Introducing Polonova!
Last month a local woman contacted Sock Dreams telling my staff of her lovely wares and asking if we were interested. Bsti intercepted an email with her link and told me I really needed to see them. No, I don’t need to see any more must have socks right now, we already have more coming than I can possibly manage sanely, but curiosity always gets me and sure enough, they’re awesome!
So I wrote her and we met and I ordered and she screen printed, resulting in a lovely assortment arriving as our starter order. Now, as I mentioned, I am swamped (just the way I like it btw, but I am forever overestimating how much I can accomplish in a day) so I decided they’d be store only til we catch up and can get them all properly photographed. But I just know some of you are going to love them!
Here’s the basic information: the knee highs are made in the US, nylon trouser socks, then they are screen printed by hand with the best patterns I have seen, every edge is perfect, no weird gaps or overlaps. The colors are black with silver or gold and red, maroon, brown & olive with black (swirls only on the colors).
The wrist warmers are soft yummy velvet with a mehndi pattern screen printed on in copper (as specially requested by me because it looked awesome and I didn’t want to bother with silver & gold).
So, if you are brave and willing to play a little game with me, I’m going to let you buy them with the catch that you can only suggest a color and we’ll choose the pattern and send them off to you with a wink and a smile.
Polonova Knee Highs
Polonova Velvet Wrist Warmers
September 17th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
want! Swirls & square spirals!!!! :D
September 17th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Oh man the red velvet hand things would look sooooooooo nice with my top hat….
September 18th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Oh those swirls!!! And the wrist warmers would be sooooo awesome for bellydance. Want want want!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:34 am
This is the best idea I’ve seen yet!
*Shuffles wallet around… shakes out loose change*
I am tentative only because I can’t pick what I want for myself and I would want them to coordinate with my Steampunk garb, but I can’t possibly tell you how much I wish you would carry everything of hers!!! They would become the best things on your site in my humble opinion…. and that’s saying something!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:18 am
I’m loving the wrist warmers but I have small hands. I cannot wear bangles because they will fall off. Do you think they will fit me?
If Polonova worked under Diana Vreeland wow. The stories I imagine she could tell.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:21 am
The velvet warmers are large enough to be comfortable on a man’s hands and can be a little loose at the wrist on small arms, they were fine on me though and I am slightly petite according to some.
I do think these are among the most awesome sock-type-things I’ve seen lately and I have an awful lot of awesome things finding their way to my table lately ~=D
September 18th, 2008 at 7:07 am
ooo those velvet wrist warmers in the green colour are so pretty! *drool* too bad I’m broke :P lol ah well, in the future…
September 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Those patterns. Are. Gorgeous! I’m obsessed with filigree-ish swirls! (How obsessed? I’m planning on getting my back tattoo’d with them. THAT’S how obsessed!)
These knee-highs are an absolute necessity for me…
September 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
ok sneeking peeks from work i just couldnt decide which i loved most…now looking in full view at home at the 2nd picture of the leg displays i love the best are 1st, 2nd & 5th in that order…the first design is crazy beautiful! i am so excited to see which was chosen for me!!!!!!!!! they are all so beatiful! and the gold color design so very lovely and is that brown or black? oh i cant wait i cant wait i cant wait – me b-day prezzie to maself!
and when they come again i will buy another and then i will wear one of each cuz they all look so pretty together and compliment each other perfectly!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I had so much fun pulling these orders today, I do hope you all enjoy what you receive!!! We’ve still got some left and I’m tempted to go in Friday morning and help with the morning pull, but may stay home and set up my new Flor carpet tiles instead. Right now I am putting in an order with Leg Avenue while Lola snoozes at my side…
September 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
BTW, of course I asked about thigh highs, but in her opinion they didn’t work as well, so for now, just knee highs. But she has an awesome array of velvet gloves and I fully intend to offer as many varieties of her offerings as possible, in time…
September 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Oooh, so pretty! I just couldn’t pass these up. I’m excited to see which sock color and pattern I receive. I put in a *hint* for the brown wrist warmers just because they look so scrumptious on Bsti. ;o) Thanks so much Niqkita!
September 18th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
WOW! I’m going viral!!
