 Many thanks to Olivia at Yummy Wakame for this interview:
What lead you to starting Fetishize-Me?
utter frustration with working all day to make the people above me richer.
Have you always been this fascinated with socks or were you a late bloomer?
I first became "aware" of socks in my early teens, I remember this little shop near the marina that had the most interesting socks I'd ever seen.
You have concentrated your efforts on socks but do you have other garment fetishes?
I adore tall boots, and corsets, if I could afford them I'd fetishize them.
What are your favourite socks in the whole collection?
right now it'd have to be these new purple 36 inch longsocks, they are purple thigh high heaven. 8/10/04 currently it’s my rainbow toe socks with the toes cut out...
Which socks do you find you wear the most?
it's a tie between the longsocks & the bootsocks, possibly the bootsocks slightly more because they seem to jump right out of the sock box when I'm half awake in the morning.
8\10\04 lately I’ve mostly been wearing either the Feelmax toesocks or the tabi socks...
Which socks get the best reaction from passers-by?
people really seem drawn to anything around the knees or stripey.
Which socks do you feel sexiest in?
the criss cross/lace up thigh highs are like magic to me, I can't take my eyes off the mirror when I have them on.
Like men spend 90% of their day staring at breasts, do you find yourself looking at socks?
I'm constantly noticing socks & sock references and hoping they will pan back over the feet when I'm watching TV or movies.
How often do you dream about socks?
not as often as I dream about being lost trying to navigate through my site, literally having to move from page to page through the navbar buttons while I'm also attempting to solve design issues.
Are the majority of your customers women or men?
it seems pretty well balanced with women taking a lead.
Do you hoard old favourites when they become unwearable or do you toss them?
yeah, I still have socks that haven’t really been wearable since the 80s, but I can’t part with them.
Do you wear socks all the time, even while youre sleeping?
pretty much always (except to bathe of course)
Does it ever get too hot to wear socks?
I think it was July 10th last year ...
Have you ever gone without socks for an entire day?
Hmmm, I doubt it, my toes are shy and like alot of privacy.
Did you know you have cute toes?
they're blushing now.
If you could design a pair of unusual socks and not have to worry about suppliers or demand, what
would they be?
probably the ultimate velvet socks & thigh highs, that perfectly lush soft velvet that no one can resist touching, and they would be snug & stretchy causing them to fit perfectly and stay wherever you put them.
Have you ever had sock puppets as pets and what were their names?
strangely, I've never seen socks that way, what's strange is that I love puppets, not in a strange way
mind you, I just think they're fun and socks are fun but socks as puppets has never struck me as fun and it sure didn't do pets.com any good.
Which of the socks in your collection do you think look sexy on men?
Velvet thighs on a man can only be an improvement
Roughly how many pairs of socks do you personally own?
I had 50 matching pairs in one place last time I counted...
I have more than that now, yeah, definitely more.
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