Niqkita's Sock Journal

Are you ready with all your fabulous holiday party outfits? Well, even if you are, you should add these Lurex Shimmery Thigh Highs to your holiday party wardrobe!

They sparkle, they glimmer, they shimmer and twinkle.

These are your typical Leg Avenue style thigh high: a tube style foot {so every foot size will be happy}, wide leg band, thigh high length, and *one size*. Shown above in silver/silver and below in purple/black with fencenets over them.

They’re only $9 and there’s 5 different colours to chose from {I don’t have the gold}. Right out of the package they itched me a little, so sensitive legs may want to wash these first before wearing. And after a wash the itch was all gone. Below is the blue/black:

There’s also a Knee High version in white/silver or black/silver for $5 each. Your legs will look especially shimmery with knee highs layered on top of the Lurex Shimmery Thigh Highs and then scrunched down for maximum eye dazzling effect!

Party on!

Here we have Sourpuss’ Skulls & Bones Over the Knees worn with Foot Traffic’s Opaque tights. The tights are only 8 buckaroos and that’s a good deal for a great tight. After I left my job in retail I swore I would never wear pantyhose or tights again because they itched my delicate Lady flesh so badly. Zoinks! But these had no itch at all! They were soft and silky and the crotch stayed exactly where a crotch should be! OK, yes, I am 5′2″, but I STILL have problems with dropping crotch areas on tights. These Foot Traffic tights gave me NO problems there. I now want these tights in all their 5 fabulous colours: Natural, Black, Olive, Brown and these are the vibrant Fuchsia! They come in One size and Plus size. I have washed these with an all black load of laundry {which is all I own} and the fuscia is as bright as ever. These tights really impressed me and I bet you’ll like them too.

The Sourpuss Skulls & Bones Over the Knees is a nice knit stripe sock for $13. They’re comfortable and fun. The heel slides up a bit on my 6.5 foot, but it wasn’t physically noticeable, just visually. That’s a well made sock when it doesn’t fit perfectly, but you don’t notice it physically. Meaning there was no bunching behind my ankle or heel. I do think larger feet than mine will love these. A very fun, well made sock for stripe lovers. It stays up OTK really well and the skull doesn’t get all stretched out of shape when I pulled them up. I’m a big fan of sweet yet naughty combos and this is a fun one with girlish pink stripes and the skull and crossbones of doom! Yar!

If you placed an order with us today this is the screen you’d see, welcoming you to Indigo Shadows Inc. - Sock Dreams. Yes, we incorporated, but don’t worry, we are still the exact same Sock Dreamers we were before, just a little more official.
We were not bought out by some mysterious corporation and will not be making major or unpleasant changes to the way we do business. The fact is that thanks to the many sockaholics who are addicted to our plethora of sockie goodness my little company grew too big to not be its own entity. In the long run this has benefits for me the individual as well as for Sock Dreams the ever growing company. In the short run it has caused me more stress & headaches than I care to write about. The good news is that it has actually gone more smoothly than I expected.
Today has been a really crazy day, lots of orders have been flowing in all day and tons of shelving arrived without the equipment required to unload it from the truck. On top of that Daffodil had a family emergency which took her away from us and her customer service duties. But all will be well and most of us will be back in the morning to keep the peace in the sock world.

With so much going on around here lately I’ve barely had time to think straight, let alone write many thoughts here. As I write this there are four other people here in the room with me working away. Bsti & Heidi are busily packaging the days orders. Daffodil is making sure all customer questions are answered and that all exchanges & returns are taken care of while Alicia takes care of all things related to our Dream Stockings and Lola naps contentedly. Olivia is hard at work getting our new shopping cart ready for the testing phase with plans to have it in use in the early part of October. It will have, among other cool things, a Paypal option so you can pay us directly via Paypal and gift cards(!!!). I won’t say more about that til I see it in action, but I just know it is going to help things run even more smoothly here allowing us to help you all more effectively. I’m sure I had something else to say, but now it escapes me, more, LOTS MORE to come…

Why Sock Dreams loves Simone’s Stockingwunderland, supplier of Cronert:
It was love at first sight as I spotted the bright stockings across the room…
As I got closer I noticed that they were not only beautiful but very well made.
A closer inspection of the items revealed that they came in sizes to match our various customers needs in colors our customers have a near impossible time resisting.
Add to all that the wonderful and enthusiastic Simone and her infinite knowledge about her product and what sets it apart from the rest and you get a business owners dream come true. When small issues or delays have come up Simone is always quick to help us resolve them.

Simone called me earlier this week asking if I minded writing a letter of recommendation for her company and I was happy to oblige. If there is one thing I dislike about Simone and her stockings it is that I am unable to resist them and have invested a small fortune in styles I hope everyone as much trouble resisting. Right now we have these wide striped OTKs and some leg warmers & sleeves and there are lots more coming before the holidays set in. I’ve been wearing my rose stripes here all weekend and I just needed to pull them back up over my knees at the park a few times this evening, I do indeed love them and can hardly wait to show off the new styles next month!!!

