Stripped Socks:
For the longest time I was so frustrated in my quest to acquire some stripped socks.  The ones available at unkind, expensive alternative clothing stores proved to be to expensive ($30) and all they had were striped stockings with stripes about 1 centimeter!  Phooey!  I want MEATY STRIPES!   Then, as often it happens, God stepped in and showed me the way to a garage sale where loe and behold, there was this woman's shirt with stripped sleeves.  I bought the shirt for $2 and cut it up, and wahla!.  Sure they weren't true socks, just stripped tubes.  Folks won't notice so long as you don't wear sandals (For Baby Jesus's Sake!  -simply not gothic -Cchhhea ;).  Also, the stripped tubes can be worn an awful lot and they won't gather wretched foot smells. 

To turn shirt sleeves into socks is easy.  If the shirt slevees are a non-stretchy type, you will need to cut and sew them so that their straight fabric isn't like baggy, stiff, leg warmers.   Cut off as much sleeve as you can get from the sacrificial shirt. Then, find out what the minimal circumference of sleeve hole can be to fit over the heel of you foot.   This will be the minimum circumference that the sholder end of the shirt sleve can be.  Then, measure the part of your leg where the calf is, this will be the maximum circumference that the tube sock can be.  Cut the shirt sleeve down its length, then match up either end with the measured lengths from your leg.   Draw a rough line between the two, cut, and sew (keeping in mind inside vs. out) and ta da! You've got socks that are stripped.
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