That's still a pretty advanced sock...

For a disturbingly long time "socks" were just two long strips of cloth. While "foot bags" existed for a long time, they were just for the wealthy until less than a century ago in some places.

Be careful with such analogies!

The topologists might discover this post and then flock here, discussing how many holes there are in a pair of pants or so...

Foot bag = hackey sack

Brave

Great, then, now we have another kind of hand bag.

They're shitty footbags then. I can't play hackey sack with a sock!

kitten mittens