Largest collection of socks

The largest collection of socks is 1,531 pairs, achieved by Jim Donovan (USA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on 8 December 2025.

Jim is a news anchor for the CBS TV station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For years, he has worn his colorful, novelty socks while presenting on TV. Finding it quite amusing, their viewers would send Jim novelty socks as gifts- thus growing his collection.

Now that Jim is preparing to retire from his broadcasting career, he decided to give his socks a count- he was happy to find that his total collection of 1,531 surpassed the previous record of 1,165. Jim's collection of socks features fun novelties such as animals, food and notable cartoon characters.