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aaa ooo aaa ooo aaa ooo aaa ooo aaa ooo aaa oooFeb 10 '01 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line Maybe your most intimate companion presents the a and o of making the right appearance. Read all about how to be your best without joining the army. Choosing the right socks is the a and o of making the right appearance, a and o - alpha and omega which is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. If show up in a tuxedo and wear non-matching socks or shoes with holes, you only wasted money on the rental tux.. If visual appearance is not enough of a reason to be careful with the choice of your socks, then consider the fact that there are very few types of cloth that will engulf a body part as close and tight as a sock does. You will not want to make a bad choice with such an intimate companion, or? Considering the choice of socks I will evaluate - Style - Material - Color - Where to purchase - DEALS! and finish with a look forward to another exciting, hot topic. Style The choice of style depends on the environment you are going to wear your new socks. In Middle Europe (I speak of Germany, Netherlands, France, Austria and such) those white tennis socks are not tolerated unless you are a doctor or actually on the tennis court. I learnt that the hard way, when a woman broke up with me and told me: "And by the way, Peter, besides your other [...] flaws, those white tennis socks are so out, you should really do something about them" What could I do? I had dozens of white tennis socks. Throw them all away? I was cheap, so I decided to immigrate to California where my white tennis socks do not pose a problem, even CEOs wear them in business meetings. Another questionable thing is the frivolous display of symbols like NBA or WWF as if that would add value to your personality. Why would anyone run free advertising? Finally, both a matter of style and material is not to buy them too tight to ensure proper blood flow. Of course you could cut them at the top but.. Material I personally prefer natural products. 100% cotton, not combed. If chosen in the right color, it does not stamp me out as an ecologist or such thing. Color As said in the introductory paragraph, people do notice shoes and socks, even though they are so far away from your face. That is why I recommend wearing neutral colors that blend with the shoe (if you wear shoes at all - programmers don't) and pants (if you wear pants, I do). Too colorful socks will draw other persons' attention away from your face to your feet. While you might enjoy them looking down while facing you, it is not a good base for negotiations, dates or anything, for that matter. Your partners will remember your feet, not your pretty face, business plan, great chain of arguments. Side note: If you are ugly, have no business plan and no ideas, well, maybe loud socks will help you confuse them. Where to purchase. DEALS! In today's hot market, you can purchase socks in many locations. Be it the drugstore, the local KMart or when you feel like burning some money, on Rodeo Drive in LA. Last year, in 4/2000, I heard in a TV report about B2C internet companies closing down. B2C means business to consumer as opposed to B2B. In the report they brought www.gazelle.com as an example for a failing B2C site. In German, the word Gazelle (which is a deer like African animal) is used in reference to pretty woman's legs or to the capability of running fast. It appears that not many American consumers could follow the reference and understand that gazelle.com was selling woman's stockings. If you go to gazelle.com now, there's a different site. But a search on "gazelle stockings" should reveal the old story. My conclusion is that the internet is not a suitable medium for buying such an intimate companion as socks and stockings. DEALS! Well, here's a tip. I faced the problem of single socks in my dryer. When I opened the dryer's door, I would find each a single brown, red and grey sock. How could I ever wear them again? This dryer is a sock-eater it seems. To make things worse, in my bookshelf, I have just another such triple of single socks. But there is a solution!!! On my yearly visit to the mall in Capitola I saw a guy selling socks in bags of three! Now isn't that handy? An emergency sock! Three socks of same color, same size for the price of only two pairs. You can loose one in the dryer and one on the bookshelf, and can combine them wildly with the 3rd one. There's more than sox in the world.. The limitations of our busy life and the nature of this web site which doesn't allow to add pictures of vital information to this so important topic of our time force me to close on the topic of socks (newspeak: sox) now. Too bad, socks do not always get the attention that they deserve. Once when I came home with my brand-new socks, my lady would not notice them! So I stripped off everything but the socks and walked in again. Yes, now she finally looked at me. At my.. well, not at my socks. I answered her disappointed glance with the words "He looks at my new socks!" and she replied: "Why didn't you get yourself a new hat then". Which brings me to another world-moving issue, the right hair-do and, if in lack of material, the right hat.  |
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