Sock Affairs Van Gogh Sun Socks

Van Gogh Sun Socks

Another great collaboration with Philadelphia Museum of Art!

“While he waited for Paul Gauguin to join him in the Provençal city of Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh painted five audaciously decorative still lifes of sunflowers in simple earthenware jugs. At least two of these canvases decorated Gauguin’s bedroom when he reached the city late in October, and the French painter came to admire them greatly. Always defensive about the tragic outcome of his stay–it ended with Van Gogh’s self-mutilation and madness–Gauguin later claimed that the sunflower paintings directly reflected his own good advice, generously offered in Arles, that his Dutch friend avoid monotony by adding “bugle notes” of brilliant color to his paintings. Whether the Philadelphia Sunflowers precedes Gauguin’s visit or is one of two replicas Van Gogh painted the following year, it is an explosion of brilliant color and agitated outlines the twelve flowers as full of angular energy and as vital and vivid in personality as the artist who painted them.”

—Christopher Riopelle, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 207.

• 80% Combed Cotton, 17% Polyamide, 3% Elastane.
• We use seamless knitting to create a sock with no stitches.
• Wash inside out (40ºC/100ºF max). Do not tumble dry, iron, bleach or dry clean.

About Sock Affairs

Sock affairs has been five years in the making. In 2018, two guys left their cushy corporate jobs to follow a big idea: make fun socks for grown ups.

Three brands and 1 million socks later, we’ve developed a team of knitting experts, each assigned with the creative vision of a collection, according to their hobbies and passions.

Collectively, we focus on making high-quality socks that look good and feel even better. In this journey, we’ve created a community of tens of thousands that share our passion. People who know that when you put on a great pair of socks, it can make your whole day better.