While they do accomplish this task, they have a tendency to always slip off your ankles, leaving you with a weird toe-covered, ankle-less ball of cotton inside of your shoe to step on until you either
1) dig your fingers deep into the pit of your shoe to try and hook the ankle of the sock back onto your foot or
2) remove your shoe and replace the sock in its rightful position on your foot before retying your shoe.
These are an incredibly bad idea during winter/fall/rain when taking off your shoes is even less ideal. You should probably stick to wool socks during these times anyways becasue they are warmer than cotton, and as long as you’re doing your own thing nobody can hate on what your feet/sock situation looks like.
thank you to beaggalengold for this very specific fashion-related mistake