Great to hear such enthusiastic response. Thanks, everyone.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
This is the coolest picture of bsti since the last picture of bsti.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I really love the look and style of this new design! They look like they were meant for royalty, which I think would be a treat when I’m feeling down; because I’m guessing they’d make me feel just a little more special. I’ll wait until I can choose more exactly, but I think Sock Dreams should definitely offer more of these beautiful and unique socks, warmers, gloves, and more…Thanks for making them Polonova!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
These are so fabulous! I’m going to have to have one of each!!!!!
September 20th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Pretty please tell me you’ll be getting in the full length velvet arms?? Those look SO beautiful!
September 20th, 2008 at 5:28 am
….I’d also like to mention how awesome this model for those warmers is!
September 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Just went and nabbed a pair of the wrist warmers in store and they are, in a words, amazing. They’ll be stuck on my hands all winter, if I have anything to say it!
And the knee-highs are gorgeous, and so perfect.
<3
September 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
These look so beautiful! The knee-highs look like they’ll go perfect with all kinds of cute shoes, with the pattern going down the foot like that. Unfortunately I’m a little too broke right now to get a grab-bag style, since I’m bound to want another if I don’t pick specifically, but once they’re available to choose from, I will definitely be buying a pair!
September 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Sweet!!!
The response to these has been tremendous
and we already have more being made.
I definitely plan on adding more of the velvet glove lengths.
Thanks to all for all the feedback and orders!!!!!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 am
i received min ein record speed – SATURDAY!!! got the gggggrrrrrrrrrrreat Dragons! so clean & detailed! so pretty packaging so cool so yummm!
oh i just cant wait to give myself some TLC for the feet before i try them so not to snag their prettiness!
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 am
Raubynn… I didn’t see your note of preferences here in the journal til after I pulled your order. Imagine my horror when I later read that with a choice of 5 I didn’t even pick one in your top 3, but I remembered all the times before that I’ve picked stuff for you that you didn’t know was going to become your favorite ~;D
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 am
you know me better than i know myself ~ :)
i am thinking with these i have to start saving cuz every time i look at them i KNOW I MUST HAVE THEM ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am
I got the red and black swirlies, and while I am still drooling over the dragons, I do love these. I can’t wait til they are actually put up!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Do these socks come in a knee sock version?
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
As always you guys have impressed. HAve Ordered…will have to wait for the Socks. I love you, yes even you
September 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Ok, first off let me say thank you Thank you thank you for sending me the red warmers. I will be wearing them to threads hehe.
One thing I would like to comment on is that that are a bit loose around the wrist. I am 5′7″ with a medium frame. I will uplaod pictures soon so everyone can marvel at the wonder of these nummies.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Oh, such exquisite beauty – black and gold velvet elbow gloves.. a piece of art. Spasibo so much, Polonova )
September 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
.. But nothing can be compared to the Mehndi wrist warmers.. It simply had to be copper, just for the Autumn leaves.. and mySelf : )
October 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Aww, the links don’t work anymore. = (
October 6th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Yeah, I don’t know what happened there but it is fixed now ~=)
October 7th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Oh yay I was going to say, oh no i wanted to order some so badly!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am
[...] Last September I introduced the Polonova socks and wrist warmers… Despite only offering a random selection of the knee highs … requiring you, our dedicated sock lovers, to trust us… to pick a pattern and color you were going to love… they’ve been a huge hit! Now that things have settled down a little here and I have caught up with my endless backlog of images to shoot and edit we have a few styles set and ready to go with more coming! So far we have the Klimt spirals, vines and floral lace up (I’ll be getting better images of the lace done this weekend). We’ll also be adding dragons, square spirals, mehndi patterns (like the velvet wrist warmers), more colors and silk screened velvet gloves with full fingers! [...]
February 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am
[...] Last September I introduced the Polonova socks and wrist warmers… Despite only offering a random selection of the knee highs … requiring you, our dedicated sock lovers, to trust us… to pick a pattern and color you were going to love… they’ve been a huge hit! Now that things have settled down a little here and I have caught up with my endless backlog of images to shoot and edit we have a few styles set and ready to go with more coming! So far we have the Klimt spirals, vines and floral lace up (I’ll be getting better images of the lace done this weekend). We’ll also be adding dragons, square spirals, mehndi patterns (like the velvet wrist warmers), more colors and silk screened velvet gloves with full fingers! [...]
February 8th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
So beautiful!! But I want thigh highs…
February 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
of course you do! I knew we’d be asked so I checked with her in advance. Sadly she says her designs are to intricate to do all the way up, we’d end up with gaps and overlaps. But we will have more and more cool thigh highs before you know it!