Indeed, they do after a longer run but in this blogtext I criticize the quality of socks. It sucks. Today, it is hard to find any decent and lasting socks in any shop - no matter whether you purchase them from the Highstreet store or from H&M, their quality is crap. Yiwu is a small 1.2 million people city in China. This small Chinese city is known as The Capital of Socks. Factories in the city produce over three billion pairs of socks annually - and I claim because of the quality of the socks is so poor that we have to throw them to the waste after wearin them couple of times. What a waste in these times of sustainability. Today's socks are not made of thread anymore. Or they are, but a thin thread is sowed in a way that they keep the thin layer of cotton wool between them. Just long enough to keep them in shape for a short time. After couple of washes you realise they have worn out and have holes everywhere. Women's pantyhose / sockings syndrome is more than a fact...