Our two house brands, DreaM Stockings and Dreamer Socks are made for us right here in the States, out of recycled and regenerated fibers. They’ve got some beautiful basics,

• O Woolies •
• Extraordinary Thigh Highs •
• OTK Tubes •

And of course, pretty patterns.

•Jacquard Flowering Vine OTK •
• Fast Lane OTK •
• Bamboo OTK •

But far more than our fabulous house brands are made in the USA. Why, did you know that from B.Ella we offer over forty USA-made styles? Only about a third of their styles we carry are made in Italy and the rest of these gorgeous, luxury offerings are home-grown.

• Adie Pima Cotton Ghost Footies •
• Nicolo Rugby Stripe Midcalf •
• Liza Polka Dot Knee Socks •

And ALL of the Gumball Poodle styles are made in the USA. Stretchy and sassy, we even offer two styles that name-check the Pacific Northwest and one that honours our local Roller Derby team!

• Seattle Knee Highs •
• Portland Knee Highs •
• I Love RCR Knee Highs •

Speaking of local, Una arm warmers are made up in Seattle, Washington—and Polonova styles are made right here in Portland, Oregon!

• Geoweb Arm Cozies •
• Polonova Floral Lace Trouser Socks •
• Polonova Longer Velvet Wrist Warmers •

There are so many more made in the USA offerings! Just join me after the jump for a quick list (and links and Advanced Searches for) of USA-made styles.

Here’s a quick reference list of the brands we currently carry who make their products in the USA. I’ve given each one a little line of description and the brand name links to an Advanced Search set up to show you just the styles made in the USA by that brand.

Remember, not all the styles offered by some of these brands are made in the USA. To make sure you’re looking at American-made styles, choose “Made in the USA” from the Category search options.

Ashi Dashi: Playful patterns from food to faux bois.

B.ella: Italian luxury, specialising in wool.

Dahlgren: Probably the most comfortable sock you’ll try, they’re the ultimate in sport socks.

Dream Stockings: One of our wonderful house brands!

Dreamer Socks: Another of our fabulous house brands!

EG Smith: Cozy cottons and the maker of the classic boot sock.

Element Emporium: Anatomically accurate bones and muscles screen printed onto cozy tube socks.

Gumball Poodle: Let your socks do the talking with these wonderfully wordy styles.

Hosiery Mate: Specially designed detergent to keep your dainties lasting longer.

It Stays!: Sock glue!

Look From London: Cozy leggings.

Love Lite Precision Tie Dye: Our house brand styles hand-tie dyed just for us!

Nouvella: Simple and sporty basics, with some space dye thrown in.

Polonova: Hand-silk screened patterns in luxe colourways.

QT Feet: Fantastic fairisle styles in recycled cotton.

Rago: Gorgeous garter belts.

Raygun Robyn: Exclusive tentacle patterned socks!

RocknSocks: Fun stripes in OTK and crew.

Snappy Garters: Lovingly hand-made sock garters.

Sock Dreams: You’ll find our exclusive garter styles here, along with our Dreamer-made t-shirts!

Sweet Marcel: Pretty patterned knee highs.

Texture Clothing: High quality hand warmers made in small batches.

Therafirm: Preggers maternity support tights.

Una: Hand crafted arm cozies in organic cotton and alternative fibers.

How are you rocking International Day of The Sock? Hey internationals, are you rocking USA-made styles today?

• Snappy Spike Garters •
• Snappy Heart Garters •
• Pom-Pom Garters •

Unlike the other sock garters we carry, that fasten with buttons or hooks, the Snappy Garters attach with two snaps to keep them secure around your leg, with a little extra stretch if you need it.  Except for the below the knee designed Snappy Monkey Sock Garters, all styles fit legs 19-22 inches, which makes them great for below and above the knee.

Another old favourite (possibly premiering around Portland Pride 2007) are the Snappy D-Ring Garters! Originally plain black elastic with nickel rings, we’ve just introduced a fancier version with brass hardware, that even comes on a gorgeous maroon!

More Snappy Garter gorgeousness after the jump!

I know one of my favourites are the Snappy Big Button Garters. Oversize decorative buttons adorn them and they’re terribly whimsical, perfect for adding a little playfulness to any outfit and perfect for dolly dress up. They come in nine varieties, but here’s a taste of all the colour!

But what about days that you want the fun of Snappy Garters, but with simpler decoration?  We’ve even got a couple of styles with printed elastic.  First are the brilliant Snappy Rainbow Garters that wrap your legs in a joyful spectrum.  We brought these in for Portland Pride 2012 and we love them!  There are also the Snappy Monkey Sock Garters that have sweet little monkey silhouettes and are the little sister of all the other Snappy Garters, fitting 12 inches to 16 inches around.  They’re designed for just below the knee, though smaller legs can wear them just above.

