....I hope it will not come as a shock to so many of the DR's here at HHW that there is NO such thing as a left sock.
That may be true for Indiana farmboys, but us city boys (who were raised to never wear a patterned shirt after 6 PM) are familiar with formal dress socks that have the diamond clocking only on the outward side of the sock:

If you put the socks on the wrong feet, the decoration would not be visible from the side -
So -left sock on left foot, right sock on right foot!
der Brucer