Thorlo socks are made specific to each sport, with special cushioning and ventilation in the right places for comfort and coolness, protecting your feet from the harshness of your sport!

Fat pads protect our feet but we destroy them by walking and running on hard surfaces

• This loss of fat pads is due primarily to damage from shearing forces from walking and running on smooth, unyielding man-made surfaces (concrete, asphalt, hard floors).
• The damage is compounded by poorly designed and poorly fitted socks and shoes.
• Thorlos protect the fat pads from shearing forces by transferring these forces from the fat pads to the cushion fabric of the Thorlos; and where fat pad degradation has already occurred, Thorlos' engineered cushion fabric helps replace the function of the natural pads.
• Protection is the "root cause" of comfort.

• Cotton, wool and silk (all natural fabrics) absorb moisture ["Absorption" is defined as retention]. Wool claims to "wick," which is not true.
• Inside the shoes, natural cushion sock fabrics become ineffective and even harmful to the feet: They absorb moisture, become saturated and collapse. Result: no protection.
• Acrylic "wicks" moisture ["Wicking" is defined as transmission or movement of moisture by capillary action], moving it to the outer materials of the shoe where it is released into the outside environment.
• Acrylic cushion sock fabric maintains resiliency and provides a more natural yielding, forgiving, dynamic environment for the foot (like walking barefoot in grass or sand).
• Result: More protection, more comfort.

• The irony is that it requires a man-made (or natural blended with acrylic) cushion fabric to create a more natural surface inside a shoe; but remember that shoes and boots themselves are man-made surfaces.
• Therefore, the only effective protective measure is to help counteract the negative aspects of one "man-made" surface with another "man-made" surface.
• Thorlos' exclusive acrylic cushion fabric is more "natural" inside a shoe.