Sock holding dressing aid

A sock-holding dressing aid for a person to use in donning a sock having a cuff onto a foot of the person, comprising:

• means for holding the cuff of the sock in an expanded position ahead of the foot of the user without inserting said means into the sock in order to facilitate insertion of the foot into the sock, said means including a forwardly opening U-shaped member composed of a resiliently deformable material, the U-shaped member having a rearwardly disposed semicircularly shaped base portion and spaced apart first and second side portions extending forwardly from the semicircularly shaped base portion such that the person can place the U-shaped member in a circumscribing relationship to the cuff of the sock with the first and second side portions alongside opposite sides of the cuff of the sock;
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• means for enabling the person to pull the U-shaped member toward the person in order to pull the sock onto the foot of the person without the person having to bend over toward the foot, said means including first and second straps connected to the U-shaped member, which first and second straps are composed of a flexible textile fabric material such that the user can wind the straps around the U-shaped member into a storage configuration;
• wherein the U-shaped member includes means for gripping the cuff of the sock without inserting the U-shaped member into the sock, said means including a first flange extending sidewardly to the right from the first side portion of the U-shaped member and a second flange extending sidewardly to the left from the second side portion of the U-shaped member so that the user can loop the cuff of the sock over the first and second flanges without inserting the U-shaped member into the sock, said first and second flanges being smooth without pointed indentations.