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Thinking abt immortality and how meticulously you’d have to keep track of all of your shit so some nosy historian didnt spot your old journal or coat or copy of a book and call an infuriating time-based finders keepers

“It’s two hundred years old” they say. “It’s essentially public property” they say. It’s a letter you sent to your friend and it’s in a museum now and you’re screaming

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i have decided that to simplify my life and make everyone else's worse i am going to combine american and british spellings. for example:

•centere

•programmme

•graey

•apflatment

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Love the word "also". I have more things to say

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What Is "Slow Fashion"? Let's talk about it.

If you've shopped for clothing in recent years (and let's face it -- we all need clothes from time to time), you may have come across the phrase "slow fashion". It sounds like it's a new buzzword or marketing gimmick, and like any claims of sustainability, it could certainly be twisted in this way, but at its core slow fashion is just an alternative and solution to "fast fashion".

You've probably heard about the issues with fast fashion: the toxic chemicals involved, the wastewater dumping and microplastics, the human rights violations, and the billions of pounds of clothing being sent to landfills every year. It's all deeply depressing and existentially horrifying stuff, which we probably don't need to beat you over the head with, metaphorically speaking.

Feel free to explore the subject at your own pace -- we bring it up now in order to provide context to the aim of slow fashion.

Consumer culture has gotten to this point because in recent decades the push to chase after rapidly shifting trends has spawned a side of the fashion industry that quickly pumps out clothing based on these trends, and in turn these companies have started generating more and more microtrends to push the sale of more clothing. The clothes are usually cheaply made from low quality materials, and are less expensive than better quality items. Keeping up with new trends means buying new clothing more frequently, so if that's one's aim, it's easy to end up spending just as much, if not more on fast fashion, despite the lower price tags.

Often these styles go from design to production very quickly, are sold for a season or less, and are never made again. So, if you fall in love with a piece, once it wears out, you probably won't be able to replace it. And because it's made with cheap materials and often in working conditions that demand quantity over quality, these pieces tend to fall apart faster than items made with more care.

Of course, not everybody who buys clothing from fast fashion brands are just trend chasing. Many continue to wear their fast fashion favorites for many seasons or years -- essentially until they fall apart. If you don't have a lot of money to spend on clothing, it just makes sense to buy whatever's the least expensive. Not everyone is equally responsible for textile waste -- those with higher incomes tend to discard 76% more clothing than their lower income counterparts.

Enter slow fashion...

⬑ Then and now: one of the original Long Cuffable Scrunchable Socks photos (we still have some photos from this shoot in other colorways on our site!) vs. a more recent photo ⬏

Rather than generating new trends that demand constant wardrobe updates, slow fashion companies are focusing on creating high quality pieces that will last longer, and remain wardrobe staples for years. Quality workmanship and working conditions are usually prioritized. It follows that these items do tend to cost more, but for those who can afford the initial investment, their durability and general quality is an investment that pays off.

Natural fibers tend to be more comfortable, while quality construction means that garments hang right (You ever buy a pair of cheap jeans with one leg that wants to twist? Yeah, me too.), and seams don't unravel as soon as you wash them a few times.

"Slow fashion" wasn't a term that was on anyone's radar when Sock Dreams began (as I publish this, we're 100 days away from our 25th birthday!), but the concept aligns with what has generally been our own philosophy when it comes to developing our product line.

⬑ Then and now: Extraordinary Striped Thigh Highs in black and sweet cream circa 2010 (left) vs. the same colorway from a more recent shoot (right). ⬏

Every item created for us is made in the USA, mostly at small mills, which helps to minimize the environmental impact of shipping them long distances. It also means we know about the labor laws and conditions under which they were produced.

We aim to create perennial favorites that we love to wear year after year, and which last for many, many wearings with proper care. It's true that some of our items cost more than you might be used to paying for a single pair of socks, but many of our customers agree that the quality and durability is worth the investment! However, we do want our socks to be accessible to as many people as possible, which is why we don't charge the sort of retail markups that fast fashion brands often do.

⬑ Then and now: our Ribbed M Stockings circa 2004 (left), and a photo from last year (right)!. ⬏

Part of the joy of these timeless wardrobe staples is that once you've loved your socks until they're falling apart, you can often come back for a new pair years after the initial purchase. In fact, some of the items we carry today, such as our M Stockings and M Stripes, have been in our catalogue since 2004!

⬑ Then and now: M Stipes Thigh High Socks circa 2004 (left) and as they appear on our site today (right). They still look super cute with a petticoat! ⬏

The fact is that most of us are not constantly reinventing our style every week or two, but rather dialing in an aesthetic that gradually evolves over the years. Great pieces, like our flagship Extraordinary Thigh High Styles, stay relevant year after year, which is why they've been some of our best selling items since we introduced them 15 years ago!

⬑ A peek at the original product page for our Extraordinary Thigh High Socks circa 2010! Given that some of us still have pairs from this original batch, I think it's fair to say that they're not fast fashion. ⬏

As we celebrate 25 years in the sock business on August 3rd, 2025, we plan on keeping these styles around for many years to come! Of course we still enjoy the process of creating fresh new designs, and when our customers love something, to us that just means that we should keep making it. After all, true style is timeless!

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dragon age: origins if it was WOKE

MORRI-PAN

leliana

BI-STAIR THEY-RIN

zevran arainai

WLWYNNE

STEN OF THE BEAR-ESAAD

ARO-GHREN

shale

LO-GAY-IN MAC TIR

the dog

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sold

and feets!

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This is the best one

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Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

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imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora

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Belted Kingfisher I know you don’t care but you mean everything to me girl

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rock lee vs gaara but…. more

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It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

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oh yes it's that time of year

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SO TRUE BUT HEY

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It's the last day of April

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a lot of people scoff at transmascs for not wanting to be friends with people who say stuff like "kill all men" and "i hate men" but what i think a lot of people dont seem to grasp is that when you're transmasc, and one if your friends says something like that, it leaves two possibilities:

a) your friend doesnt see you as a man (which is just straight up transphobia)

or

b) your friend hates you. and idk about you, but i generally require all of my friends to like me. thats kind of just, a baseline requirement for friendship, i think.

but moreover specifically they hate you for being a man. and i think what a lot of people have trouble wrapping their brains around is the fact that, when you're a trans man, and someone says they hate you specifically for being a man, what theyre saying is that they hate you for transitioning. they're saying they would like you better if you hadn't transitioned. they'd like you better if you were cis. which yes, is also transphobia. but also for many of us, (not all, but many) there is no universe in which we would have survived not transitioning.

in my case, i had pretty frequent suicidal thoughts all throughout my life, up until i transitioned. once i reached a certain point in my transition, my suicidal thoughts disappeared. i never had another suicidal thought except when i was put in a situation where i was being denied transitional care. so if i had never transitioned, i would be suicidal if not dead. so when someone says they hate me for being a man, what i hear is "i would like you better if you were dead (or barring that, suicidal)"

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the real winner of the sexywoman contest is YURI!!!