Our Story
Our commitment to social impact through Statement Sockwear
Your Invitation
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Statement Sockwear - Make a statement. Make a difference.
Statement Sockwear is committed to making a difference through, quality, ethics, and impact.
Social Enterprise
Every pair of Statement Sockwear provides 100 days of clean water for someone in Rwanda, Africa, through our partnership with 20 Liters that provides clean water filtration systems and rainwater cisterns.

A Global Crisis
One of the greatest worldwide needs of our time is clean water. 1 in 9 people don’t have access to clean water and dirty water kills more people than all forms of violence, including war. In fact, waterborne diseases are the leading causes of death globally for children under the age of five. We believe clean water is a basic necessity and should be readily accessible for all.
Stability, Hope, & Empowerment
From health to hygiene, access to clean water provides stability, hope, and empowerment. Instead of walking miles everyday to collect water, communities with access to clean water are able to build businesses, reduce water-borne illnesses, and further progress as a society. On average, clean water provides a sevenfold return on investment. Investing in clean water makes sense.
Our Responsibility
After participating in a filter build with 20 Liters, it became clear that it is our responsibility, as individuals and businesses, to invest in clean water. We discovered that of the 450 filters that we built that evening, none of the filters would be able to ship to Rwanda, Africa, until we had raised enough money. The filters would likely sit in a warehouse, despite the immense need, until the end of the year.
Your Choice
Our role as a business became clear: generate sustainable funding by inviting our customers to purchase socks that help provide clean water. We created the 1:100 model where every pair of Statement Sockwear provides 100 days of clean water for someone in Africa. It disrupts the conventional transactional model and allows customers to choose socks that make a statement and a difference.
Ethical Manufacturing
With a vertically integrated supply chain, our manufacturer oversees and controls the entire manufacturing process from the time the cotton is picked to the time the socks are stitched and packaged.

Transparency
Fashion manufacturers routinely cut corners to quickly deliver products and reduce costs. Customers often have little visibility into where products are sourced and manufactured, creating little accountability. It’s an unsettling problem with unsettling results. Rather than plead ignorance, we’ve elected to proactively and intentionally partner with a manufacturer in Colombia that uses a vertically integrated supply chain.
Vertically Integrated
A vertically integrated supply chain means that our manufacturer oversees and controls the entire sock manufacturing process. Rather than outsourcing parts of the process, each step is carefully designed and managed to increase quality, efficiencies, and further unify the vision and values of the company. Decisions about how the company is run then benefits every worker in every facility.
Why Pay More?
This, along with beautiful facilities, fair wages, opportunities for upward mobility, and tight regulations all contributed to our decision to move our manufacturing to Colombia, but it is the emphasis on employee benefits that makes us proud to pay 3-4 times what we would pay in China knowing the people that manufacture our socks are given opportunities to thrive at work and at home.
True Benefits
With a platinum rating in HR, our manufacturer provides benefits like subsidized food and nutrition programs, workout equipment and scheduled fitness classes, education loans and scholarships for families, health care visits for less than $2, activities and sports tournaments for kids, 100% pay for an extended maternity leave, and bonuses that include the opportunity to win a house.
DESIGN & QUALITY
In addition to making a difference, our team focuses on making a statement with unique designs, uncharted concepts, and quality stitch patterns — carefully engineered and manufactured to last.

Detail Matters
We strive to make one-of-a-kind designs and patterns that are not available anywhere else in the world. Our team of designers pays close attention to trends to keep colors relevant and designs exciting. Whether you just see a sliver of the sock or the sock in all its entirety and glory, we believe that every detail matters and that every square inch of the sock be treated like a blank canvas.
Highest Quality
Dress sock designs are complex. The yarn thickness and number of stitches, colors and yarn cuts all factor into the integrity of the sock. The more vertical lines in a design, the more cuts and thus more places a sock could pop a stitch or split at the seam. We take all these factors into consideration and work with a team of engineers to create the best socks possible - tightly woven to last.