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Sock it to me...

My Poppet : your weekly dose of crafty inspiration: Sock it to me...

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Saturday, 16 July 2011

Sock it to me...

I think I developed an addiction to socks in Japan, I came back with about 15 pairs just for me, plus about 6 pairs for Emma. You see not only are there sock shops on every street corner, every shop has a different selection, each more awesome than the next. But the real kicker is 3 pairs for 1050 yen ($12ish) regardless of style or size, long or short, so one is forced to buy 3 pairs!Every time I bought some socks, I would tell Pilgrim that they were the last ones, and not to let me buy any more, but I have an illness and I just couldn't stop. The fact is I regret not buying more pairs to get me through to the next trip there.
So there were socks with 5 toes, split toes and no toes at all. Some with fronts but no heels, some with heels but no fronts, long, short, padded, thin thick and all cute. One size fits all so those with extra large feet are out of luck.
If I had to pick a favourite pair it would be the strawberry Mary Jane socks, but really I love them all.
Which are your favourites?

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9 Comments:

Blogger Bobishi said...

I love my japan socks too!! I always stockbup there.:) we must have the same illness...

16 July 2011 8:55 am  
Blogger Anna Bartlett said...

You have good looking feet! I think I like those yellow duck ones at the top.

16 July 2011 10:27 am  
Blogger Little Shop of Handmade said...

Major sock envy. Can't find a cute sock on Melbourne for the life if me.

16 July 2011 11:06 am  
Blogger Notchka said...

I had decided before you posed the question at the end of this post that the strawberry mary janes were the cutest, closely followed by the aubergine mary janes and the yellow ones with cherrys on.

16 July 2011 11:55 am  
Blogger Cass said...

Love them all but especially those red Mary-Janes

16 July 2011 9:12 pm  
Blogger Posie Patchwork said...

Oh strawberries never disappoint, add them to a Mary Jane style & a sock, heaven!! Love Posie
PS leaving my eldest who is getting As in Japanese at high school to check out your blog, i'm so proud of her, she wants to continue with Japanese & take me overseas!!

18 July 2011 10:06 am  
Anonymous Tara Benwell said...

I think Ana should have done an archive dive on socks! I would have shared my sock post if I had seen this one first. I've always wanted to go to Japan, but now I NEED to go. Thanks for sharing these. Next time you go, take orders! I love the ones in the bottom right corner. Our crossing guard wears those weird split toe shoes and I've wondered about how she finds socks to go in them.

9 October 2011 1:59 pm  
Blogger ana @ i made it so said...

i just might do a dive on socks sometime, tara! what a fun post. and my favourite? pingu pingu!

12 October 2011 2:02 pm  
Blogger clearlytangled said...

here from ana's dive.
super cute socks. i somehow missed these when i was in japan.
i think my favorite is also the strawberry socks.

13 October 2011 1:32 am  

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