What came first, shoes or socks?
Did people make socks and realize, “Uh-oh—we need something harder and more waterproof, cause these things suck…”?
Or did people make shoes and realize, “Uh-oh—we need something to keep our feet from getting blisters all over and to prevent our shoes from smelling like rotten fruit…”?
Why haven’t we made a sock-and-shoe-in-one combo yet? We’re acting like pilgrims. It’s 2019—why don’t we have our socks built into our shoes?
Just realized why this wouldn’t work as I was typing it—you wouldn’t be able to wash the sock if it was built into the shoe, so you need to keep the two units separate.
You know what—I think I answered this one for myself just by throwing ideas out there. Here’s my prediction: someone made a shoe first and was wearing it around. After a few days, the inside of the shoe smelled like an a**, so they decided to make a sock that they could wear inside the shoe. In a sense, the shoe protects the foot, and the sock protects the shoe.
Our feet are like important government officials that have two separate tiers of federal agents (our socks (tier 1) and shoes (tier 2)) that are all prepared to sacrifice themselves at the drop of a hat in the protection of our feet.
This got weird.
I can’t believe my life has reached a point where I’m publicly forming analogies between socks and Secret Service agents.
Until next time,
Michael J. Erickson, CEO & Co-Founder
