The socks themselves aren't a problem. The problem is we have a system can't manufacture socks. And it can't manufacture tons of other items as well. *** Going back. my father-in-law ("Ole Joe") was a skilled machinist. When WWII arrived, he was working at a factory that made tank shells (for Army tanks). He had a draft deferment to do this. Joe ran an assembly line that had over 100 women on it. But his real job was to fix any machines that malfunctioned. And there were no extra parts. They were all diverted for the war effort. So Ole Joe had to make all the parts to fix the machines too. Screws, bolts, everything. Eventually Joe resigned from that job, and joined the U.S. Army Aircorps. B-17s. "Heavies" - And he swore till the day he died that he only did that because there was "Nobody to go drinking with back in Passaic, NJ" A different time. So, that is why manufacturing socks are important. How many other machines use those machine parts?