Men's Patterned Dress Socks

Men's patterned dress socks, knit in Italy from Egyptian Mako cotton. Houndstooth socks in grey and in blue and black; chevron socks in grey and black and in blue and black. Pattern that registers up close and looks like texture from across a room.

Chevron dress socks

A directional zig-zag, sharper than houndstooth and more restrained than stripes, in grey and black and blue and black.

Houndstooth dress socks

A broken check that looks like a plain tone until you are close, in grey and blue and black.

How they are made and worn

Both patterns are worked into the knit rather than printed on it, so the figure holds its shape through washing and does not fade off the surface. The same 240-needle construction as the plain colours, with a reinforced heel and a flat hand-linked toe.

Pair on the dominant colour rather than the pattern. A navy and black chevron sits with navy trousers the way a plain navy sock would, and the pattern is a detail found later. Every pair here is over-the-calf, so nothing shows when you sit down.

The plain colours sit in the full range of men's dress socks and in mid-calf. Grey patterns also sit in the grey dress socks, and blue patterns in the navy dress socks.