Sock-twist... (& sometimes trouser-legs too)

[smcapstick]

I have only had this issue when being a full-on tight-ass and worn really old socks with knackered elastic.

Reasonably fresh socks, worn on their own, are always fine.

I never get cold feet. I used to make the mistake of wearing more than one pair or some thick examples when it was cold. Big mistake! My feet stay warmer when they have room to breathe in my chosen footwear (Redback safety boots or Le Chameau Chasseurnord wellies). Just one pair of ordinary M&S dress socks required.

 

[davieh3350]

Not quite sock twist, but I'm having hellish bother with insole lift, with the new wellies, every time the feet come out of the wellies so do the insoles, dry crisp socks, or sweaty damp socks makes no difference. I need to put them back in place each time.
Most frustrating. Anyone else have this trouble?

 

[Paddington]

Just chucked away my fleecey insoles this morning after they started doing this and coming out creased so will not go in flat again.
When I say fleecey insoles, I mean feet shaped bits of carpet that came with a second hand dog crate we picked up for free. Of course they weren't foot shaped when the dog was using them and they do have a faint whiff of wet hound about them, but they were free, must find that carpet and cut some more out.

 

[Old Boar]

@davieh3350 - a bit of well chewed chewing gum placed in the boot and then the insole put in carefully and then a quick stroll around the yard will ensure that the insole will never be able to move from the wellie. An added plus is that your wellie will smell slighly of mint for a while!
Nip into a carpet shop @Paddington and ask for some free samples. This way you can choose the colour, bounce, wool content and built in underlay for your new insoles. One sample is easily enough for size 12 boots!

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

@davieh3350 - a bit of well chewed chewing gum placed in the boot and then the insole put in carefully and then a quick stroll around the yard will ensure that the insole will never be able to move from the wellie. An added plus is that your wellie will smell slighly of mint for a while!
Nip into a carpet shop @Paddington and ask for some free samples. This way you can choose the colour, bounce, wool content and built in underlay for your new insoles. One sample is easily enough for size 12 boots!

This sounds like a readers letter out of 'Viz' . [emoji3]

 

[unlacedgecko]

And if you've not taken your wellies off in public you've not lived, especially if you do so as a sock tucker-in'er. You'll amaze the local population with all of the exciting day to day farming items that will emerge unexpectedly and there's the added bonus that occasionally you'll catch things like your knife before they land in the crap that you're standing in

Last winter I lived in waterproof leggings and wellies. I used to pick my son up from nursery every night. Being considerate I'd take off my gear in the lobby, so as not to traipse sheep shite and mud through the building.

The first time I did it the new managers face was a picture. She didn't recognise and she saw me out the corner of her eye. She thought I was some pervert flasher dropping my pants in public!

 

[davieh3350]

@davieh3350 - a bit of well chewed chewing gum placed in the boot and then the insole put in carefully and then a quick stroll around the yard will ensure that the insole will never be able to move from the wellie. An added plus is that your wellie will smell slighly of mint for a while!
Nip into a carpet shop @Paddington and ask for some free samples. This way you can choose the colour, bounce, wool content and built in underlay for your new insoles. One sample is easily enough for size 12 boots!

Now that is a great idea!

It seems to be a vacuum that's causing it. At first I'd thought about a vent hole on the toe of the boot, but then I remembered why I bought a new pair Then I thought I could run vent pipe inside the boots, similar to that of a cars fuel tank, but thought that would be too uncomfortable, then I had a brainwave of connecting the vent through the toe and p clipping up to the top so it didn't let in water.
The chewing gum sounds like a bloody good idea though, simple and effective.

 

[Paddington]

@davieh3350 - a bit of well chewed chewing gum placed in the boot and then the insole put in carefully and then a quick stroll around the yard will ensure that the insole will never be able to move from the wellie. An added plus is that your wellie will smell slighly of mint for a while!
Nip into a carpet shop @Paddington and ask for some free samples. This way you can choose the colour, bounce, wool content and built in underlay for your new insoles. One sample is easily enough for size 12 boots!

To rephrase Lonnie Donegan "Does your chewing gum lose its flavour in your wellies overnight ?"

 

[Philip Watkins]

Due to the nature of the job requiring dozens of welly changes every day, I'm a firm believer of tucking trousers into socks.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

My socks are like that . [emoji4]

 

[llamedos]

My socks are like that . [emoji4]

So are mine today, and required a second pair with holes in a different place to cover the first.

 

[JWL]

The one drawback with tucking your trousers in your socks is that when you're wearing the "better" pair of socks, the "going out" in pair that you have on say on a Sunday and you just nip out into the yard and when you've tucked those trousers in you stretch the sock tops so they don't stay up the next time you wear them for best. They now creep down into the toes of your dealer boots making you walk out like an expensive hairdresser

As old age approaches ever nearer my doctor has made me wear "support below the knee socks", very fetching in a slightly perverse sort of way but no matter what socks I wear they all slide down the lycra mix and I'm constantly retrieving socks. I rarely wear wellingtons, mainly Dickies taller workboots with the zip on the side so I don't have to faff with laces all the time and end up pulling the socks up and putting them over the tops of the boots but they still keep slipping away

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

I think I may have shares in JCB . [emoji87]

 

[llamedos]

Is this your attempt at 50 shades of grey Andrew.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Is about as near as I'm going to get .

 

[caveman]

Does this affect you?

I have a right-foot only problem with this; regardless of what type of sock I have on, when I wear wellies the right sock will twist at the foot so that the part that should be under my sole is on top and vice versa. Irritating.

Amusingly, I sometimes suffer from left-trouser leg syndrome twisting too; even if I try and compensate for this by twisting it more the other way, it still twists right back around.

You'd think that in the 21st Century we could overcome these trying problems...

Which lodge do you frequent?

 

[RushesToo]

For me:
Twisted socks: usually a torn inside lining on the boot and/or a slightly off straight walk
Boot suction - talcum powder cures it if they stay dry.

 

[caveman]

Bought a dozen pairs of cheap "Hike" socks off a local tyre man who dabbles in other crap on the side.... bankrupt stock etc..... about ten years ago.
They are the most uncomfortable socks going.
Hardly any shape.
Seams in all the wrong places.
Never know if they are on forwards or backwards.
Trouble is....... the darned things won't wear out!

 

[neilo]

Nip into a carpet shop @Paddington and ask for some free samples. This way you can choose the colour, bounce, wool content and built in underlay for your new insoles. One sample is easily enough for size 12 boots!

Of course, he could always cut a couple of foot shaped pieces from under the sofa. Never get your money's worth from that bit of carpet anyway.

 

[Hilly]

Bought a dozen pairs of cheap "Hike" socks off a local tyre man who dabbles in other crap on the side.... bankrupt stock etc..... about ten years ago.
They are the most uncomfortable socks going.
Hardly any shape.
Seams in all the wrong places.
Never know if they are on forwards or backwards.
Trouble is....... the darned things won't wear out!

Well thhey made me laugh.