Give Your Father Socks for Christmas

Tens of millions of Americans are trying to figure out what to buy their fathers for Christmas. If you're one of them, my advice is simple: Buy him socks. And not just any socks. Buy him the same socks you bought him last year. If you failed to buy him socks last year, buy him whatever socks he happens to be wearing right now.

- By William J. Luther

It is easy to mock the sock. Socks have all the panache of a grocery-store birthday cake or a gas-station bouquet. It is the sort of thing late-night comedians caricature when they want to illustrate unimaginative gift-giving. It’s a cliché. But c