You put them on with tailored trousers and they work. No second-guessing the colour or wondering if the pattern clashes.
Men's Black Dress Socks - Over the Calf
- Regular price
- $35.00
- Regular price
- Sale price
- $35.00
- Unit price
- per
Details & Care
Details & Care
- Solid
- 100% Mako Egyptian Cotton
- Mercerised
- Machine Wash Warm (30°C), Tumble Dry Low
- Made in Italy
Delivery & Returns
Delivery & Returns
Delivers in 3–5 business days.
Free delivery to the United States on orders over $135 USD, or $20 USD flat rate below that.
Free returns and exchanges. See our return policy.
Client Service
Client Service
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm MST
Closed weekends and statutory holidays
Reach us
1 800 595 0276
office@aklasu.co
Why these socks
A finer knit, carefully chosen fibres and Italian craftsmanship. You feel it when you cross your legs and the sock shows: as considered as the rest of what you're wearing.
Thin enough to sit comfortably inside a dress shoe, with hand-linked toes that lie flat against the foot.
Product Information
Overview
Black over-the-calf dress socks. The sock you own when the occasion won't forgive anything else. Black tie, weddings, formal business: this is the answer.
Made in Italy from 100% Mercerised Egyptian cotton on a 240-needle machine. The over-the-calf length stays up through a full day. A hand-linked toe sits flat against the foot, and the heel is reinforced.
For everyday wear, the Black Mid-Calf is the shorter version of the same sock. This over-the-calf pair is the formalwear answer, mid-calf is the weekday answer.
Every black pair, in both lengths and in pattern, sits in the black dress socks. The tuxedo socks gather the pairs for black tie and weddings. The rest of the length is in over-the-calf dress socks, and every colour in the full range of men's dress socks.
The sock pairing guide takes trouser, shoe, and sock together, and shows which colours sit between any pair.
The sock size guide covers which size and length to choose. The sock care guide covers washing, drying, and storing a pair.
The Make
Knit in Italy on machines that turn each pair slowly. The country where a dress sock is still treated as a garment, not a commodity.
Long-staple cotton from the Nile Delta, spun in Italy. The longer the fibre, the smoother the thread, and the longer the sock holds its softness.
The yarn is bathed in lye under tension, a process patented in the 1840s. It tightens the fibre, deepens the colour, and gives mercerized cotton its quiet sheen.
The number of needles on the cylinder that knits each sock. The higher the count, the finer the gauge, and the closer it feels to a piece of fabric than to a piece of hosiery.
Knit to the weight a proper dress shoe wants. Slim enough that the foot still feels the leather, sturdy enough to last a day in it.
The two places a sock wears out first, knit with twice the yarn and tighter tension. The reason a pair lasts seasons rather than weeks.
The toe seam is closed by hand on a linking machine, stitch by stitch. No ridge under the toe, no rub against the inside of a shoe.
A simple paper sleeve. Slips off, and the socks are ready to wear.
