Gym Socks

One that keeps your feet dry and cushioned, and stays up through the session. Cotton soaks up sweat and holds it against your skin, and a straight-tube heel slides under your foot mid-set. Ours use a fibre that moves sweat off the skin and a heel knitted to the shape of your foot. Every pair also has soft cushioning, arch support, mesh ventilation, a seamless toe and a reinforced heel and toe.

Both work. Crew and Mid-Crew give you more sock for lifting and longer runs. Quarter and Ankle Tab sit lower, for classes and a hot gym. Fibre, cushioning and sizes are the same across all four.

Yes. Crew sits below the calf under trousers or in boots. Train in the same pair after work. Mid-Crew and Quarter sit clean under chinos and trainers. Ankle Tab is a training and weekend sock.

Wear a sock that moves sweat away from the skin. Thicker does not mean drier, because a thick cotton sock holds more sweat than a thin one. COOLMAX moves sweat off your skin and dries faster than cotton, bamboo and wool, and silver yarn in the footbed handles the smell. If your feet sweat more than most, our moisture wicking socks are the same fibre in every cut.

Sweat has no smell of its own. The smell comes from bacteria feeding on it in a warm shoe. The silver yarn in our footbed stops them building up. Wash the socks inside out on cold and line dry. A pair of shoe deodorisers in the trainers overnight sorts the shoes.

Only for floor work. Grip socks have rubber dots on the sole for reformer Pilates, barre and yoga. We don't make them (yet). In trainers the job is staying put inside the shoe. The 90 degree heel and the cuff do that.