LOVE these socks!  My faves!  I dry them in the dryer-  I wear a size 6.5 show, and they never shrink too small.  I wish I could get them in pink and light blue, too.  The tops are not too tight like many other socks I buy sight-unseen (because too many vendors don't give us a REALLY great look at the top of the sock.)  I give those away when I get them.  These are soft.  When I first wore them, then re-laundered them, they shed a little, but as they shrunk, they snugged up to a GREAT, fiber-that-doesn't-shed-all-over sock!  They come in a cute little paper gift-box.  -OOH!  UPDATE!  When I purchased these, the pink were not available, - or my computer didn't bring the pink ones up.  They are there now, and I am tossing them into my cart again.  These are not too warm for Spring.