Toe socks
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Toe socks are socks that have been knitted so that each toe is individually encased the same way as fingers within a glove.
19th-century stockings with toes exposed at Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, near Rome, Italy.
Sandra Magnus in toe socks (STS-135).
Japanese tabi socks
Tabi
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Tabi are traditional Japanese socks worn with thonged footwear such as zori, dating back to the 15th century.
Pair of tabi
Tabi being worn with geta
Cotton-paper tabi, 1700s
Cloth tabi with ties, early 1900s