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This is true: I just wear black socks. & there's really one kind of black socks I like, the ones linked above, by Dickies. Officially they're Dickies' Non-Binding Crew Socks. They feel like your average sock but are black. Other black socks are usually for dress shows, & they're too thin. Dickies black socks are just right.
This is the rare occasion where I have an opinion about what I wear. I generally wear tee shirts & jeans or shorts (depending on the weather) & don't really pay otherwise much attention - as a woman at KOOP in Austin told me once, "You dress like a thirteen year old boy!" But I prefer to wear black socks.
Why though? I dunno. When did I start doing that? Probably in the 1990s at some point. I was definitely a black sock fellow by the early 2000s when my nephew moved in with us. He apparently started wearing black socks too, because one trip back to my hometown my sister - his mother - asked me, "What have you done to my son?" Apparently somehow encouraging him to wear black socks (which I only could have done by example) was worse than all the drinking he & I did together.
It might seem I am mentioning this to endorse a product, but that would somehow mean I was enough of a "celebrity" to "endorse" anything. I'm not. If Dickies thought to send me some socks, however, I would not be averse to such a delightful gift. Though I probably won't talk about socks again on Self Help Radio after this week's show. So Dickies would have very little to gain indeed.
This is the rare occasion where I have an opinion about what I wear. I generally wear tee shirts & jeans or shorts (depending on the weather) & don't really pay otherwise much attention - as a woman at KOOP in Austin told me once, "You dress like a thirteen year old boy!" But I prefer to wear black socks.
Why though? I dunno. When did I start doing that? Probably in the 1990s at some point. I was definitely a black sock fellow by the early 2000s when my nephew moved in with us. He apparently started wearing black socks too, because one trip back to my hometown my sister - his mother - asked me, "What have you done to my son?" Apparently somehow encouraging him to wear black socks (which I only could have done by example) was worse than all the drinking he & I did together.
It might seem I am mentioning this to endorse a product, but that would somehow mean I was enough of a "celebrity" to "endorse" anything. I'm not. If Dickies thought to send me some socks, however, I would not be averse to such a delightful gift. Though I probably won't talk about socks again on Self Help Radio after this week's show. So Dickies would have very little to gain indeed.
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