• Snappy Rainbow Garters •
• Snappy Monkey Sock Garters •

The newest styles (that we’ve just added today!) are equally understated.  Simple metal charms on black elastic make the Snappy Dragonfly Garters and the Snappy Fleur de Lis Garters delicately beautiful addition to your accessories.

We love Snappy Garters and the past eight years of fun ways to rock keeping your socks up have flown by!  Have you tried Snappy Garters?  Were you rocking a pair back when we first started carrying them?

The deadline is June 30 (but we’ll happily receive & possibly reward late entries too if they are really memorable… other rules? keep it clean and fun, quality counts. Individual images welcome, group shots, Bride & Groom, Bride & Bride, Groom & Groom… hopefully with some gorgeous dresses, slick suits, floral arrangements, wedding cake… the more it says “WEDDING!!!” in an image the better. How many images we pick and award really depends on how many great shots we receive. You can post them on our facebook page or send them to us via our contact page, or direct at info@ sock dreams .com

Happy shooting and good luck!!!

For more information on the Filmed By Bike Film Festival go here.

…There are a bunch of Sock it to Me socks featured, with the Striped Bolt knee highs in the starring role. The Gumball Poodle Geek socks costar. Here’s a blog post on the filming of this spot from the Rose City Roller girl… Shaolin Spocker who is prominently featured wearing the above mentioned Bolt socks.

It turns out that though ‘Super Loose’ is a direct translation of the Japanese word for this style of sock, a more accurate translation is ‘Scrunchy.’ And it definitely seems more accurate! One of the things we love about this style is that you can just scrunch them down.

Is there a difference between ‘scrunching’ and ‘slouching’? Not really, though how we often tend to use the words is that ‘scrunch’ is actively pushing your socks down and ‘slouch’ is when a sock more naturally crumples a little lower.  The effect is the same either way, soft folds above your ankles (or tops of your boots!).

The EG Smith Ribbed Bootsocks on the left need to be scrunched down, but the Bess Cashmere Slouch Rib Knee Socks on the right slouch on their own in the most delightful way!

In our Scrunchy Socks collection you’ll find two distinct schools of the scrunchy sock, ‘schoolgirl socks’ and ‘slouch socks.’ What’s the difference? Find out after the jump!

The schoolgirl sock look comes to us from Japan and, though it’s missing a lot of citations, Wikipedia’s entry on Loose Socks has the basic info.  Around the 1990s it became popular for Japanese girls to pair long and loose socks with their uniform skirts, using sock glue to keep them up.  Like a lot of fads, styles started to get extreme, with longer and longer socks, even up to two meters long (which is almost 80 inches!).  We’ve got that two meters beat with our 100 Inch Super Ruched socks.

The look seeped into media and the silhouette of big, slouchy socks with a skirt is iconic even today. Our Harajuku Style Pinterest board has this great picture of schoolgirl socks that was found at Tokyo Fashion, which has even more pictures of loose socks in action!

Image by Tokyo Fashion

Hmm, those socks look familiar! They could be the Harajuku Scrunchy Socks, or one of the longer versions, the Schoolgirl Long Socks or the Schoolgirl Extra Long socks!

But you don’t have to go as far as Japan to get good long socks and they don’t have to be white!  Our Dream Stockings line has two great long and scrunchy sock options for you, the 40 inch Long Cuffable Scrunchables:

From left to right: Charcoal, Lilac, White

And the 50 inch Super Ms!

From left to right: Dark Red, Grey, Dusty Plum

Sock Dreams has offered loose socks since almost the beginning and we’ve pretty much always carried slouch socks.  Just like the schoolgirl loose sock look, they showed up in the 1990s, plain ol’ bootsocks rising into the fashion sphere.  EG Smith was THE name for bootsocks, with a 99% cotton sock and almost no elastic, super slouchy and with the perfect scrunch, “Love Eric” printed on the foot.  If you remember the kind of socks Brenda wore on 90210, then you know exactly what kind of style I’m talking about.

Sadly, the machines that produced the socks wore down in about 2009, having made socks since the Civil War. But about a year later EG Smith introduced the Ribbed Bootsock, with a similar look, but more scrunch than slouch (they’re only 94% cotton).  We love them even more than the original!

From left to right: Natural, Denim, White

Our Dream Stockings and Dreamer Socks lines have similar styles, so there are even more colours and slouch sock styles to choose from!  Our Cotton Slouch Socks are a customer and Dreamer favourite, with the most colours of any line we produce.

From left to right: Bubblegum, Dusty Plum, Light Blue

The Acrylic Slouch Socks come in shocking bright colours, they’re so vibrant, like crayons!

From left to right: Hunter Green, Yellow, Purple

And there are more delicious, scrunchy socks just waiting for you to browse in our Scrunchy Socks collection!  Are scrunchy socks your thing and if so, do you go schoolgirl or slouch?

