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  • #1435776
    Meno
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    Remember when socks used to be made of cotton and the feeling of putting on a brand new pair of socks was מעין עולם הבא?

    #1436241
    👑RebYidd23
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    If you have sensory issues, you can always buy socks marketed for that purpose and recoil in shock and horror when you discover that the manufacturers changed the recipe and the socks are now scratchy and misshapen.

    #1436300
    akuperma
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    Socks are often made of cotton now (as well as wool and many manufactured fabrics). New socks, feel like, new socks.

    #1436377
    BaltimoreMaven
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    “Modal” socks are unbelievably soft. Unfortunately they don’t last too long.

    #1436473
    Meno
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    Socks are often made of cotton now (as well as wool and many manufactured fabrics). New socks, feel like, new socks.

    10 years ago, you could buy Hanes socks and assume they were made of cotton without even looking at the package.

    Today, you would be hard-pressed to find a package of 100% cotton Hanes socks.

    I’m just using Hanes as an example. The same is true of other companies.

    #1436479
    akuperma
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    All products require checking labels. As a frum Jew, you are obvious used to the idea of needing to check labels. This does discriminate against those who don’t read English but you obviously can read English.

    #1436491
    Meno
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    All products require checking labels. As a frum Jew….

    My point was not that I have a problem with checking labels. My point was that cotton was once the standard (so much so that you could assume it without checking labels), but that is not the case anymore.

    #1436577
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    cotton was once the standard…but that is not the case anymore.

    that’s cuz when the slaves were freed the plantation owners couldn’t figure out how to get the cotton picked so we only had enough to last us til recently and that’s it.

    #1437290
    👑RebYidd23
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    Over the past ten years?

    #1437319
    Meno
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    So I know this started off as a rant but I actually do need new socks. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    I bought some from amazon and the description said it was something like 44% cotton, but after wearing one pair I noticed that the actual package said 97% polyester and some other stuff

    #1438407

    Sounds like false advertising.

    (On an unnecessary but related note, I wore multi-colored socks for
    the first time this past weekend, because someone had opened the
    dryer that mine were in and they weren’t ready in time for Shabbos.)

    #1439063

    Tip: don’t wear any socks

    #1439074
    Joseph
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    Random: You don’t have an extra pair of socks?

    #1440628
    picture this
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    “that’s cuz when the slaves were freed the plantation owners couldn’t figure out how to get the cotton picked so we only had enough to last us til recently and that’s it.”

    There are a lot of intelligent, educated, worldly people in the CR. It surprises me that after a week, no one has commented on this statement.

    Whether said seriously or not, this is how hatred is spread.

    #1440682
    Joseph
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    pt, whilst I agree with you that the comment you quoted was very unfair in its negative portrayal of southern plantation owners, I must say that my eved knani is a real sweet guy who does our dishes really well.

    #1440734

    The comment was obviously in jest, and plantation-owner-hatred isn’t a thing.

    Joseph, I do have multiple pairs of socks, but all except
    the ones I was wearing at the time had been washed.

    #1440735
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    Picture this – I can only assume that the intelligent and worldly CR readers understood that it was not a comment on the slaves but rather on the incompetence of the rich pampered slave owners.

    #1440777
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Of course on the other hand, the unintelligent or unworldly CR readers might not have understood that… 🙂

    (that was a joke, and I have no one specific in mind.).

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