Pleated or flat front pants?

[Moosie74]

There may be some truth to the colored vs. white sock suggestion. I recently had a bad case of poison ivy and had a number of scratches and blisters and the doctor advised wearing white socks only because the colored dye could irritate the cuts and blisters.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Moosie74

There may be some truth to the colored vs. white sock suggestion. I recently had a bad case of poison ivy and had a number of scratches and blisters and the doctor advised wearing white socks only because the colored dye could irritate the cuts and blisters.

1) I don't think that's generally true today (but certainly different individuals will react to different substances)

2) "the president's son dying" is a myth.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

"The president's son dying" is a myth.

From Wikepedia:

On the afternoon on June 30, 1924, Calvin Coolidge, Jr. played a game of tennis with his brother John Coolidge. Because he wore tennis shoes without socks, Calvin Jr. developed a blister on his right foot, which progressed into blood poisoning and was the cause of his death on July 7, 1924, less than three months after his sixteenth birthday. His brother, John, described the loss of his brother as producing a depression in President Coolidge that lasted the rest of his life.

Colored socks had nothing to do with it. No socks caused the blisters that led to his death.

Moral of the story. If you're going to play tennis without socks, wait until antibiotics are invented.