This summer we had some socks made especially for us by Gumball Poodle, to show off how much we love the Rose City Rollers.  You may have seen them for sale at a couple derby events, but now even folks who live far away and still call Portland home can show off their pride for their derby home team with I ♥ RCR knee highs!

The images for these socks were shot for us by the lovely Taylor B photography, who not only took some snaps of the I ♥ RCR knee highs, but got some fun shots of other derby favourite styles.

from left to right
• Extraordinary Striped Thigh Highs •
• Top Striped OTK Tubes •
• Dreamy Knee High Tube Sock •

from left to right
• Extraordinary Striped Thigh Highs •
• Dreamer Harlequin Diamond OTKs •
• Extraordinarily Longer Striped Thigh Highs •

There are lots more great derby options, no matter what team you’re on.  Drop us a line if you’re having trouble finding your colours or want help finding just the right socks to rock (refs, we have a lot of great black and white vertical stripes, like these!).

Thank you again, Taylor B photography and goooooooo RCR!

‘Cause who doesn’t want some Wicked Whiskey this time of year?

• Wicked Knee Highs •
•Whiskey Knee Highs •

And I so want to see what a Zombie Heavy Metal Derby involves!

• Zombie Knee Highs •
• Heavy Metal Knee Highs •
• Derby Knee Highs •

A couple more after the jump!

“Evil Nerd” must mean that there’s a mad scientist in this box!

• Evil Knee Highs •
• Nerd Knee Highs •

And, saving the best for last, this one cracks us up pretty regularly.  So, is a “Ninja Mazel Tov Bitch” a deadly, celebrating lady or is this something you say in an action-film scenario?

• Ninja Knee Highs •
• Mazel Tov Knee Highs •
• Bitch Knee Highs •

What are some of your favourite Gumball Poodle phrases? Do you rock mis-matching socks so you can tell folks that you’re a Derby Queen?

My personal favorite from this latest batch of Halloween goodies are the Candy Corn socks…
Based on our classic “striped knees” DreaM Stockings
*made exclusively for us in the USA using recycled cotton*

this version won’t be around long so if you love the bright colors grab a pair while you can.
…but worry not, we’re getting a darker version soon that should last us all the way til winter creeps in.

And when winter does creep in, me and my dogs are going to stay nice and cozy no matter what our crazy Portland weather throws at us!

Of course, I’ve got to tease a little.

It’s been five years since these DreaM Stockings debuted,

and a little over three since they were available in an OTK and a thigh high.

But it’s been almost two years since we’ve had them in stock.  The yarn for these socks was discontinued and we’ve been on a hunt for a replacement ever since.

But a secret stash of the yarn has been found—enough to make a limited run of both OTK and thigh highs.  We won’t have them forever and we’re still looking for a long-term supply of this yarn, but for a short time, this sock dream has come true.

Have you guessed what they are? Join us after the jump for the answer!

Yes! The Super Dreamy and O Dreamy socks are back! They’re only available in Hibiscus and Autumn, but the slubby, soft, beautiful marled socks are back for a limited time.

So if you loved the Super Dreamy socks, now is the time to get a pair!

And if the O Dreamy Stockings were something you always wanted but never got a pair of, grab some while you can!

Did you get a pair of these dreamy socks the first time around?

• America Printed Trouser Socks •
• American Flag Midcalves •
• Old Glory Printed Trouser Socks •

There is also a brand new arm warmer style that would be a great layer when it gets chillier at night watching fireworks, the Patriotic Arm Warmer.

Of course, you can be patriotic more subtly, by wearing something made in the USA.  Some of our favourite American-made styles after the jump!

Our DreaM Stockings styles are all made in the USA just for us and come in fun stripes, cool slinky rayon, little anklets and much more!

• Dreamy Knees •
• A Chevrons •
• O Rayons •

Of course, our Dreamer Socks are also made in the USA, and their super stretch means they fit more feet and legs!

• Dream Stalker Stripes •
• Acrylic Slouch Socks •
• Vertically Checkered OTKs •

The newly-returned Ashi Dashi are made in the USA right down to the ink on their labels!  And socks like these are perfect for a summer barbecue:

• Ashi Dashi Meat Midcalf •
• Ashi Dashi Corn Crew •
• Ashi Dashi Strawberry Crew •

And there are so many more, because here at Sock Dreams, we believe in supporting local business and most of our suppliers make their styles in the USA.  There’s a bunch, but I think I got them all!  Each link leads to their category, where you can see all the styles each supplier offers.

Ashi Dashi

B.Ella

Dahlgren

Dream Stockings

Dreamer Socks

E.G. Smith

Nouvella

Polonova

QT Feet

Rago

Rock Socks

RockNSocks

Shelleopard

Sock Dreams

Whew! That’s a lot of made in the USA!  But we’re dedicated to it. And, of course, we offer free first class shipping in the United States, you can’t get much more patriotic than that.