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The Indispensible Hosiery in Our Daily Life:
Shetou Township has been developing hosiery industry for a long time. So, what is special about hosiery?
1.Main functions: it is used to provide the feet with balanced insulation, ventilation, comfort, proper protection and prevention of foot odor.
2.Further functions: such as to improve personal image, to show civility and respect, to look good, to avoid bacteria and to satisfy special needs In order to make it easier to wear, hosiery manufacturers have developed various kinds of hosiery and give it many different functions, which indeed do us a great favor. Here is an introduction of hosiery along with its characteristics and functions:
Category 1. Hosiery Classified by Manufacturing Machines: Socks and Tights
Hosiery is one of the accessories of clothing. It protects our feet, keeps them warm, and makes them look good. Hosiery can be divided into two groups based on the machines the manufacturers use:
Socks:
that is, the common cotton socks we wear, including toe socks, student socks, and sport socks.   
Pantyhose:
including pantyhose, footless tights, and tights. According to the lengths, there are short leggings, capri leggings, and regular leggings.   
Category 2. Hosiery Classified by Lengths: Short Socks, Ankle Socks, Mid-calf Socks, Knee Socks, Knee-high Stockings, and Panty hoses.
  
Category 3. Hosiery Classified by Functions: Muti-functional Socks, such as Sport Socks, Medical Compression Stockings, and Padded Socks
  
Category 4. Hosiery Classified by Materials
a. There are socks made from different materials:
Nylon stockings, elastic panty hose, cotton socks, wool socks, acrylic socks and all kinds of T/C socks. Different materials give different functions to the socks. Here are the hosiery products with special materials made by LOHO Sock Factory and other factories in the Township:   
Category 5. Hosiery Variation
In order to increase the value of related products, the manufacturers have also developed many different hosiery products.
These were the hosiery products we learned from the activity. How various they were!
Sources of the information and pictures:
1.LOHO Sock Factory: http://www.loho.com.tw/zh/support/index.html
2.BOOKS: http://www.books.com.tw/?loc=logo_001
3.Wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E8%A5%AA
4.HSIAOTEX ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.: http://www.soxtex.com.tw/
5.Prosocks: http://www.prosocks.com.tw/