Diary of a Gen Z Student: Put a sock on it, millennials — think of the children (me)

"From what I’ve seen in historical documents, like the stacks of early 2000s magazines in the attic of my house, ankle socks were once the ‘it’ thing."

Jane Cowan, who can have the Irish Examiner millennial cohorts' skinny jeans when she pries them - with great difficulty - off our cold, dead legs. Photograph Moya Nolan

One of life’s greatest mysteries is where lost socks go to die. Because every few months, I find myself with a half empty (pessimistic, I know) sock drawer. It’s like they vanish into a black hole or evaporate; I can’t work it out. 

I don’t know if the washing machine is eating them, or if I’m losing them on nights out, like I do with lipliners. Either way, I was recently forced, in a pinch, to rob a pair of socks from my mother’s drawer.