HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

**gazbot** · 3rd March 13, 05:22 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/palace-prince-...162807126.html

Any body have any guesses what colour His Royal Highnesses hose are in the picture?

**plaid preacher** · 3rd March 13, 05:28 PM

I'm going grey. The Earl of Wessex is wearing what might be called a dove grey. The Duke's seem to be darker, but they seem to be in similar attire with grey tweed over the Balmoral tartan and grey hose. A good looking ensemble.

**DougC** · 3rd March 13, 06:34 PM

Don't care who he is...he's wearing Campbell. Good enough for me.

**artificer** · 3rd March 13, 06:53 PM

Prince Phillip's kilt appears much warmer than the standard Balmoral Tartan (seen behind him and below on Prince Charles)

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If I had a guess I'd say his hose are probably 'putty' or 'mushroom', or at a stretch (if the photo colours have been altered to improve other areas) Lovat Green.

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**M. A. C. Newsome** · 4th March 13, 05:30 AM

They are grey hose. Does it really matter if we want to call them "putty" or "mushroom" or "dove grey" or the like? Honestly, if someone called me up and asked if I had any "putty colored hose" I wouldn't know what to tell them....

**OC Richard** · 4th March 13, 05:53 AM

Yes these colour terms get silly, but still, "grey" often is used to refer to a "cool" grey while "putty" and "mushroom" respectively usually refer to greys that are progressively warmer, with a bit more brown in them, on the continuum between white and brown (while grey is on the continuum between white and black). If I were selling something halfway between an ordinary cool grey and taupe, I probably wouldn't call it "grey" but possibly "mushroom" or "putty" and most people would know what it meant.

So in the lower photo Charles' hose I would call "grey" but his kilt "putty". In the upper photo I would call Philip's kilt "tan".

BTW it's a strange oddity of English that there are so many colours which we don't have words for, but for colours in between white and brown we have a large number of words for (beige, tan, khaki, bone, ecru, buff, oatmeal, fawn, sand, camel, taupe, putty, mushroom, biscuit, and who knows what else).

**mookien** · 4th March 13, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by gazbot

http://news.yahoo.com/palace-prince-...162807126.html

Any body have any guesses what colour His Royal Highnesses hose are in the picture?

After factoring in the shade and the proximity to the black umbrella, I'm guessing either #828282 or #757575 or even #696969, though I lean slightly towards the last one, while fully realizing that we are in a gray area here.

If you insist on giving them romantic descriptive names, I would suggest gray51, gray46, and gray41 - all colors of U.S. Navy WW-II era battleships and filing cabinets. For details see

http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

**Downunder Kilt** · 4th March 13, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by mookien

If you insist on giving them romantic descriptive names, I would suggest gray51, gray46, and gray41 - all colors of U.S. Navy WW-II era battleships and filing cabinets. For details see

http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

Taking a bit of a punt here, but I would put my money on those hose as being made in the UK, so why would you put U.S. descriptors on the colour of them.

**mookien** · 4th March 13, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

Taking a bit of a punt here, but I would put my money on those hose as being made in the UK, so why would you put U.S. descriptors on the colour of them.

Those were just the first things that came to my mind that seemed to match. I have no doubt that at least some of Her Majesty's Ships and filing cabinets are every bit as dull in appearance as their U.S. counterparts.