Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., April 18, 2022
2,000 years before our era, in Mesopotamia, the sock already existed, but it was in 1589 that the first sock knitter was invented, plunging this little piece of fabric into its industrial era.
Since then, they have never left our feet.
Except perhaps those of Albert Einstein, who had a phobia about it.
Al Capone owned over a hundred pairs of pristine white socks.
In France, Édouard Balladur never wears other pairs of socks than Italian reds, when the Academicians prefer them green.
Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach tells you the story of the socks."