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I love a frivolously fancy sock. Cashmere blends for at-home in winter, full silk for black tie occasions, and calf-high performance socks when I’m wearing boots. But the undisputed champion of sock purchases is the Uniqlo Colorful 50. In black or navy, it can be a faux dress sock. In white it’s a workout sock. In any one of the 47 other colors, it’s as "fun" as a men’s sock should ever be. There’s nothing better.
– Luke Guillory, commerce editor
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You won't find better than Uniqlo's high-quality and durable Colorful 50 line. |
Look, no one is more guilty than this magazine when it comes to over-thinking socks. We've written guides on buying socks and guides on wearing socks. Both boil down to: Prioritize quality and avoid "fun" socks. Whenever a celebrity—or the otherwise rich, famous, and fashionable—sits down with us, we love to ask "How much is too much for a pair of socks?" Great one to break out as an icebreaker. The individual answers are really telling. Stanley Tucci has my favorite.
What I'd like to say is that day-to-day, it's not that complicated, assuming you're not rich, famous, or reckless with a credit card. You have a few pairs of dress socks you can spend on. I'd suggest Pantherella. You have one or two pair of tuxedo socks that, by the letter of the law, should be silk hosiery. I like Turnbull & Asser or, again, Pantherella. Maybe, you have a rotation of boot socks. But most of the time, it's the everyday sock. If you ask me, there is only one everyday sock champion. The one you want to wear 300 days out of the year. It's the Uniqlo Colorful 50 sock.
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Singing was the only thing that got me good attention. Anything else might be bad attention or no attention at all—which is horrible, because I’m a show dog.
Mama taught all of us kids how to sing. We didn’t have a radio in the car, so that’s the way we passed the time, learning to sing three-part harmony on the road to the rodeo.
I was always afraid if I didn’t use my gift, God would take it away from me and give it to somebody else.
I’m a female; I know you gotta work harder. There’s no need to bitch and gripe about it.
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In January 2008, the concert film U2 3D was the primetime Saturday-night debut during the Sundance Film Festival’s opening weekend. I was a newspaper reporter with USA Today at the time, and I’d arranged an hour-long sit-down with the band—which they abruptly canceled shortly before we were set to meet. Why? Well, Robert Redford had made them a better offer. The Sundance founder (and Sundance Kid) had invited them to his mountainside Sundance Mountain Resort to have a drink at his personal watering hole. I get it. I'd have canceled on them for that, too.
But the Sundance resort was more than an hour outside of Park City, Utah, where the premiere would be held that night. There was a window of downtime there, so I boldly proposed that hey, maybe instead of canceling the interview, we could just postpone it. I could meet them instead at the resort and we could have our conversation during their ride back to town. Unbelievably, they agreed.
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