Leg wraps part2 a different way...

[brewerpaul]

I was getting ready to post this thread but pugcasso sort of beat me to the post punch. Well done with the leg wraps, it is a great and versatile idea that only depends on the cloth you have at hand to work with. I can see myself using that idea as well.

I have a similar idea that I will use this winter. As pugcasso states kilt hose are expensive. I have a few pair and plan to keep them for proper use. The problem I run into is that I walk daily to work, about a mile, in my Elkommando sport kilt. Normally I just wear my short merino wool socks, summer and winter, and my New Balance trail runners. Once at work I change to scrubs. Well about this time of year Missouri starts to see colder temps, even below 0 in the deep of winter. I dont plan to change my kilt wearing to work but do need to cover my legs a bit more. The issue is keeping my good kilt hose in good shape. With 17 inch calves I can see the tops of my kilt hose becoming quite stretched out. When Tobus posted some photos backpacking in military leggings I started my search. Alas the young have small calves as even the reproductions of leggings dont cut it. Then I remembered the legging wraps that many soldiers of different nations used. A few searches on the net landed me on Ebay where I found a pair of Japanese Wool Puttee (legging wraps). These are 3 and 3/4 inches wide, 8 feet long of wool with a tie around the top. After a last minute bid, sitting with my Android Ebay app counting the seconds and me on a laptop putting in a final bid, I landed my puttee. I got them yesterday and they are great. The ones I got are in prefect shape with no holes or worn ties. They take maybe 30-45 seconds to put on each and are quite warm and comfy. With no lycra or stretch material in them they dont lay totally flat on your leg, unless your legs are one diameter from ankle to knees. The do overlap enough to not allow pockets of airflow. Photos are below showing my answer to remaining warm walking to and from work without the expense, need or wearing out of my good kilt hose.
















I know I will get alot of use from these puttee with my kilts but also my East German military breeks. In time, and funding, I plan to get some really nice country breek socks but until then I plan to stay quite warm this winter, bifurcated or unbifurcated.

Cheers and thanks pugcasso and Tobus for the inspiration,,,

[pugcasso]

Those look great!

When I saw your photos, I remembered seeing a photo in the "show us your vintage kilt photos" (on page 28 ... photo of two men at the very bottom post). The man on our left has what seem to be very similar wraps.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...6/index28.html


They also remind me of these leg wraps or winingas from a more ancient era


http://historicenterprises.com/winin...l?cPath=99_190


This leg-wrap closure hooks may also be useful (although I feel like something tied around the leg would feel more secure )

http://historicenterprises.com/hooke...l?cPath=99_120


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I think I kind of like the look of leg wraps better than hose ... they look more archaic and not as dressy.

I like the actual tied 'garters' as opposed to the more formal looking flashes but I would like to get hose and flashes some day as well

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I think it's interesting to look back in history and see what attire people had with the kilt... you can use these as inspiration.

When I tried mine, I was looking back to more of an Anglo-Saxon / Viking idea and didn't know there were leg wrappings being used with the kilt in the past.

[brewerpaul]

@pugcasso
your quote::::
They also remind me of these leg wraps or winingas from a more ancient era





Thanks for the link I do like the winingas. Me thinks Ill have to go down to JoAnn's fabric store down the road and see what kind of fabric I might find in the clearance bins. Never know what they may be letting go of. If it saves my kilt hose for nicer times Im for wrapping my legs all winter long..

Cheers \_/\_/

[Grizzly]

Sorry if this slightly hijacks the thread and Mods please feel free to move it but I was at the Loch Ness exhibition centre at Drumnadrochit in August and I saw one of the tour guides from one of the tourist coaches wearing what looked like some sort of sheepskin legwarmer things wrapped around his legs and held together with criss cross leather thongs. They looked fantastic and so much more rustic and authentic than modern hose. I guess that if you cut the foot part of Ugg boots and then laced up the leg in a ghillie brogue style long lace you get a better idea of what I mean.

Does anyone know what these are called and where can you get them or do you think that they were more of a homemade accessory.

they really looked the part.