mmkn
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I've recently discovered something that levels the playing field as far as end-of-the-day comfort between my high-tech running shoes and dress shoes (both RTW and bespoke).
They're separately molded left and right socks, although not numerically sized (like some of my dress socks) but S-M-L sized, such as these from Asics -
http://www.asicsamerica.com/products...Y_ID=250001574.
I've gone à la Thom Browne with these socks in my dress shoes (both RTW and bespoke), and I can't tell a significant difference compared to my Asics Gel Kayano with regards to my feet's comfort at the end of the day.
It makes sense. Socks interact dynamically with the muscles and ligaments of the feet, while shoes just fit over their bony architecture. How the feet feel at the end of the day is probably related to how much lactic acid might be built up from the feet having to "go against the grain" stretching cotton/wool/nylon/Spandex.
I wear synthetic gloves in my profession, so an analogy would be wearing the throwaway gloves in a box that is made on the same mold for both hands versus the sterile gloves made from separate left and right molds that come individually packaged. The left-right made ones are obviously more comfortable.
I hope dress sock makers out there will follow this trend.
- M
They're separately molded left and right socks, although not numerically sized (like some of my dress socks) but S-M-L sized, such as these from Asics -
http://www.asicsamerica.com/products...Y_ID=250001574.
I've gone à la Thom Browne with these socks in my dress shoes (both RTW and bespoke), and I can't tell a significant difference compared to my Asics Gel Kayano with regards to my feet's comfort at the end of the day.
It makes sense. Socks interact dynamically with the muscles and ligaments of the feet, while shoes just fit over their bony architecture. How the feet feel at the end of the day is probably related to how much lactic acid might be built up from the feet having to "go against the grain" stretching cotton/wool/nylon/Spandex.
I wear synthetic gloves in my profession, so an analogy would be wearing the throwaway gloves in a box that is made on the same mold for both hands versus the sterile gloves made from separate left and right molds that come individually packaged. The left-right made ones are obviously more comfortable.
I hope dress sock makers out there will follow this trend.
- M