Designing for my son with size 49/ 14,5 a pair of socks based on the knit-frock of the fishermen from Scheveningen, a coastal town in the Netherlands.
The women of the fishermen from Scheveningen knitted the lower half of their sweaters in plain stockinet stitch. The upper half was decorated with some kind of cables. There were individual differences in how to connect the cables in the pattern together. The pattern of the upper half would mostly start with a zigzag edge. From a distance these differences would not show. Therefore all sweaters would look alike.
More about these sweaters in the book Nederlandse Visserstruien by Henriette van der Klift-Tellegen (Bilt 1983).The book has also been translated in English. The picture of the fisherman is from the book and the fisherman in the middle wears the sweater these socks are based on.
The socks are designed for my son Bart with feet size 49/ 14,5 but can easily be adjusted to other sizes.