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Through their art, music and dance, Aborginal Australians connect their worship of totem ancestor spirits and their yearning for Dream Time.
This time we have used detailed Dot Art converging into circles of different sizes to show a three-dimensional sense of the primeval Earth, while a tree of life laden with fruit takes a biblical metaphor to express humanity departing Dream Time and our life here beginning.
When the socks are flipped, we’ve taken advantage of the socks’ weaving method with free-flowing lines creating dizzying ripples and a complex visual effect that suggests this chaotic yet orderly real world.
Aboriginal Australians have lived on the continent for more than 50,000 years, forming one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures. Their traditions are shaped by distinctive beliefs, cultural practices, and ways of understanding the world. According to Aboriginal creation traditions, before humans existed, ancestral beings emerged from the earth and descended from the sky in many different forms, awakening a world that had once been dark and still.
These ancestral beings created the stars, moon, and sun, shaped mountains, rivers, trees, and lakes into the natural landscape, and gave form to humans and animals. This sacred period of creation is often referred to as the Dreaming, or Dreamtime.
In many Aboriginal traditions, a person enters the physical world at birth while remaining spiritually connected to the Dreaming. Dreams can become a way of reconnecting with that spiritual realm, while death marks the return of the spirit to its ancestral source. Rather than following a simple linear sequence, the Dreaming is understood as a reality in which past, present, land, spirit, and ancestry remain deeply interconnected.
In this sense, the world we experience is only one layer of reality, while the Dreaming connects life, land, ancestry, and the spiritual world as part of a greater whole.
#FLIPPOS Socks Design
Aboriginal Australian cultures have long expressed connections to ancestral beings and the Dreaming through art, music, storytelling, and dance. For this design, we used intricate dot-inspired patterns to form circles of different scales, creating a layered sense of the ancient landscape. A fruit-bearing Tree of Life stands at the center, using a symbolic visual metaphor to represent the origin and unfolding of human life.
When FLIPPOS Socks are flipped down, the structure of the knit is used to create freely flowing lines, hypnotic ripples, and a visually complex geometric space. The resulting pattern reflects the world around us—a reality that can appear chaotic, yet still contains its own underlying order.
The original idea of FLIPPOS hosiery is to create a pair of compression stocking fulfilling functions in every way. You could wear it to the office and exercise after work as well. Simply with ONE SAME pair of stocking.
Considering that most people either sit or stand for a long time for work in which cause the fatigue condition upon feet and calf, we develop our hosiery to apply ‘graduated compression’ from the sole of the foot to calf to improve this situation.
Additionally, wearing FLIPPOS during exercise could reduce muscle vibration effectively, produce greater strength, and improve the speed of fatigue recovery after exercising.
Flip the length, flip the attitude.
In order to cater for any occasion and any outfit, FLIPPOS creates the first compression hosiery that can be folded. You could wear it knee-high or fold it to the calf. The item can be transformed into socks within seconds.
★Length BEFORE flipping: Knee-High
★Length AFTER flipping: 18cm above ankle
