What's the best material to buy for socks?

The common components of socks are mainly cotton, linen, silk, wool, polyester, polyamide and bamboo fiber, modal and other regenerative cellulose fibers, which is only a rough classification of raw materials, specific to each raw material, there are many can be subdivided into places.

For example, cotton has long-staple cotton and fine-staple cotton, coarse-staple cotton, the optimal when the long-staple cotton, long-staple cotton can also be divided into the West Indian Sea Island cotton, Suwen cotton, Egyptian cotton, Pima cotton, Xinjiang long-staple cotton and so on. Even the same Xinjiang long-staple cotton, different counts of cotton yarn is also a big difference. According to the processing of cotton dry grade can be divided into combed cotton and combed cotton, and even the poor quality of recycled cotton. Another example is polyester, a chemical fiber commonly used in socks, there are very low-cost, moisture conductivity and other aspects of the performance is very poor, there are also modified, such as DuPont’s development of CoolMax is a high-quality polyester fiber.

Different materials have different characteristics, there is no absolute superiority or inferiority.

Daily wear: from the comfort, economic and practical aspects of the comprehensive consideration of the proposal to buy cotton-based components of the socks.Cotton socks with a cotton content of 75% or more can be called “cotton socks”, and cotton socks with a cotton content of 85% or more belong to the category of high-grade cotton socks.

cotton is characterized by moisture absorption and breathable, comfortable feet. But although the cotton sweat, moisture conductivity is very poor, but also not sweat, sweaty, easy to stick feet; in addition to low strength, not wear-resistant, easy to loose deformation, with the cotton yarn poorly woven and thin and loose, if not worn a few times may be exposed to the toes.

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 Sports wear: recommended to modified polyester, nylon and other high-quality chemical fiber, which is also known as the main material of the technology fiber, the latter compared to cotton has the advantage of high fastness, strong wear-resistant shape retention is good, good moisture conduction is easy to perspiration that is able to dry quickly, dyeing fastness, etc. Good color fastness.

However, ordinary chemical fiber blended socks, especially if the raw materials used are very poor, there is a major common problem is easy to ball and poor breathability easy to stink feet, which is also a lot of people are very concerned about the pain point. The kind of 10 RMB 3 pairs of cheap socks are generally inferior chemical fiber blend socks, commonly known as polyester-cotton socks, the composition is mainly very cheap, poor performance polyester.

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Outdoor wear, need to keep your feet dry for a long time at the same time budget is sufficient then it is recommended to choose wool socks especially merino wool socks, sweat a lot of the same applies.

Wool because of its unique fiber structure, moisture absorption, moisture conductivity are very good, taking into account the warmth of wool, you can choose a short, thin summer models.

When choosing socks, it is important to consider the occasion and your personal needs. Daily wear recommended cotton socks, moisture absorption and breathable and comfortable; sports are appropriate to choose modified polyester and other technology fiber socks, wear-resistant and quick-drying; outdoor activities, wool socks, especially merino wool socks is a good choice, warm and moisture absorption. In short, there is no absolute advantage or disadvantage, just fit.