Niqkita's Sock Journal

I wasn’t sure what to make of these the first time I saw them but I knew we needed them so I bravely ordered a few dozen and I am now certain that is not enough. But if we run out before you get your pair don’t worry, we’re getting more!
These were in our first batch of new Ozone socks and I was a little bit mad because the whole reason I ordered from Ozone was to get our fav’s from winters past, Jambieres and surprise ribs. But just when I thought they really were not coming back this year I spied some in a box that arrived today. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to get them unloaded & counted in today, but we’ll get them this weekend. And just in case you missed it above be sure to go to the new items page and see what just came back: BLACK FINGERLESS GLOVES!!! and this time they are longer and softer, I’ll have to take new pictures soon, but for now, the old ones are plenty good.

If the sky had been purple instead of midnight blue. I think the sparkly fishnet thigh highs are just amazing, they make your legs look like something from a fairly tale.
Here I am wearing them with purple tights, but I think thigh highs would be even sexier, and these come in purple too.
Not that they have to be purple, dark blue or black would be amazing, and why not try the white variety with some lighter colours, or white?
Having tights or other stockings under them is a good idea, not only for the visual effect, but lurex yarn can be a little itchy. Having tights under make them stay up better too. Not that that seem to be much problem with these, they stayed up well. On plump thighs, like mine, there will be a dent, but nothing uncomfortable, and not very deep either.

Here they are, the Vertically Inclined Stockings.
When we launched the new shopping cart just over a week ago I asked you all to give it a test run, offering surprise socks in return with a special request that you tell us your favorite sock from Sock Dreams and your fav color. I used those as guidelines and in a few cases chose something entirely different to send some of you. For those who didn’t get a pair don’t worry, you’ll get a chance soon, but first, I want the rest of you who did get a pair to send us your photos of them, post links to them here in the comments if you like (bonus points for proper use of HTML tags~;) We’ll choose the photos we like best to use on their page, that’s right, this is your opportunity to get your sock shots used here at Sock Dreams, for all the world to see. I’ll also gladly post your photos and reviews here in the journal once we have them on the site to sell. Images should be 72-100 dpi jpgs at 400×600-ish and I’d like to get this done by next week because each of you got one color and there are five to be had! and yes, we can do them in light shades too, but first, the dark shades of winter.

we just got this letter and since there is no email address I’ll just reply here
…because I know she isn’t the only one waiting:

Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:41 PM
To: feedback
Subject: sock-dreams.com - Sock Journal
Name: Lisa
Email: seraquin

I would love the black pairs and other colors!

Yes, we have them on order and that order should have shown up last week, I’ve already called to find out how much longer we’ll have to wait but Nancy didn’t know and hasn’t gotten back to me about it yet. But the only colors we can get the Pippy Longstocklings in are black and white, though I bug them to get us more colors every few months so keep your toes crossed but don’t hold your breath!

Okay, some of you have noticed that the cart went a it wonky last night or this morning, it should be working now, Dan checked and rechecked and I tested from our end and everything does indeed seem to be better so I’ll spare you the details of what went wrong. Also, about the gift cards, hopefully by the end of today, or tomorrow we’ll have these ready. I got a mean head cold this week and it made my ability to handle the technical details of things a bit trickier, but I’m clearing up now and we should have everything taken care of soon, including getting the orders checked in and stock added back to the site, we just got huge orders from both Leg Avenue & Hot Sox. The long leg warmers from Foot Traffic are on their way, Foot Traffic actually ran out and we couldn’t get more, but we have lots, LOTS more coming!

