Polo Ralph Lauren Super Soft Flat Dress Crew Socks

The quarter socks elsewhere on this page are for sneakers and boat shoes. These are flat-knit dress crews — thinner, longer, and the right thing under trousers with a loafer, where a ribbed athletic sock reads as a mistake. Ralph Lauren's are softer than most dress socks, which are often unpleasantly thin. At 4.2 this is the lowest-rated item on the page and the complaints are consistent: they are fine, they are not remarkable, and twenty-seven dollars is a lot for socks. Buy them to complete an outfit rather than as a gift in themselves.

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