@coolbean i'm wrong and retarded.
> In 1905, Nap Lajoie suffered an infected spike wound, attributed to the dye in his socks (fabric color dyes were thought not to be color fast in those days), that nearly resulted in his leg being amputated. Lajoie's solution to this was to wear white sanitary socks ("sanitaries"), but this posed another problem. The colored sock was difficult to put on with the extra white socks, so another solution came of this: a footless sock with a small arched opening at the bottom