Nope, no new pictures yet, not that we haven’t taken any, I’m just focusing on the many details of our new situation before allowing myself time to edit images. You take so many things for granted until your situation changes, little details like having the time & date on the invoices, not the time you printed the order or the time the customer first started filling their carts, but the actual time and date they completed their order. Everything from the way we enter our orders to track our daily sales in Excel to the way shipping labels are printed and completed orders are filed has changed in some way and who likes change? especially in November… Thankfully so many things have been simplified for us that the time and efforts to figure out and learn new routines so close to the holiday season is not so bad. Everyday we get a bunch more socks inventoried (but only after getting the days orders filled and passed to shipping) so there is still a chance of selling something we don’t have. By next week there should be little to no chance of that which, in itself, will be a huge relief to us. You know how sad you are when you order something only to find out they/we don’t have the item you wanted most? some days we have to call and/or email several people with this bad news, it’s depressing for us because we hate running out and disappointing you, plus it takes alot of time that could be better spent on other sock related tasks (like taking pictures ~;) Do you know why I always use a ~ in my smileys? because I have naturally wavy hair and every since I was little I usually have a loose strand somewhere between my nose and my ear. That silly smiley I do on your invoices with three wild hairs? my first water painting when I was two-ish was eyes, smile and what my mom would later love to relate regarding my hair “coo-ey hai hai” yes, apparently that is what I called it as a wee one and it rhymes with gooey hey hey.
Okay, back to business for a minute. Those invoices, the first batch came out without their description because even though I saw invoices in my testing I kinda overlooked how they only had a part number, color, price & quantity. As soon as I spotted them (after printing nearly a hundred orders) I reported this to developer Dan and within minutes he fixed it and we could see exactly what was on each and every order. Then we started noticing how the colors and descriptions were redundant because the new system took the old system and migrated it in parts that work brilliantly but need rewriting on our end. So we will work on updating those so they make more sense while we get everything else in place. Many orders will not be arriving as quickly as usual between our first couple of days of newness and Saturday being a postal holiday. I’ve really been enjoying picking out your special socks! I have to tell you though, most of you are getting the same thing (in different colors that may or may not have been affected by your fav color) some are getting other styles because we might’ve had something I really thought you’d love based on your all time fav. If we somehow manage to miss your special socks because we’re not used to the new special instructions section let us know when your order arrives, and no cheating, I kept a list of who got what ~;)
Details, details, so many of them right now, but I sure do enjoy seeing such significant progress, I now love my job more than ever and am really excited about the future. Please continue to comment on any issues you are having with the new shopping cart and feel free to praise us shamelessly and generously…
a little sunshine goes along way in a rainy windstorm.

The site upgrade is live… go see!
Please give the new shopping cart a test run, even if you don’t actually buy anything today, fill your cart up, come back later, it’ll still be there, in fact, it will now last 24 hours and as long as you check in on it or add something it will keep renewing that 24 hour hold! If we run out of something it will take that item out of your cart, but everything else will still be in there. We weren’t allowed to add in inventories before launching so it will take us a few days to get those all added in and accurate, details, details! Now, if you can afford to buy some socks this week we’d sure appreciate your feedback on how this new system worked for you. Now, get to shopping!

Nope, we didn’t launch it yet, Thursday (afternoon) is THE DAY! yes, it really is, even I have faith in this. What was the latest hold up? the highly anticipated gift cards didn’t end up working out the way we imagined so it was back to the drawing board, but they are going to be beautiful and will be ready to go tomorrow. All the rest of the testing is complete and, as far as we could tell, everything works smoothly (tomorrow I’ll be asking you all to help us make sure this is true).
We’re getting our first new hire trained and the second new hire has his first day tomorrow. We are slowly but surely restocking everything that ran out last month, suppliers are catching up, almost all the Leg Avenue items are back, EG Smith & Sol socks fleece tabis should be in this week or next, Feelmax & Hot Sox should be in soon too as well as a filler Biella order. We have all been trying on socks and taking pictures of eachother as time permits since I haven’t had any time or energy at the end of the day for weeks so new items should start showing up before too much longer (I am sooo sorry for not getting everything up sooner, I had no way of knowing this past month was going to be quite as crazy as it was).
That’s all the news for now….

I recall the question of who really likes navy being asked in this journal. I came forward as the proud navy-lover I am (the colour just looks gorgeous on me). I, and others, however complained about that navy very often was too dark, almost like black. Sometimes you had to put it next to black to see the difference.
Well these come in a true, real navy! It’s dark, but there is no problem seeing the difference from black.Like all the other Long Cuffable Scrunchables I’ve tried the stretch over my 22-23″ thighs, if anything these are a little softer than the dark red and hunter greens. The also stretch all the way up to my crotch, as can be seen in the photo.
The feet are a little loose, but just a little, and I love how they hug my calves; making them feel snug and warm. Let’s face it: I just love them beyond measure and I will get more.