Royal Blue hose, anyone make them?

[OC Richard]

Found them!

I bought a pair of "piper socks" from The Tartan Thistle at the Costa Mesa Highland Games.

The shopkeeper said that they're called "Navy Blue" but they're not what I think of as Navy Blue at all.

They're perfect! The colour is very close to MacSpadger's hose up there in his photo: lighter and brighter than Navy Blue, darker and more saturated/intense than Ancient Blue, Air Force Blue, or Lovat Blue. They go great with both my Isle of Skye kilt and my Drummond of Perth (House of Edgar Muted Range) kilt.

I wore them for the first time at a gig I did last night, playing Highland Cathedral along with the Pipe Organ in the immense lovely First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, built in the 1930s (but in a style from more like the 1130s), the graduation ceremony for a school whose colours include that exact shade of blue.

Thing about those "pipers socks", say what you will, yes they have the popcorn tops and they're not traditional &c &c but they solve the issue I've been bedeviled with recently, having hose either too short or too long in the leg. With "pipers socks" (as many of you know) the tops are made super-long and you fold them over twice or thrice and make the height whatever you wish and the width of the turnover whatever you wish. Perfect for a Pipe Band with members of varying proportions who wants to get all their hose to fit exactly the same.