An Open Letter to Whoever Invented Cheap Cotton Socks

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TL;DR — The Sock Crimes Summarized

Here's the deal: cheap cotton socks absorb your sweat and hold it hostage against your skin like some kind of damp, clingy ex. Your feet have 250,000 sweat glands each, and cotton turns every single one of them into a tiny sauna. Bamboo fiber contains a natural antibacterial agent called Bamboo Kun. Cotton contains hopes and prayers.

Cotton farming nearly destroyed the Aral Sea (yes, an actual sea). Meanwhile, bamboo can grow 91 cm in a single day. Bamboo socks retain 94% of their softness after 50 washes. Cotton socks lose their will to live after about three.

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Dear Person Who Invented Cheap Cotton Socks — We Need to Talk

Somewhere out there, a person invented the cheap cotton sock. They probably thought they were helping. They were not.

I don't know who you are. I don't know where you are. But I need you to understand what you've done to humanity's feet. Each human foot contains approximately 250,000 sweat glands, according to Gotham Footcare. That's half a million sweat glands between two feet, capable of producing more than half a pint of moisture per day. And you looked at all of that and said,

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