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Darn Tough Vermont is a family owned, American manufacturer of end-use-specific socks. We design, manufacture, sell, and promote the most comfortable, durable, and best-fitting socks available in the market today. This promise is backed up by our unconditional lifetime guarantee:  if you can wear out our socks, we will replace them free of charge. Yarn is just yarn. Machines are just machines …

Less frequent now are the evenings when you would enter a Scottish bothy and lined up above the fireplace hang a line of hand-knitted thick woollen socks drying out from a long day’s walk. Kit has certainly changed over the years, and we find a lot more attention has been made to the feet. Too many times have we seen a large amount of money spent on a superb pair of boots and then under …

If you give a sock the name ‘Darn Tough’ then expectations are automatically high so our Lead Guide gave the Light Hiker socks a real beasting over nearly 500 miles of trekking, wearing them up to 5 days at a time. Ultimately, the material for any sock is key and the Light Hiker is a combination of Merino, Polymide and Spandex. The Merino element allows for non-itch comfort and provides …

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"We are interested in one thing. Producing the best possible socks the world has to offer. Just when we think we’ve arrived, we start over and improve what we’ve almost perfected" "Little changes, small adjustments—a touch more of this or a drop less of that—is what keeps us going. That willingness to never give up, to never be satisfied, to go for that next peak, is what we are all about." …

Our Guarantee"Our unconditional lifetime guarantee is simple and without strings or conditions. If our socks are not the most comfortable, durable and best fitting socks you have ever owned, return them for another pair." No strings. No conditions. For life. …

Still Made in Vermont, USA"After so many decades why do we still knit every pair of our socks here in Vermont? We don’t do it because it’s the easy thing to do—we do it because it’s the right thing to do. We do it because for us, it’s the only way to do it. There are faster and cheaper alternatives but nobody ever outsourced anything for quality."Sock Capital of the World"We live and work in North …