The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[Mother of Chaos]

Great socks are no joke! I have purchased them and found they're awful so a waste of money. I've bought what was supposed to be wool and they were minimally wool These have almost a sherpa lining, got them at TJ Maxx. Should have bought more. I like your socks! Do you have to hand wash them? I guess I should, but I don't, but then, I don't have any good wool socks, only posers.

No, I don’t hand wash them, but I’ve started air drying them, as our very enthusiastic gas dryer, the Shrink-O-Matic, does a bit too good of a job.

These aren’t 100% wool, and there’s enough other fibers to hold them together well. Wool content and sock thickness vary, which you can filter for.

AND, the clincher:

 

[kattabelly]

I gave myself four new pairs of Darn Tough wool socks for Christmas. Recently they’ve only come off for sleeping and the shower. Worth every penny! AND they sell women’s large sizes.
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Darn Tough socks are great!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Darn Tough socks are great!

I bought these recently just for silliness. They’re only 45% merino wool, so they’ll have to wait for spring, but I couldn’t resist. I bought them in both yellow and blue :

https://darntough.com/products/wome...weight-lifestyle-socks?variant=43813142659258

 

[1muttsfan]

I have lots of pairs of wool socks. Unfortunately unless I can find a woman's large women's socks don't fit me. So I buy men's, and they have a little wiggle room, so I do put them in the washer but never in the dryer.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I have lots of pairs of wool socks. Unfortunately unless I can find a woman's large women's socks don't fit me. So I buy men's, and they have a little wiggle room, so I do put them in the washer but never in the dryer.

I’ve been amazed for over fifty years now how women’s clothing manufacturers believe that all American women are 5’3”, size 6 or maybe 8, and wear size 6 shoes.

Signed, once 5’9” (I’ve shrunk), size 9.5-10 shoes, and I’m not posting my dress size!

 

[speckledhen]

I don't usually have a problem with socks unless they're Reeboks. I have skinny ankles and they always bind anyway. Never again will I buy that brand. I wear a 7.5W in a shoe, which used to be a size smaller as a kid, but the toe box has to be wide and the heel, not so much. I hate buying shoes. I usually wear hiking books or muck boots around here. I often buy men's boots if I can find that very odd size 6-6.5 that is a very small men's or very large boy's. Women's shoes have stupid narrow toe boxes.

 

[speckledhen]

No one is posting their dress size here, haha! I weigh the same as I did at 17, but it was a long circuitous route to get back to it after babies and sugar addiction. I was 25 lb heavier than I am now when I graduated high school at 16.
How did we get on this topic? The long way around, from our toes up, I guess!

 

[kattabelly]

That's interesting - I have small but wide feet, buy both "men's" and "women's" (and sometimes older kid's) clothes and footwear and I've honestly never noticed a difference in the shape of shoes.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

That's interesting - I have small but wide feet, buy both "men's" and "women's" (and sometimes older kid's) clothes and footwear and I've honestly never noticed a difference in the shape of shoes.

My (adoptive) mother has long but very narrow feet and back in the day wore a 5A or 4A width in shoes. She broke her right leg learning to ski, because her ski boots were so loose that she couldn't really control her turns and simply stopped by skiing into someone else and hoping for the best. Eventually, that resulted in a very large man falling down on her.

I haven't seen the infamous "quint A" widths in women's shoes in a long time, just narrow, regular, and wide. I suspect that beginning in the 50's or 60's, girls started going barefoot as often as we could, and so we didn't grow up to have feet like ice skate blades!

@speckledhen I have the same narrow heels and broad toe box, plus high arches for the trifecta. I wore Topo Phantom 2 (5 mm stack) athletic shoes for a while until I found myself absent-mindedly quacking when I looked down at my feet... I switched to Oboz and love them; great heel cup support.

 

[speckledhen]

I haven't seen the infamous "quint A" widths in women's shoes in a long time, just narrow, regular, and wide. I suspect that beginning in the 50's or 60's, girls started going barefoot as often as we could, and so we didn't grow up to have feet like ice skate blades!

You won't believe this, but my adoptive mother wore a AAAA shoe! Don't recall if it was a 5 or 6, though. When I was little, she used to take me into downtown Atlanta to get her shoes at Thompson Boland Lee shoe store because they were the only place she could find them at the time.