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Our unique suggestions for Canadian-esque Father’s Day Gifts along with our top choices of sock styles for Dad.   It’s that time of year again, when we honour the man who has been perfecting his “dad bod” all year, the man who won’t let anyone else touch “his” barbeque while grilling the meanest steak and finally the man who has mastered tent pitching and fire building on those oh-so-functional family camping trips.  Of course, at Uptown Sox we think our fun and cool socks would look great on dad, but let’s share a few other gift ideas that we think...

Funky Socks: The Uptown Origin Tom's Story: Welcome to our story of heroism (not so much), manliness (a little), and subversion of conformity (Check!), set in our own bizarre world of fun socks and daring men’s accessories.   Vision and founding philosophy are probably the most blogged about themes for companies trying to establish their brand. So here goes; at Uptown Sox we have no aspirations toward doing any of the following: Saving the world; Ending global warming; Relieving the downtrodden of the tyranny that they live under; and of course, fighting off the various hordes of Aliens, Zombies, or...