Niqkita's Sock Journal

In the picture they were the prettiest pink & appeared to stay up without the help of a garter belt. When they arrived they were a stronger shade of pink, closer to salmon than baby, baby salmon perhaps? I signed them off to Janey to shoot on one of her models and they reported back that they don’t stay up for anything & start snagging the moment you touch them. So I decided to give them a try myself…

Out of the package they didn’t have the cheap feel I expected from such easily snagged stockings. I pulled them up with ease, so far so good, but the back seam wasn’t quite straight so I eased them back down below the knees and carefully pulled them back up paying special attention to the seam alignment. Perfect, but wait, where’d that snag come from? I didn’t even feel a slight tug on my nails, and that tiny hole, that wasn’t there a minute ago. Next I noticed that the heels were on my ankles, a quick adjustment fixed that, but they really weren’t going to stay up for any amount of walking without something holding them up so I added a pair of the panty garters, minimal support with those and it was plenty, plus, they looked perfect together!

Now that I’ve got them figured out I love them! they have plenty of stretch for the longer legged among us and with minor adjusting you should be able to make the cuban foot-bed work for a women’s size 8 up to a 12 (men’s 10), give or take a bit depending on how picky you are. I highly recommend using a wash bag and some special hosiery wash plus a pair of gloves that cover your fingers to help prevent snags from cuticles and nails. Though my pair didn’t suffer any additional damage after the initial incidents.

We might just run out of these this week, but will be ordering more immediately!

Just this afternoon boxes arrived full of our newest colors of these!!!
They are as soft, beautiful and stretchy as the tan & charcoal; in black, natural & red.
Liz brought in an armload to fold & tag while we all cooed over their glory. She also made an updated label for the new colors and will soon supply us with pretty pictures of them. Til then you’ll just have to trust us on the colors, they are the exact black, red & natural as the rest of our cotton Dream Stockings ~:)

We also [finally] got another batch of Toe Toe socks, the absolute best toe socks ever! They cost a little more and were a lot harder to get than we expected, but I think they were worth the wait and, hopefully, we’ll be able to stay better stocked on these in the future. I should get the images updated for them in the next week AND there is an OTK this time. Just one, pink clouds, two pinks and a lilac striped all pretty-like. There will be really funky furry warmers too.

And finally (for now), new Leg Avenue stuff. Janey already took pictures, I just need to sit and focus long enough to review them, should be any moment now. I just couldn’t go another minute without updating the journal ~:)

There has been a huge increase in the variety of stripes available this year. We’re going to need a bigger warehouse just to make room for them all. I keep finding creative ways to come up with more space in the rooms we have now (I’ll have to get a good image tour for you before we start getting ready for the big move). These are the first of three new Ozone stripes for men. Nevermind that Ozone says they are made for men, I loved them and they fit me quite well. The colors are so pretty! way too many of them to list on each and every pair, but they go together perfectly. They were at the tops of my calves, nearly knee high. They also fit my sweetie’s feet quite well but were truly midcalf on him. He says they are lighter weight than the K. Bell men’s socks, but that the toe seam running across the tops of the toes is far comfier than the toe seams that run along the ends toes. A very nice spring or summer sock indeed! More stripes and “men’s” socks to come…

Like all things in life our slouch socks do not meet everyone’s expectations. But for the many of us who love them they are a kaleidescope of socky delight. With the warm weather coming to many regions people have been stocking up on these and we’ve seen quite a few orders like this one. Liz pulled this order and couldn’t resist lining them up in this dreamy rainbow, I couldn’t resist snapping a couple of quick shots to share. We fold & tag these ourselves right here in our little niche of the world and Liz & Janey, being our newest worker-bee-sock-dreamers, do the most folding & tagging. The real value of our Dream socks, to me, is that they are made & packaged here in the states by healthy happy American citizens who are earning fare wages and working in a safe, friendly environment. On nice days they might even be found sitting outside in a comfy spot zenning out on the rhythm of folding and tagging all the pretty colors. We currently have all of the colors in stock and are only low on a few. And, finally, here is that same batch of socks from the other end…

Also high on my original list of socks I dreamed of selling: hemp socks…
The 2 Brothers Hemp Crew is our third, and quite possibly my favorite hemp sock yet; like the other organics it also comes in two sizes. The EG Smith version was nice, but has not been available to us since last year.
Hemp is known for being easy to grow without the help of fertilizers and insecticides and the fiber is perfect for all kinds of things from paper to clothing and much much more. Unfortunately hemp has a bad reputation from a shady past and we’re not allowed to grow it here in the USA, not even for its fiber or pulp that could save forests full of trees. Hopefully that will change someday, but for now the hemp yarn is imported and mixed with cotton to make a soft absorbent sock that will keep your feet cooler than cotton alone. I thought I had more to say about this, but now I don’t remember what it was ~;)
We’ll be adding even more organic styles in the months to come!

With these we see the biggest fault I’ve found in the new organics, they run a bit small. The quarter crew above looks like a child’s sock all wrapped in its 100% recycled package. Surely they must stretch a lot I thought as I unwrapped them. Sure enough they stretched right onto my size 8.5 feet & sure enough it wasn’t long til they were half-way off my feet. I think they’ll be great for petite feet, kids maybe? And then there were these:

Meant to be a men’s sock, they fit so well and looked so great I could barely hand them over to be tested by my fav men’s sock tester. They did fit him, just not as well as they fit me and I’ve yet to take pictures of them on him so I’ve not yet added them to the men’s section. For some reason people are sometimes weird about buying socks for men that are shown on a woman. These are an ultimate boyfriends sock if ever there was one! They have a terry looping on the insides of the feet and I feared that would make my Mary Jane’s too snug, but the gentle padding actually made them more comfortable, now I just need to prove that men can actually wear them too ~;)

Organic socks were one of the ideas I put on my very first list of socks I wanted to sell. But getting them wasn’t as easy as it seemed since not many companies sold them back then and I was a new unknown with a funny business name. Every so often I looked into it and would give up each time I didn’t find a new lead. But, recently one of our main reps showed me a new line they’d taken on: organic US grown & made cotton socks! So I picked out a few to start with, if they’re popular we’ll get more. They come in both men’s & women’s sizes so we’ve been testing them out the past couple of weeks (of course you don’t have to be a guy to wear the larger size).
These are called Organic Dress socks, but we thought they made great casual socks too. Besides wearing them to work & around the house we wore them for walks & playing at the park with Lola and, of course, I gave them a good sleeping test too, they stayed on all night and didn’t over heat my feet. Of the four I’ll be showing you this week these are my fav’s for their variety (four colors in two sizes) and their flexibility (scrunch em, cuff em, wear em tall, well, to the tops of your calves anyway).