Hose color choice

[seanachie]

I wear lovat green with my saffron and either traditional garter ties or a hose toppers. I bought my hose toppers from an XMarks member who ran Flamingo Kilts and they were and are first class but alas Flamingo Kilts is no more. Big Mikey, well known on this board, also makes hose toppers. You may wish to consult him.

[MacGumerait]

I would probably go with claret , navy or charcoal with the Thompson Camel and perhaps black with the Saffron . Given that you are wearing an off-white shirt ( no jacket ) and wearing one of these tartans , I would go with a darker tie and darker hose just to add a little contrast .

You could sneak in a Klingon Warrior Badge for a kilt pin .

[Zardoz]

Personally out of those choices I'd go with the Saffron kilt with green hose and tie, Qapla' !

[John_Carrick]

I'm contemplating a Saffron kilt next time (when the cow calves!) and I think lovat green goes particularly well, although black looks great and is what is worn in the army and in many pipe bands. I don't know the Thompson tartan.

[WillowEstate]

Another vote for Lovat green with the saffron kilt - subdued but with a medium colour depth. Perhaps "she who must be obeyed" has a view?

[Chas]

Seeing you will not be wearing a jacket, I would recommend matching your hose to your shirt colour.

[OC Richard]

I've always liked the way saffron kilts look with deep green (Archer Green) jackets and hose. I've seen saffron kilts look great with deep blue hose also.

Camel Thompson is a lovely tartan. My SOP is to avoid any of the main colours present in the kilt when choosing hose; in other words have the hose coordinate rather than match (as green or blue hose coordinate with but do not match the saffron kilt). So if I had a kilt that had all brown shades I'd go with blue hose perhaps, for everyday wear. But we're talking an Episcopal wedding ceremony! So I would want to keep things subdued, going with brown hose perhaps, or bison as was suggested, in other words keeping a similar hue to the kilt but of a darker shade.

I have a personal dislike for offwhite hose. It's partly due to when I got into wearing the kilt back in the 70s, when tartan hose were still fairly common for Evening Dress but many men would show up with offwhite hose, which when paired with white shirts looked a bit dingy. Better in my opinion to go with oatmeal or bison or brown.