You sometimes see the ingredient "Sodium" listed on foreign food packaging,
which is actually sodium. While Sodium is English,
what first came to Japan was the German word Natrium,
so that's what stuck around.
↑These are Pearl Izumi and Defeet socks, my personal pair.
Since the team jersey I'm on is roughly this color,
whenever I see socks in this color family, I end up buying them.
↑This is Campagnolo's latest wheel bag,
and it's possible that this color has become
Campagnolo's current corporate color.
The other day, when I met directly with someone from the wholesaler
who knows Campagnolo better than anyone else in Japan,
they told me to buy Campagnolo apparel.
Since there was a nice colored sock like the current wheel bag,
I stocked them.
I'm ordering not just for personal use but for retail sale as well.
There are two types. The first one is
the Potassio (Potassio) sock.
Potassio is called Potassium in English,
which is potassium. Again, the German word Kalium
was introduced to Japan first,
so it's become an unfamiliar word here.
Current Campagnolo apparel, though not all of it,
often has element names attached to them—
there's also an Azoto (nitrogen) vest and a Neon jersey among others.
↑Potassio Sock
The color looks different due to the camera,
but the top image is closer to what the naked eye sees.
The Campagnolo logo is on the back of the ankle (showing off when you walk).
In terms of color names, from toe to ankle it's
Turquoise/Blue,
but the other three variations—Black/Gray, solid Black,
and Dark Green/Olive Green—I haven't stocked.
With the solid Black version, the ankle backing
features the Campagnolo logo rather than
a cursive "campagnolo" text logo.
The second one is the Litech Logo Sock.
This one doesn't have an element name.
Also, there's "Mora Sports" at the bottom,
which is an old-established cycling apparel company
that puts out wear under the Mora brand too,
but the Nalini brand is probably more famous.
↑This one
First, there's a Litech Sock made of LITECH material in a short ankle length,
and as a mid-length ankle version of that,
there's the Litech Solid Sock,
and this Litech Logo Sock is a different color variant
of that Solid Sock with a different model name.
This color is the only version available.
For both styles, I stocked sizes S-M (37-40) and L-XL (41-44).
The domestic site shows an XXL (45-47) size,
but it didn't seem to be in the inventory for the Japanese domestic market.
Regarding price,
the Potassio Sock is ¥2,500 (tax-excluded)/¥2,750 (tax-included),
and the Litech Logo Sock is ¥2,200 (tax-excluded)/¥2,420 (tax-included).
For Italian-made socks with the official Campagnolo brand attached,
under ¥3,000 seems pretty reasonable, doesn't it?
Though I'm not sure if these prices still hold now.
That's because on the home site, the Euro price for both
the Potassio Sock and the Litech Logo Sock
is €19.9 (←why is the home country price the same?),
and at the exchange rate at the time of writing this article,
that comes to ¥2,898.41 in Japanese yen.
I don't plan to reorder, so if you're interested, please hurry!
I'm buying one L-XL of each for myself, but I hope you'll forgive me
which is actually sodium. While Sodium is English,
what first came to Japan was the German word Natrium,
so that's what stuck around.
↑These are Pearl Izumi and Defeet socks, my personal pair.
Since the team jersey I'm on is roughly this color,
whenever I see socks in this color family, I end up buying them.
↑This is Campagnolo's latest wheel bag,
and it's possible that this color has become
Campagnolo's current corporate color.
The other day, when I met directly with someone from the wholesaler
who knows Campagnolo better than anyone else in Japan,
they told me to buy Campagnolo apparel.
Since there was a nice colored sock like the current wheel bag,
I stocked them.
I'm ordering not just for personal use but for retail sale as well.
There are two types. The first one is
the Potassio (Potassio) sock.
Potassio is called Potassium in English,
which is potassium. Again, the German word Kalium
was introduced to Japan first,
so it's become an unfamiliar word here.
Current Campagnolo apparel, though not all of it,
often has element names attached to them—
there's also an Azoto (nitrogen) vest and a Neon jersey among others.
↑Potassio Sock
The color looks different due to the camera,
but the top image is closer to what the naked eye sees.
The Campagnolo logo is on the back of the ankle (showing off when you walk).
In terms of color names, from toe to ankle it's
Turquoise/Blue,
but the other three variations—Black/Gray, solid Black,
and Dark Green/Olive Green—I haven't stocked.
With the solid Black version, the ankle backing
features the Campagnolo logo rather than
a cursive "campagnolo" text logo.
The second one is the Litech Logo Sock.
This one doesn't have an element name.
Also, there's "Mora Sports" at the bottom,
which is an old-established cycling apparel company
that puts out wear under the Mora brand too,
but the Nalini brand is probably more famous.
↑This one
First, there's a Litech Sock made of LITECH material in a short ankle length,
and as a mid-length ankle version of that,
there's the Litech Solid Sock,
and this Litech Logo Sock is a different color variant
of that Solid Sock with a different model name.
This color is the only version available.
For both styles, I stocked sizes S-M (37-40) and L-XL (41-44).
The domestic site shows an XXL (45-47) size,
but it didn't seem to be in the inventory for the Japanese domestic market.
Regarding price,
the Potassio Sock is ¥2,500 (tax-excluded)/¥2,750 (tax-included),
and the Litech Logo Sock is ¥2,200 (tax-excluded)/¥2,420 (tax-included).
For Italian-made socks with the official Campagnolo brand attached,
under ¥3,000 seems pretty reasonable, doesn't it?
Though I'm not sure if these prices still hold now.
That's because on the home site, the Euro price for both
the Potassio Sock and the Litech Logo Sock
is €19.9 (←why is the home country price the same?),
and at the exchange rate at the time of writing this article,
that comes to ¥2,898.41 in Japanese yen.
I don't plan to reorder, so if you're interested, please hurry!