I put these heavily worn, purple, leather, lace up Doc Martens on over some crusty black crew cut socks with over a week of wear and they got SO ITCHY! All I could do was scratch my big size 11 feet against the soles and the upper leather, eventually realizing how good it would feel to scratch against the radiator. I can be so resourceful! It felt SO good to scratch these itchy feet, and you can see the socks through the worn holey bits of leather!