I believed for several years that the purpose of socks was to make it easier to put on trousers. Your bare feet would rub up against the trouser legs and stick to them, necessitating more effort to get them all the way through. Socks would just slide past.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura