This week's report - June 15, 2026

This week, the Report makes a perfectly ill-timed decision: introducing knee-high socks in the middle of June.

More specifically, Bas-de-chausses (hose), because it is important not to call a sock a sock.

Had our business acumen been sharper, we would have waited for the holiday season, or at least September; but it would be unneighborly to receive a teeming box from Japan and not share its content immediately.

The hose do indeed come from Domingo Socks, a Japanese company with no website.

We advise to wear your pair either however you damn well please, or literal-mindedly: south of our "Haut-de-chausses". No, that doesn't translate well into English.

Domingo makes them in Spain using traditional know-how — a phrase worn threadbare which simply means that the modern world has made little or no incursion into these particular socks.

Women stockings – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mid-18th European stockings - Met Museum

American stockings - Met Museum

Silk men stockings, end of the 19th century

Few things were better before, except for socks, souliers, and silhouettes: thus speaks Bourgine.

Take it from this guy

Gentlefolk,

Bourgine
15 rue Racine à Paris
Lundi-Samedi, 11h-19h
Dimanche, 13h-19h