Story and origins of socks..

The sock is a male costume accessory from the sixteenth century

We then called socks stockings-hose to put that cut feet above the bottom and ranged from ankle to knee. It was particularly between the silk stockings and boots. But there were those socks that stood next to the skin under the bottom, and when they had a sub-foot, were called stirrup socks or bracket .

sock as we knows it in the twenty-first century has emerged along with men's pants.
After 1789 the revolutionaries (sans-culottes), to distinguish themselves aristocrats they fought refuse to wear silk stockings and panties on the same time replace it by a pair of pants they accessorize with a short jacket (the campagnole) and socks.
It was under the Restoration in 1830 and to monitor the British fashion dandies conducted by Beau Brummell, the French adopt what would become the modern male dress today consists of a jacket and trousers then appointed stovepipe all worn with socks and shoes.

First knitted by hand wool or cotton, for farmers who practice this activity as additional income, stockings and socks will be produced later in the workshops with circular knitting machines many-headed succeeding trades flat knits will form tube. The profile of the bottom or the sock is given by heating the knitted tube inserted onto a form.
Towards the middle of the nineteenth century looms decreases (type Lebrun - presented at the Exposition Universelle of 1867), making two operations that are called draw and reporter can be the toe of a stocking or sock.

It is always knitted open and closed at its peak during the handling operation called remeshing. It is the quality of this operation depends on the fineness of the sewing rim and thus the comfort of the sock.

Three types of remeshing coexist :

- The remeshing the most common is called Rosso which is the name of is the inventor of this machine, regardless of the place mesh form a line of couture without finesse it suitable for regular quality products.
- The remeshing Toge Line always done at the machine but this time, the machine sews the stitches between the remeshing is thinner with the previous technique but the seam still form a rim.
- The remeshing hand with a return link by link, gives a very fine sewing barely perceptible touch and especially a great comfort for the user. This method is much more costly in labor is used in the best hosiery, including among others, that which produces the brand- Pier Juan .

- The product quality is measured not only in production techniques but also with the choice of raw materials. The importance the choice of son used is crucial. To manufacture high quality socks, such as those proposed by Pier Juan natural materials such as wool, cotton, silk, modal, ... are preferred.