the wacky world of socks!!

I have decided to give all of my family members socks for Christmas this year. Among other things. Socks are a great gift classic, probably because a good pair of socks is a good thing to have. I, for one have favorites among my socks, and I wear them accordingly. Sometimes I save my favorites, the way I save the last bite of steak, for a day towards the end of the laundry cycle... I'm a horder like that.

Internet research yields an eye-opening peek into the wacky world of socks. I was told once that I seem like the kind of person who would be into funky socks. I'm not ashamed to admit it. But I got nothing on some of the folks out there. Here are some of my favorite finds:

hands play with rubber bands

Rubber bands are hard to transform. They're intriguing, stretchy, and colorful, but their distinct texture and shape makes it difficult to turn them into something more. This is a successful transformation - the results are beautiful.
You can read more about this project by New York based Milev Architects in this deezeen article.

hair ball pin etc.

This hilarious piece of jewelry reminded me how I wanted my friend Tom, at Ultimate Shirt Co., to print a t-shirt that alread had sweat stains on it! Nice, big ones. He wasn't a big fan of the idea... I don't know if it would be such a big seller. I think it could be good, maybe if you use bright colorful colors. It would be funny.
Which reminds me, growing up in Austria, we never had hypercolor t-shirts, but I always wondered if you wouldn't just have hypercolored pits the whole time?? This great picture I found was just too good to be true....it's american apparel.