Classic kilt style - as seen at large this summer in Scotland

[Troglodyte]

Interesting that patterned hose, considered a faux pas in Day Dress for over a century, have recently returned to favour.

I'm not sure faux pas is correct here, but I get fully what you mean.

There was a great back-lash in the early years of the 20th century against the strictures of dress that generally prevailed (particularly in Britain) during the Victorian era. And Highland dress seems to have where the simpler forms were actively encouraged.

Myself, I was advised as a budding kilter that diced and tartan hose were the only 'correct' forms with the kilt, but that plainer versions were optional, according to occasion or activity. But that was by my Victorian grandparents, so make of that what you will!

The young princes (whose style we still try to follow) were gretly criticised at the time for their dressing-down fashions, but the outfits of the Prince of Wales and Duke of York (later Edward VIII and George VI) are now thought the quintessential style - and not just their Highland dress.

If we see these things in equivalent modern terms, the universal wearing of jeans, t-shirts and hoodies is given no thought, but their sartorial status equivalents of tweeds and cords are now considered dressing-up - no longer the rural workwear of the common man that they once were.

Personally, I generally wear single day-wear coloured hose, but, having a good selection of diced and tartan hose also (some of them quite old and inheritted), I have no qualms about wearing them during the day if I fancy. Mass-produced plain hose are fine, but diced to match your kilt gives you a sense or moral (or is that morale) advantage.

It's all part of the game.