These socks are OK... they are fuzzing up like they are made of cheap or loosely woven cotton...  so they have those little lint balls all over them.  I have other cotton socks, which have been worn and washed several dozen times and they look better then these after one or two washes...  I bought both white and black... and they are the same... but the black ones are even worse looking because the lint balls show up more on them verse the white set...