The Company
Wowerat® GmbH was founded 65 years ago.
Since then, we have been your reliable, fair partner for socks and hosiery of all kinds.
Specializing in the wholesale of hosiery, initially mainly fine pantyhose and stockings and then also other items from the fine hosiery sector, such as fine socks and fine knee-highs, we specialized shortly after the company was founded. The range was quickly expanded to include knitwear. Today, it encompasses, in addition to the fine hosiery sector in various dtex strengths as another main focus, an even greater extent, all conceivable hosiery from the knitwear sector: such as baby socks, children's socks, children's knee-highs, children's tights, women's socks, women's knee-highs, women's knitted tights, leg warmers, overknees, as well as men's socks, men's knee-highs, tennis socks, sports and functional socks, medical, nurses', professional socks, etc. Special items such as socks made of COOLMAX® and X-static®, ski socks, support knee-highs, diabetic socks without constricting elastic bands, socklets, toe socks, footlets, cozy socks, paw warmers for dogs, massage socks, as well as increasingly bamboo socks (viscose from bamboo cellulose) and fun homesocks are also included. In the traditional clothing sector, our range includes many items: traditional socks and knee-highs, knee-bundhosen socks, Loferl, hiking knee-highs. In addition, during the autumn-winter season, we offer a large selection of gloves: magic gloves, fleece gloves, gloves with THINSULATE™, Norwegian gloves, thermal gloves, smartphone gloves, arm warmers, as well as hats: Norwegian hats, THINSULATE™ hats, Nepal hats, caps. You will also find ear warmers, headbands, scarves, and neck warmers in our range.
Our range is constantly adapted to new and changing fashion trends and the resulting change in demand. We place great value on the opinion of our customers with whom we are in constant contact, always seeking dialogue and who support us with valuable suggestions. Many good ideas have thus been realized and turned into sales successes for us and our customers.
We are also a reliable partner in the support of major customers for whom we arrange special productions and take care of them. Thanks to our many years of experience and the knowledge of the best and most reliable producers gained thereby, we can also execute very large orders in excellent quality, on time, and correctly.
Contact us if you are interested in a solution specially tailored to your sock production needs.
Creativity and flexibility are our strengths. With particular imagination and care, we select motifs, colors, and designs for each product, which we constantly adapt to changing consumer tastes. The motifs of our hosiery are designed with special attention to detail and in part with our own designers in Germany to meet the difference in customer taste between the country of manufacture and the taste of our customers in Europe. We are always looking for new unusual materials or trends to set new buying impulses for the consumer.
For the production of our toe socks, socklets, footlets, sneaker socks, socks, knee-highs, leg warmers, overknees, and tights, cotton and sheep wool are mainly used, but also alpaca wool, cashmere, merino wool, modal, bamboo viscose, COOLMAX®, X-static®, CORDURA®, TENCEL®, silk, Lycra, elastane, and constantly newly developed yarns are used and processed with traditional double-cylinder machines or modern computer knitting machines.
High-quality raw materials, certified with the Öko-Tex seal, guarantee a high standard of quality characterized by optimal fit, washing, and wearing properties. We place special emphasis on a consistently good processing of our articles.
Through our many years of gained precise knowledge of the different qualities, materials, and sources of supply, we are today able to purchase good quality cheaply worldwide. There are long-standing connections and contacts with leading manufacturers of hosiery for both the fine and knitwear sectors domestically, but especially in European and non-European foreign countries, where we are known as a fair, correct, exceptionally quality-conscious, and reliable trading partner.
We constantly monitor compliance with our high quality standards during the production of the toe socks, footlets, sneaker socks, socks, knee-highs, leg warmers, overknees, and tights in the factories we have selected.
Sales are mainly through our extensive catalog with many photos that is published at least twice a year. This offers detailed information about all the hosiery and other articles and prices we offer, allowing us to dispense with our own costly field service and thus offer you the most favorable prices for good quality.
Take advantage of the offer to request or download our catalog directly on this website.
For our customers, we offer a comprehensive service, avoid leftover stock by the possibility of sorting toe socks, footlets, sneaker socks, socks, knee-highs, leg warmers, overknees, tights, gloves, and hats, etc. by size and color as far as possible.
Should an item not be in stock, we will inform you about the new stock arrival upon request. Risk-free shopping through an anytime exchange right with a money-back guarantee if not satisfied within 4 weeks is a matter of course for us.
We see ourselves as a partner of the trade and are always striving to do everything we can to help you sell successfully.
Our range therefore also includes useful sales aids such as sock stands, tagging guns, sock hangers, carrying bags, advertising banners, etc. We are happy to provide our customers with a free CD of our product photos for selling our products upon request.
We gladly take the time for sales, information, and consultation for you! Talk to us anytime during your visit or on the phone. If desired, we can also keep you informed about novelties via e-mail.
In our showroom, we have all our articles on display. During a visit, we will gladly show you in detail all the hosiery available from our range and advise you on your purchase. Here, you have the opportunity to check everything at leisure over a cup of coffee and then directly sort out the goods. We are sure that your visit will be worthwhile, as you will always find new inspiration with us as we continuously stock new articles and motifs for you. Daily shipping, also abroad. We have many years of export experience.
We are proud of the high positive recognition we have gained in the industry over more than 50 years of business activity and of the trust placed in us by our, in some cases, long-standing customers. A proof of the good relationship with our customers is certainly that we have been supplying some of them for the 2nd generation. We are also aware of our responsibility towards our team of partly long-standing motivated employees at our long-standing location.
Our company is also led by the 2nd generation, and the next generation is already gearing up to continue to be your reliable sock supplier in times of changed consumer behavior and internet trade.
The future is also the right contact for you, as we are constantly working on new products and implementing innovations.
Every day, new dealers from domestic and foreign countries decide to purchase from us.
Contact us, so we can fulfill your sock wishes!
65 years of Wowerat® hosiery wholesale!