The six-pairs-for-three-dollars (brand) were as good as the $12 a pair variety.

If I were a jogger or runner looking for a pair of socks, I would not want a sock that was overall cotton. I'd look for a pair that had different compositions of materials in different parts of the sock.

If you have one pair of good soles its better than two pairs of good uppers.

This isn't just about helping athletes prevent blisters. We can help diabetics if we can figure out where they need specific materials in their socks. Then, we find out where diabetics have skin trauma and target those areas.

Having a few pairs of boots, which can go with a variety of lengths, is really functional.

We needed about 200 pairs to fill the closet, and you figure $500 a pair - well, you just can't go and spend $100,000 on shoes, so you do what you can,