Phone socks rule. In as many shapes, colours and sizes as you can comfortably imagine, and then some.
Phone socks used to be the province of smart executives – remember those plastic-windowed faux leather phone socks they all wore on their belts, that turned out to be made of the same stuff posh biros are clad in? If you bought one of those phones that were clearly marketed towards thrusting young urban communicators (read: hot guy/girl in city office job conducting meetings on the run), you’d get a choice of phone socks thrown in for free, so you could hang the thing on your belt and show everyone what a hotshot you were. These phone socks, of course, died a quick death because thieves thought you were hanging your phone ostentatiously off your belt as an invitation for it to get nicked.
Be that as it may (it is), that’s where phone socks came from. Nowadays, of course, you don’t get phone socks for free unless you’re so rich you don’t ever have to go anywhere where someone might mug you. You have to buy phone socks, which are now geared towards one of two things: protection (even the most determined thief recoils from registered phone socks attached viciously to the inside of a rucksack), or bold statement (as in the phone socks covered in kittens much favoured by stripy-legged teenage girls who wear makeup and look frightening in shopping centres).
Phone socks have their practical uses (besides anti theft), mind: all phone socks are pretty good at stopping your device from getting bashed, scratched and cracked in the run of everyday life. And with everyone’s phone pretty much looking the same, phone socks are a good way not just to individualise, but to recognise. Which phone is mine? The one with the phone socks that look like Dennis the Menace.