You made me love you…
I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do it…

Dear cuffables,
It wasn’t supposed to be like this, You were supposed to be more forgiving (to my large thighs), You were supposed to go the distance (to reach the length of my foot), You were supposed to be kinda loose and easy, gently going all the way (up to my …). But no… You came up short in my heel (you heel), You hold on too tight (where you should give me room), And instead of being my perfect one for me, you’ve gone and made yourself all dreamy to all those other smaller sized legs (read as smaller than mine).

You cad!
you tease!
you, you,
you, still lovely anyway sock you.

Way back when we were testing ideas for the Super M’s, we had a particular tester pair that had this incredible stretchy knit top portion. The cuffables were born from the idea of that knit, but unfortunately the manufacturer was not able to re-create the amazing super-forgiving stretch of that original. When I got my pair of the cuffables I was expecting the original give (thinking I’d really have the PERFECT sock for the large legged sock lover.. ME), and for a while my disappointment prevented me from loving what was actually good about this new version.

I was so sad that they weren’t uber super stretchy (even though they still make it pretty high on my thighs 26″). The problem with this (for me) is that the width of my legs pull the sock snugger allowing my skin to show through the pulled knit pattern, and they didn’t just gather and scrunch loosely (puckering a bit). I must admit that I’m a bit jealous of the average and petite sock lovers that will get to wear this sock loosely the way I had hoped to be able to. I was also hoping for feet made of the same knit as the sock (even if there were no formed heels like a tube sock). I wear a lot of open top shoes (like maryjanes) and am not fond of seeing that band somewhere around the ankle where the thick leg knit changes into the thin foot knit.

But…. All that being said, I still fell for them anyway :O)

They really stay up well when cuffed, the colors are rich, they are quite snuggly, and they totally go over my knees. I have a hard time comparing them to the M40’s. For me, the flatter knit of the M40’s (I have not yet tried the M43s) would be ideal for certain outfits and occasions that these would not and vise versa. The cuffables are warm and cozy, long and thick, and work really well for me when I scrunch them down a bit at the ankles to wear them pulled up in length to just over my knee (the scrunched part at the ankles hides the knit difference, and wearing them lower on my leg minimizes the ’skin show through’ part).

I know that our Sock Goddess is constantly working on making sure that everyone gets socks that will fit and fulfill all our sock dreams. I now have drawers of socks that fit me better than any I’d seen in years before I found SD and I am often surprised at how much I end up liking certain pairs that I poopooed at first… These are no exception as I fall for these more each time I put them on.

Thanks Niq for never giving up on finding the fits for all of us. :O)

While testing out the newest colors of the Long Cuffable Socks I really fell in love with them, especially this dark red pair, and the walnut pair, and, okay, I was just loving all the new colors. They are great in place of tights as they go way up most legs, long or large, and stay up really well. Plus, they are warm, nicely ribbed and not too thick or thin, snug down to the feet while not being tight. We’ve been hearing from alot of people, including many of you, our best sock experts, about just how well these fit. As a result Alicia is bringing in even more colors than we originally planned and we’ve been toying with the idea of getting rid of the M43s, who needs ‘ em with thigh high socks as awesome as these and the Super Dreamies?

Super Dreamy Stockings

Super soft, mine have gotten even softer with each wash

Gorgeous colors, I found the browns to be the hardest to resist

The stretch is excellent, each & every one of at Sock Dreams were able to pull them up past our knees, comfortably and with a minimum of thigh squeeze. And they actually stayed up pretty well on me, one leg would slip a few inches from time to time, I pulled them back up and kept on going. I’ve been washing them in cold water and drying on low because I want them to last as long as possible. They lost a few inches in length after the first washing, but the width didn’t change at all.
I absolutely LOVE these!!!

And, since we can no longer get Super Marled socks made we are just doing these as thigh highs. If there is enough yarn we will add OTKs later.

You know it’s autumn in the midwest when you suddenly go from 100+ degrees during the day to having to wear a jacket in the morning because it’s below 60 when you leave for work in the morning. Autumn also equals horrible arthritis weather, so long socks are a very, very, very happy thing.
It was 55 degrees when I checked the weather this morning, and my first thought was “I should wear M Stripes today”. So I did — my pair of grey on grey MStripes, even. And then I pondered what would happen once I got to work and began to freeze, and I added my pair of Space-Dyed Socklings in Moonrock over the top. I’m happy to report that my feet stayed warm all day, and my knees did not ache as they normally do with the cold.
I’m six feet tall, even, and I have legs the size of tree trunks, so I have to cuff my M Stripes down to just over my kneecaps in order for them to stay up and not cut off all circulation in my legs. Even though they don’t exactly fit, I still love them to death because they generally stay up around my knees all day, even with slippage involved. My space-dyed socklings barely come up to mid-calf, but what do I care? They’re happy in ways that cannot be described in mere words.
Of course, my pretty ensemble of grey socks clashed horribly with my purple shirt. And this is the way I go about life — wear normal clothes and wild socks that never match my outfit. :)
~becky