This may sound insane: clock socks

[NotoriousMarquis]

I had never head of clock socks before, or socks with clocks, but I'm writing my thesis on several books, one of which is The Big Sleep, and there are four mentions of socks with clocks on them. I've found some information about what a clock sock patten is on AAAC, but it doesn't seem very precise. Could anybody inform me about what socks with clocks might have looked like in the 1930's, and where one might (ghasp) even find a pair?

 

[Gdot]

 

[DocHolliday]

Those are a visual pun, but that's the idea. Clock socks have a narrow pattern (not usually clocks) that runs up the leg and along the foot. Looks like clock hands when viewed from the side.

I'm wearing clock socks today.

 

[NotoriousMarquis]



Those are a visual pun, but that's the idea. Clock socks have a narrow pattern (not usually clocks) that runs up the leg and along the foot. Looks like clock hands when viewed from the side.
I'm wearing clock socks today.

Doc could you tell me how they look like clock hands—do you mean they follow the foot and without shoes the angle of the foot make it look like a clock at 2:30 or 10:30?

 

[DocHolliday]

Yes, that's right. The pattern itself varies, but from any distance, the effect is a vertical stripe up the leg.

 

[Gdot]

additional reading for those with OCD and who must know more.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?103190-Where-to-get-great-socks...

 

[NotoriousMarquis]

Doc--thanks.

Gdot--Ocd, maybe; ive just spent the last 9 months writing a paper that has required me to read the opening paragraph of the big sleep a million times, and eventually the thing about socks has served as a good distraction (paper is due in 46 hours and 45 minutes)

 

[F. Corbera]

 

[Despos]

Is it a fact that these are sometimes worn with formal wear or am I grossly mistaken?

One of my favorite Bogart Movies. Started reading Chandler after viewing the movie.

 

[Gdot]



Doc--thanks.
Gdot--Ocd, maybe; ive just spent the last 9 months writing a paper that has required me to read the opening paragraph of the big sleep a million times, and eventually the thing about socks has served as a good distraction (paper is due in 46 hours and 45 minutes)

Hope you weren't offended. I was certainly including myself in the category of those who can become engrossed in accuracy and minutia,

 

[fxh]

 

[max b]

http://bresciani1970.blogspot.it/2011/07/old-good-socks.html

 

[Stirling]

Those are a visual pun, but that's the idea. Clock socks have a narrow pattern (not usually clocks) that runs up the leg and along the foot. Looks like clock hands when viewed from the side.
I'm wearing clock socks today.

Thank you.

 

[NotoriousMarquis]



Is it a fact that these are sometimes worn with formal wear or am I grossly mistaken?
One of my favorite Bogart Movies. Started reading Chandler after viewing the movie.

I wasn't crazy about the film—bogie is just so different from Marlowe, but the book totally blew me away. I had no idea a detective novel could be so well written. I have oved writing about it, and a year ago I would have laughed if someone told me I would be so captivated that I would ask about Marlowe's socks on the internet.

Hope you weren't offended. I was certainly including myself in the category of those who can become engrossed in accuracy and minutia,

Not at all! That's what we do here, go nuts over the small details—and I appreciate that a lot. It's just that I felt the need to articulate why exactly the details of clock socks were of such great significance.


(4 sentences left, proofreading, then bibliography, by he way. I'm almost free)

 

[fxh]

Seeing I posted a picture of my clock socks, admittedly without classy broad, gun, booze or cadaver.........There are some rare books on the table , nude painting on wall, although these days the pornography is on computer................ Any chance of a summary or abstract of the essay?

I'm a noir addict connoisseur .

Are they all crime noir books?