was in Chicago though, I saw a girl with cool socks, and have been thinking about them ever since. If you know me, you know it's not really a secret that I really dig jacked up knee socks, and that I like drawing them and wearing them.. but this girl had particularly cool socks, and I can't seem to find them. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
They were sorta like those old tights you had to wear to sunday school... maybe cotton, maybe wool...but a little bit thicker, and sort of crocheted looking...with little eyelet holes? she was wearing them with brown saddle shoe kinda shoes, i think, and an ankle length skirt, and I thought it was the most terrific outfit I'd ever seen.
Can someone clue me in as to where I might find some of those socks so I can begin my ascent into Chicago Hipster coolness?
Here are the closest things I could find. Anthropologie has some tights that come close... but I'm not so much into tights as I have a habit of ripping them while putting them on. DutchKnitting blogged about a pair she made...which are awesomely awesome (and I'd LOVE a pair for christmas from any person in my family that knits socks on a regular basis...hint hint...) but thicker than what I was thinking. There's a photo (above) of a girl on vintage look book that comes close too...but I don't know where she got them, and she looks a little more fetishy than my purposes.
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Don't know if this will help, but this place has alot of socks -->
http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/pages/socks_all.php
Good luck in your search!
sock dreams is definitely the place to look. i have some very similar to what you are describing from there. good luck!
yep, i have these, sounds like it might be the one - they are awesome socks :)
http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/pages/socks_detail_ProductID_926.php
http://www.goodbaduglynyc.com/goodbaduglynyc/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=51
If you folded down the top of these they would really cute...
wow! thanks!
i'd never heard of sock dreams, but it sounds like the rest of the world has! also like the good bad & ugly ones. I will now come to my blog for all fashion rescueing!!
I will knit you some socks just as soon as I get out of grad school. Until then if you want to make your own my mother-in-law can teach you with her crazy DVD! See http://www.societysocks.com/
Is white the color of choice? I know someone who knits.
white... or slightly off-white creme, perhaps?
I just got some cream wool knee highs in that sort of pattern at H&M- two for $9! They had black as well. I luuurve knee highs, and bought pairs in every color, now if I ever left my house to wear them out....
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