You are not logged in.
#1 2022-03-04 11:27:02
- AFS
- Member
- Posts: 2740
Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
At £6 I bought a pair - just for the rather cool 60s packaging.
See what you think.
#2 2022-03-04 11:34:40
- Tomiskinky
- Member
- Posts: 3280
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
Ooo, tempted to buy for my design archive, wonderfully over packaged
Last edited by Tomiskinky (2022-03-04 11:34:58)
#3 2022-03-04 11:56:28
- Uncle Ian
- Member
- From: North London
- Posts: 224
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
And you get full instructions on how to put them on! You don't get that in Uniqlo....
#5 2022-03-05 08:29:28
- AFS
- Member
- Posts: 2740
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
The seller, who sounds rather nice (perhaps male, perhaps female, I can't tell) asked me if I'm a fan of 'Mad Men' or in advertising.
Over to you, Tom and Alvey.
#6 2022-03-07 07:41:58
- AFS
- Member
- Posts: 2740
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
These turned up in the post today, the packaging shrink-wrapped. I was planning on buying more but someone beat me to it.
#7 2022-03-07 08:56:21
- Kingston1an
- Member
- Posts: 4180
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
I cannot get excited about socks. John Snow or Dimbleby might wear flashy socks. The different toe and heel thing was a clever innovation though.
I did see a documentary about Leicester hosiery with that horrible Gregg Wallace and I was happy to see a UK manufacturer in back streets producing quality items. Almost tempted to buy some.
The only other socks I look at are Falke ski socks which I now wear in Winter at home. Very warm and they stay up. Marked L and R.
Lidl ski socks which are probably Falke are also sound.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#8 2022-03-07 09:00:19
- AFS
- Member
- Posts: 2740
Re: Futuro 60s socks on Ebay
These socks are from 1967. It was the packaging that was the draw: like an ad from a copy of 'Esquire'.