Cat socks

Cat socks are the most crowded category in novelty sockwear and, by volume, the most boring — an enormous quantity of small embroidered kittens on otherwise ordinary crew socks. The good ones are out there, but they're buried, which is exactly the problem this site exists to fix.

What's worth finding: socks with three-dimensional ears knitted into the cuff so they stick up on your shin, socks that use the foot's shape to make a whole cat rather than printing a picture of one, and the sizeable genre of deliberately unsettling cat art — Renaissance-painting cats, cats with too-human expressions, cats rendered by someone who has clearly never seen a cat.

If you're buying for a specific cat owner, search their cat's breed or colour instead of browsing this page. The catalog goes deep enough that "orange tabby socks" or "black cat socks" will get you something far more personal than a generic pair.