Monday, November 24, 2008

How Popular Culture Came to Desire...Socks

Socks: you don't think of them as an artifact. Well, as a commodity, they have been constructed to be an artifact of popular culture.
We went from

to



and even


Socks have become more colorful and fashionable. They have become more desirable because they are more fashionable. They are no longer a necessity; they make a statement!

1 comment:

alycia cobb said...

i think you could expand this and include how socks were on the runway for fall/winter 08 lines such as prada and other high end designers.

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