The most eye-catching fashion at Euro 2024? Socks with holes ripped in their backs, supposedly to ease the pressure on footballers’ calves. One-nil to science! Name: Holey socks. Age: They look much ...

So you've unpacked your winter clothes and are packing up your warm weather duds to hibernate until spring. But what about all the leftover clothes? Not the gently worn items that might fetch a couple ...

Times have changed since our grandmothers darned their holey socks to save a few bucks. Now, people are buying holey socks to save a few trees. Hole Socks, the invention of two New York-based ...

I wear jeans a lot, practically every day. When my jeans get a hole I patch them and wear them in the garden. But eventually they get too holey to wear even in the garden. What can I do with my old ...

If you’re sick of holey socks, toes that show through or heels without cushioning, we found what might be the last pair of socks you ever buy in your lifetime. Darn Tough Vermont makes tough socks — ...

Are you done with those tattered towels? That coffee-stained shirt? Your cast-offs are still too good for the trash! Audits performed recently at several Mass. disposal facilities revealed that over 5 ...

RAVE to my husband who insists on wearing socks with holes in them (“They’re perfectly good”), thus providing a source of amusement and a topic of conversation when we visit a shoe-free home. RANT to ...

Darn, did we get a pack o’ postcards, and letters and e-mails too. Eighty-nine in all, from folks inspired by our MaryJane Butters story (“The Leader of the Farmgirl Pack,” July 25), in which we dared ...