These are about as uncomfortable as you can get.  There is no way these socks can be made to do anything but produce friction between your foot and your shoe.  Oh, and if you try to pull them up a little harder than you are used to doing, they will run like cheap womens' nylons.  I found this hard to believe because I have never seen any pair of mens' socks run.  What happens when they run is you are left with a "bald spot" consisting of 100 percent rubber mesh and no wool.  I don't know what happens to the wool, but I know I couldn't  find it.  These are no different from all other wool socks in this class.  I tried all of them.  They all run: some worse than others.  With the Carhart brand I ripped the whole top section of the sock completely off.  They are all made of rubber mesh, otherwise known as elastic, and they are infused with little ringlets of wool here and there.  They are not knitted at all. This whole segment of the sock industry is nothing but a big smelly fraud.