Almost as soft as cashmere but these superb j alex swift striped socks are combed cotton ndash cotton rich in fact with 80 of the good stuff plus polyamide for stretch and shape retentionevery pair of j alex swift socks is a bit of uk weaving history the company was established in 1895 in the village of hathern in leicestershire where it remains to this very day producing great socks such as these to the same traditional methods0514