sox

[Alan H]

I have dinosaur calves. You know what? Those Cream sox you have on sale and have had on sale for a long time at, like <$10???

They fit my calves.

And all those fancy schmantzy hose, which are truly just gorgeous......

---don't.

OK, well, I got one pair of oatmeal hose that do, but I digress. And of course Strings outrageous hose.... but I mean the nice woolies that I got from Mac at the Museum. They're beautiful. Man are they ever NICE. But they don't go around my blasted calves.

The cheapie cream ones, do.

I don't suppose you have these very same hose, the exact same thing in colors other than cream, do you?

[RockyR]

Alan,

The cream hose we sell are knitted on the same machine that does our colored ones. IN THEORY, if your cream ones fit, the others should fit as well.

R-

[room2ndfloor]

Alan,

The cream hose we sell are knitted on the same machine that does our colored ones. IN THEORY, if your cream ones fit, the others should fit as well.

R-

Dye can affect fiber properties. The dye fills up the fiber capillaries, sometimes making the fabric (either woven or knitted) stiffer, smaller, and less absorbent.

[Panache]

Dye can affect fiber properties. The dye fills up the fiber capillaries, sometimes making the fabric (either woven or knitted) stiffer, smaller, and less absorbent.

Case in point: I have a bunch of hose by Gaelic Themes all in the same size, but for some odd reason my two green pairs and one lovat green pair run small, my two oatmeal/tan and one blue pair run long, my two lovat blue run big (they also seem more stretchy, and the black ones seem in the middle.

I suggest that you put out the call Alan for all the M.O.E.S.* on XMTS to give you their recomendations for hose and have them specify brand, model, and color of hose

Cheers

Jamie


*Men of Extraordinary Size

[Alan H]

Well, now, this is interesting.

I have three pairs of hose from MacKinnons Kilts, which buys "the usual stuff" and hawks it at the various Games we attend. I would assume...possibly wrongly.... that all their hose are from the same source.

The lovat green size 10-13 pair was hopeless and I gave it away after trying them once and not being able to get them on much past mid-calf.

The charcoal grey are almost manageable. They're a bit short and tight.

But the oatmeal brown hose are wonderful...long enough, big enough around.

James, there are other options...the o' marled hose from sock dreams, for example.