No Socks Day 2023
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In reality I think going barefoot is much more healthy than wearing shoes all the time.
I have noticed that now my feet are very tender and cannot tolerate even walking on finished pavement whereas I used to run wild without shoes and socks over pavement, gravel, all kinds of surfaces in those bygone younger days.
Just call me wussyfoot in my old age.
Today is No Socks Day. Of course "no socks" can be with or without shoes. It is said to be an international observance held each May 8 annually.
It seems that the sock of today originates sometime after 1589 when the knitting machine was invented by one William Lee allowing the mass production of socks as it were.
Depending on your station in life you either wore wool socks or fine colorful silk ones. Given the unevolved hygiene of those early times I have a feeling that stinkfoot may have prevaled across the land.
A pair named Ruth and Thomas Roy created No Socks Day to allow the world an opportunity to go barefoot and enjoy that "next to the earth" feeling it allows.
So regardless of whether you wear socks or not, with or withouse shoes — Happy No Socks Day to you !