Did you know? Everything about socks, pantyhose, stockings, tights, stocking

...that, that the reasons for a missing sock after washing are as follows:

• in 26% of cases a sock is forgotten in the washing machine
• in 25% of cases a sock has been left in the dryer
• in 21% of cases a sock has fallen unnoticed
• in 14% of cases the socks attach themselves to other laundry articles due to static
• in 13% of cases the other sock was thrown away because one sock was missing

(Source: (http://www.etext.org/zines/planet/pm4/lostsoks.htm)

…that even old but clean socks (e.g. when one sock is missing) can be given to the clothing collection to be used there for the manufacture of shoddy wool?

…that the company Jacob Rohner AG uses more than 15 different fibres and materials for its sock manufacture?

…that socks are the first industrially manufactured clothing article?

…that more than 40% of men look at woman's legs first?

…that stockings for men were brought back onto the market in 1958?

Taking advantage of the favourable situation, an attempt was made to expand this sales success with pantyhose for male customers. The idea was primarily targeted on the sports segment, such as skiing and ice skating, in which tights were meant to convince particularly through their elasticity. Though not at first, but at least in the early stages, the today renowned hosiery manufacturer Kunert produced the Helanca men's tights. In the beginning on the cotton machines, so that the tights would have a seam at the back. Following an initially optimistic estimate of the market, that men's tights would one day be able to displace men's long underwear, a study showed that men's tights were still an idea ahead of its time. Opinions such as "rompers for babies", "grandfatherly attribute" were expressed; in short, the tights were considered to be completely unmanly. In addition, tights had no advantage in comparison to long underwear and it was also revealed that a majority of men never wore long underwear. The Kunert company and other manufacturers stopped production as a consequence. At the beginning of the 1970's, men's knitted tights made a breakthrough after all, but competition from the more modern and better fitting underwear increased, so that production since the 80's and 90's again declined. Only at the end of the 1990's was an attempt made to breathe new life into men's tights with a men's fine tights.   In 1998 the Wolford company launched its men's "Waist-sox" tights with elaborate advertisement and staging.

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