It's simple, it just costs more to seam a sock in the U.S. than it does in China or Honduras.
Aside from the DSLR and lenses combo, today's selections would make for nice additions to any over-sized, fur-lined sock in a few short weeks.
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Spanish hopes in the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal now rest with consistent Nicolas Almagro, who beat American wildcard Jack Sock in four sets.
He instructed them to smooth out the wrinkles around their heels and little toes, then hold the sock in place while slipping on the shoe, all so they would avoid blisters.
"Pinch a cup of porridge oats from the breakfast buffet, tie it up in a sock, float the sock in a hot water, then use as a puff to massage your body, " Coombe added.
This year, the annual tour takes in diverse locations, from a squirrel conservation project on Anglesey to a sock factory in Carmarthenshire.
From where, you may wonder, did this smart-sock jolt in the zeitgeist come?
Her father carried gold coins in his sock during the war, so she does it in memory of him.
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The fact that these wines often taste like a sweaty gym sock may, in fact, be no small coincidence.
More than a fourth of the founders of the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies sock away stock in trusts or family partnerships and limited liability companies designed to benefit their heirs.
Stance, a sock company based in San-Clemente, Calif.
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Yet the most famous, Kermit the Frog, is simply a hand in a sock.
If you think it does, put your money in a sock under your mattress.
She turned to Arty with surprise, as though she had just found something unsavory in his sock drawer.
If I put my leg in a sock, how did it end up on one, two, three sides?
While his interrogator was temporarily distracted, he hid his microphone and mini tape-recorder -- used to record dialogue -- in his sock.
"This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun, " says a longtime political observer.
Some have mastered the art of making the sock switch while standing in speeding subway trains, entertaining fellow passengers with their delicate balancing act.
This might be the best sock-related news in the NBA since players wore the really fun digi socks during the 2011 NBA Rookie Challenge.
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In the U.S., found a hit with its fictional spokesman Doug the irreverent orange sock puppet, who figures in ads on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Chris Collins says a gold-label version of the band's 1963 debut album Please Please Me, left to him and his sister, will now go "back in the sock drawer".
During a search in the booking room, authorities said, Davidson County Sheriff's deputies discovered a plastic bag concealed in his sock that contained 8 Xanax pills, 24 oxycodone pills and 4 oxymorphone pills.
Despite the fact that USTs are a safe haven, putting money in your sock drawer or buying commemorate NASCAR plates lined with gold or silver would hold up better over time.
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Each sock comes with its own RFID chip, which can be "read" by a NFC (near field communication) device known as a sock sorter, which in turn communicates via Bluetooth with an iPhone.
That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.
The DIs wore their hair long and pinned up in "sock buns, " a Marine Corps specialty that required snipping off the toe line of a sock, rolling the fabric into a doughnut shape, and wrapping and winding a ponytail's worth of hair around it.
The ball was waiting for him in his locker, stuffed in a white sock.
Of course, in full Highland rig as he was, he had his trusty skean dhu, his little dirk, tucked in his right sock.
On "Old Sock, " he eases in as vocalist, and it's no surprise he admires Lee and Billie Holiday, singers who worked behind the beat.
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