What are diabetic socks?

What exactly are diabetic socks, what does that mean? How do they work, and do I really need them if I am a diabetic?


 As many of you may know one of the main symptoms of diabetes is poor blood circulation. To understand how diabetic socks help, first you have know why normal socks, may not be so good for you. One of the general staples of a normal sock is the elastic band on top, the band is there to hold the sock up and with out it, the sock will slip off. So how then can you get a diabetic socks with out the band and have it hold? Diabetic socks, may still have elastic on top but rather than a big thick elastic band on top, they may distribute the band to a longer portion of the socks, meaning you wont have 1 tight band but instead a series of looser elastic strands in order to not restrict the circulation an example of that can be found 100% cotton diabetic socks.

 Those are 100% cotton socks, but the sock is 100% cotton from toe to the upper rim of the socks, is it important to point out that elastic is needed in any sock in order for the sock to stay up, this is not a non elastic sock, this is a sock constructed with 100% cotton from toe to rim.


In reality this sock and any other socks that is labeled 100% cotton has between 3 -5% elastic on top needed to hold the sock in place. All socks have elastic up in the rim but they also contain 20-25% of nylon reinforcement through out the sock for durability.

100% Cotton socks

It has come to my attention by some of my customers that finding
100% cotton socks has become
harder and harder in the past 2 years. In this post I will answer the question
of why that has happened. In 2004 the U.S. government placed a quota on all
cotton goods coming to the united states, particularly from china, this was due
to the large number of sock mills that were closing in the united states the
socks mills were virtually gone, so the quota was thought to help the sinking
U.S. hosiery business. The problem with the quota was that companies like
Wal-Mart would meet the quota with in the first 3 months of the year and that
left other companies trying to find cotton from else where, such as Pakistan,
India, Malaysia, how ever those countries are not set up to take on the vast
demands of the trade, and the quality of products made there were very poor. As
a result many companies gave up on producing
100% cotton socks. It use to
be just labor intensified but now its hard to find the all cotton. Remember that
socks are knitted by machines now, and when you have 100% cotton strand being
woven the strands tend to break alot more due to the lack of elasticity because
there is no nylon in the fibers so as a result it is more labor intensified to
make100% cotton socks,
Fortunately I have a big following on my site for
100% cotton socks , so we have
continued to carry a large selection of them. We have dress and crew socks that
are all 100% cotton and nothing less. Hope you have gained a little insight on
the world of socks.

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