He noted, with supreme understatement, that novelty socks are “more often bad than good.” Millar said styles covered in oh-so-fun things like flamingos are just cringe. But there are loopholes.

IT’S TIME TO retire the novelty-sock tradition. Filling a stocking—which, after all, is plenty of sock on its own—is a prime opportunity to gift the kinds of extras that, while small in size ...

Or something that sags down your shin underneath a suit. Worse still: a “novelty sock.” For those unsure of where their sock journey begins, the safe bet is something in a mid-weight cotton ...