Style goes knee-high with trendy tube socks.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 17, 2003 ;     550 words ......talking 1980s, wear `em high, Dr. J-style tube socks. Socks are huge for the fall, says Tina...are all coming back for the fall, and tube socks are a great way to complement the style...everyone was wearing them, she says. Tube socks were hard to find at first, Howard says...

TUBE GOOD TO BE TRUE

Dance Spirit;  July 1, 2008 ;     117 words ......s new sock line Did you love Lacey's tube socks on "SYTYCD"? Well, now you can buy a...DS: What do you love about dancing in tube socks? Lacey Schwimmer: I got into them because...became my signature look on "SYTYCD." Now tube socks are my second skin. DS: What inspired...

My Fiona; A little Apple a day keeps commitment away

The Washington Post;  February 12, 2006 ;     681 words ......culminate in a night involving "candle wax, tube socks and the new Fiona Apple CD." I turned...young, younger and youngest. I thought: tube socks? We're almost at the sickening toggle...student is saying that she likes to put on tube socks and athletic sneakers and then run round...

Live from the fashion battlefield

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  September 7, 2003 ;     369 words ......my annual fall wardrobe - a pair of jeans and a six-pack of tube socks. The world of low fashion can be so overwhelming. First of...full-service supermarket, allowing me to buy tube steaks as well as tube socks. Plus, Kmart contributes to the financial well being of Martha...

Not quite enough sock for a victory

The Boston Globe;  June 17, 1992 ;     321 words ...He was wearing red tube socks, simply adding to a long list of eccentricities he's accumulated...24 hours." Clemens could not say whether he'd be wearing the red tube socks again. Only that they felt comfortable. Short change Luis Rivera...

Cornering the Sock Market

The Washington Post;  March 23, 2003 ;     308 words ...On a blustery morning, a man is waving a package of tube socks at drivers speeding west along Florida Avenue NE. His...who acknowledges that most people are not looking for tube socks at the corner of Florida and New York avenues. That's...

Sock puppets give magic to rainy day

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  August 31, 2004 ;     651 words ......embroidery needles and those sad, mateless tube socks lolling forlornly around the laundry room. What for? Puppets, of course. The tube socks are perfect for making hand puppets...most of the day. Those same orphaned tube socks also may be used to make sock dolls...

Triumph of a sports dork.(personal appearance)(Buyers Guide)

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  January 31, 2006 ;     665 words ......might be a sports dork if: a) Striped tube socks overflow from his top drawer. b) Bjorn...basketball court to himself, short shorts, tube socks and a duffel straight out of 6th grade...green, $4 each, americanapparelstore.com _Tube socks, $10, americanapparelstore.com _Terry...

These Chili Peppers Prove Appetizingly Mild

The Washington Post;  July 21, 2002 ;     527 words ......fashionable to perform in nothing but strategically placed tube socks, kicks off with the same hyper-white-boy funk that the Red...the band may not be ready for suits and ties just yet, those tube socks are no doubt back where they belong: on feet. (To hear a free...

Fudafest: Smoke pot, dance naked

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  July 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......encourage it, friend, except you have that awful habit of wearing tube socks even when you are otherwise nude.Why? Has nobody told you...are over. Change the channel and take off those ridiculous tube socks. I'm rambling because I'm reluctant to get to the point, which...

Brocki helps Devils sock it to NC.(Sports)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 14, 2003 ;     485 words ......almost all of them. Running back Matt Brocki wears bright white tube socks with his uniform. And he pulls them up as far as they'll go...something. I'm not trying to be different. Too late. White tube socks aside, there are plenty of things that set Brocki apart from...

Parents taking son's body home: Tensions still high after police shot at...

Charleston Daily Mail;  February 15, 1999 ;     191 words ...NEW YORK - In life, Amadou Diallo was an unassuming street merchant who sold videotapes, tube socks and other items from a table in front of a Manhattan convenience store. But a week and a half after he was shot dead in a hail...

Women Gather Socks for Troops

Albuquerque Journal;  March 24, 2005 ;     101 words ......Auxiliary is seeking donations of socks and coupons to send to troops overseas. The women's group is collecting white and black tube socks as well as coupons that can be used in the commissaries overseas. The auxiliary already has sent out 11 boxes of socks, according...

Postcards From the Mall

The Washington Post;  June 30, 1991 ;     97 words ...Nothing identifies tourists quite like their clothes. Could it be the neon visors and matching tube socks? Those surfer shorts that dads wear only on vacation? Every morning, while the rest of Washington goes to work, the tourist set...

Unwanted donations searching for useful purpose.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......extra-large and extra-extra-large), 300 toothbrushes, 30 pairs of tube socks, a box of shampoo _ and a big problem. When the call went...charities. All turned her away. Vergote was near tears. I've got tube socks here where someone wrote `Big Rapids Loves You' on each sock...