My toe socks arrived! I've been dying to try these because I hear they can deal with toe problems. If your shoe has a wide toe box, but your sock is a toe-scruncher, then the shoe's wide toe box is for nothing.
Before the unbagging:
First look at my several pairs of toe socks:
Because I was impatient, I had to try one on:
I need to look up some tutorials on how to put these on fast because putting this sock on took time and patience. If the process is going to be that much of a bitch every single day, toe socks might not be worth the trouble. But I only just got these socks, so I'll keep an open mind and will learn my way around them.
YouTube Short: Toe Socks Are Great!
I've worn toe socks before, and it's hard to imagine that there would be a "fast" way of putting them on. I imagine you might get faster with practice, but I'm pretty sure they are always going to be significantly more of a faff than regular socks. You may have to weigh the faff against how much you actually like them when you're wearing them on walks. After all, you only have to put them on once in the morning, right?
ReplyDeleteDo you still use them, or did you stop? And if you stopped, why did you do so?
ReplyDeleteI stopped quite a while back, mainly because I did the calculus I suggested above and found that the faff was not worth whatever benefits I might have received. (Translation: I am a lazy bastard.) That being said, I think if I had more of an issue with blisters, fungus, etc., I might think of giving them another shot.
ReplyDeleteAnother upside: If you ever want to challenge someone to a duel, you can take off a shoe, dramatically remove a sock toe by toe, and then slap your opponent across the face with it.
My feet are pretty fugly, but at least I haven't had a fungus problem (that I know of). Blisters, on the other hand, are a reality for me on trans-Korea walks. I'm hoping that the toe socks, along with the super-flexible Skechers, will eliminate any toe-box-related issues entirely and maybe even reduce the number of blisters and irritations I get on the trail. But really, the number-one way to reduce the blister problem is just to lose weight and thereby lessen friction.
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