The heinous green carpet at PDX has become more powerful than we could have ever imagined.
It’s now a sock pattern. An ugly sock pattern, offered by Portland outfit The Athletic. Check it:
- The Athletic
It’s tough to know how to feel, right? The specificity of this is pleasing to me, but it also feels like something I’d be explaining to people with a tinge of shame.
I wanted to do a poll, but then I realized I’ve worked here seven months and still don’t know how to create one. So let’s do this without the benefit of rigorous social science. PDX Carpet Socks: What say you, Blogtown?
Vom.
You can’t wear minty/pea green with neon green. EVERYONE knows that! Guy!
They aren’t terrible, I’m sure with the right pair of pants and shoes they’d stand out. Now using them in an athletic vein I’m not down with.
I love the Portland airport. I have no aesthetic parameters whatsoever re: socks. I would like to own these socks.
You obviously haven’t lived here long enough and thus traveled away and back enough to appreciate how homey that carpet feels when you step off your return flight.
Well that’s judgey, Paul. We all have our own thresholds for nostalgia. I’ve lived here four years today.
The Portland airport is one of the least terrible airports in the country. That’s totally worth celebratory footwear.
Socks? No.
Skin tight spandex bodysuit suitable for speed skating or winter fixie roadbike Tour de Springwater Corridor time trial training?
Check.
OH MY GOD I WANT
I feel like Paul Cone. I love seeing that carpet because it means I’m home. But I was conceived, born, and raised here. So maybe I’m being judgy.