Why Should Socks Match?
I prefer them to be mismatched and in colors other than various shades of boring.
Mine from yesterday, photographed for a friend: 
My friend wanted to know whether bright, multi-colored stripes on her floor would be too much with the big, bright, multi-colored dots already on her walls.
My answer: "No, they wouldn't."
My follow-up answer, accompanied by the photo: "Then again, maybe I'm the wrong person to ask."
Okay, well, there's mismatched and then there's mismatched. Deliberate mismatching one groovy, colorful sock with another is fine. In fact, I would encourage it. Mismatching a brown sock with a black one just means you were folding socks in bad light.
I did that with shoes once. I had an old pair of wing tips and a newer pair. I managed one morning to go to work with one of each!
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at June 9, 2014 7:22 AM
Bush the Elder is apparently into socks, too, though he seems to match them or have someone do that for him.
https://www.google.com/search?q=george+bush+socks&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=V8aVU8GUB8bfoATmzoDQCg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1528&bih=944
Amy Alkon at June 9, 2014 7:37 AM
Of course, I got mine where he probably didn't -- Ross Dress For Less. I think they were $4.99 for a huge packet of assorted wild socks. Recently, if you're aspiring!
Amy Alkon at June 9, 2014 7:38 AM
That left sock either looks like a grinning madman or an unhappy alien, depending on the direction. Or maybe it's that Slender Man I've been hearing about so much lately.
Pricklypear at June 9, 2014 8:36 AM
It's nice that those tootsies should have a little color in their life. I hear they have never seen the sun...
Radwaste at June 9, 2014 9:31 AM
"Ross Dress For Less. I think they were $4.99 for a huge packet of assorted wild socks".
Is that where they re-appear after they dis-appear from my dryer without a trace?
Goo at June 9, 2014 10:05 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/06/09/why_should_sock.html#comment-4739421">comment from GooIs that where they re-appear after they dis-appear from my dryer without a trace?
I truly do not understand where socks go. I have a drawerful of unmatching socks. I decided the $4.99 would be worth the time savings I would have in searching for socks even of the same kind!
Amy Alkon
at June 9, 2014 12:25 PM
Socks should match the color of your shoes and pants. That way there is no distracting flash of color when you walk in the work place. :->
But my real beef is with men's dress socks. They come in pairs of three with three different patterns. Why??? I just want plain black socks so they all match. Or if they must have a pattern, 3 of the same pattern. Over the years I end up with dozens of patterns and matching them is a pain in the *#%.
Ben at June 10, 2014 5:24 PM
wait, you wear soxks?
whatzit like?
Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at June 11, 2014 6:55 AM
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