Hi all.

Question:

What are your thoughts on the pairing these colours together?

Clergy Ancient Tartan Kilt.


Lewis Red Ancient hose. (On sale with Scottish Tartan Museum)


I do not have the hose and the kilt is still in the works though I have some pieces of the tartan LC. I usually wear charcoal hose or black hose if its something where folks would be in dark suits. I like to wear lovat green or ancient blue hose if it’s a lighter mood. I also like khaki-OD hose for runnin round. All of these, I think would look good with the Ancient Clergy in different contexts.

The idea of the Ancient Red, which looks orange to me in a kind of Ancient pallet, is to be the “over the top” colour. Pulled out for those times when a contrasting and bold hose would be more appropriate. And a question maybe, is contrasting hose appropriate in your mind? My feeling is that this would actually be pushing the edges of THCD though I have tended to be a more “conservative” THCD’er I am interested in some simple innovation.

I was actually taken by the THCD Photo Examples thread David started. http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...xamples-63059/

Noticing particularly the diced hose of J.D. Burgess, MBE. The way the colours work yet to my eye they don’t harmonize but complement leaning towards some contrast and I really like that.

Which brings me to the general questions:

What do people think about:

Harmonizing with Colour Hose?
Complementing with Colour Hose?
Contrasting with Colour Hose?

And as always, pictures well appreciated.

peace,
justin