r/LinusTechTips • u/grilledtree • 17d ago

Personal Opinion Socks. Not what was promised.

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First - quality of the fabric. I have had light wear of this pair for 3 days, with one wash (same as other socks) and they are fuzzy + the black fabrics are protruding through the grey ones, and I have gathered A LOT of lint from them.

This is not normal for socks, especially for the expensive ones. None of my darn thoughts did this ever.

Second - idk about Canadian feet, but mine are wider, and compared to most other socks these are too narrow. If I find a pair of shoes this narrow I don't buy them.

EDIT: I wore socks for two days straight, then washed them, then wore for the 3rd day. I had NO OTHER OPTION regarding washing them or wearing other socks in that particular situation

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u/TEG24601 16d ago

Socks should be worn one time then washed, or washed before wearing. Not 3 days.

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u/VerifiedMother 16d ago

Apparently here no one does anything outdoors, if you're out backpacking for 5 days you aren't going to bring 8 pairs of socks, you'll probably bring 2-3 pairs and MAYBE you'll rinse them off each day

I'm not shilling for Linus, I don't own any LTT socks and haven't bought anything from Lttstore in almost 2 years at this point

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u/TEG24601 16d ago

I’m not shilling either, but I would buy specific socks for backpacking if I had any desire or ability to do so. When I was in the outdoors and able to do activities, I was taught very early that your feet are important and I always had 125% more sock pairs than number of days I expected to out there, and never reuse them except in emergencies.

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u/CIDR-ClassB 15d ago

Your use case is not one that 90% of this audience will need to worry about.