Fox River Mills, Inc. is a sock manufacturer based in Osage, Iowa.
The company was founded in 1900. In 1992, they purchased the Nelson Knitting Company of Rockford, Illinois, and in the process acquired the trademark on the Red Heel socks used to make sock monkeys. Fox River Mills includes instructions for making a sock monkey in every packet of Red Heel socks.
Fox River Mills is also known for their odor-controlling X-Static sock liners and their line of organic wool socks.
Famous quotes containing the words fox, river and/or mills:
“Have you ever been in love? A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me.”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)
“There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.”
—Irving Mills (1894–1985)