Even in the Hebrides

[ThistleDown]

I have a few pair of hose knit in the fifties and sixties by a friend of my mother in Strathglas. She referred to them as 'greasielamb'. They are still full of lanolin, soft as a lamb after all these years and although originally undyed are turning a bit yellowish in their age. I wouldn't wear them on this forum, but I do when nobody from XMarks is looking

[CMcG]

I have a few pair of hose knit in the fifties and sixties by a friend of my mother in Strathglas. She referred to them as 'greasielamb'. They are still full of lanolin, soft as a lamb after all these years and although originally undyed are turning a bit yellowish in their age. I wouldn't wear them on this forum, but I do when nobody from XMarks is looking

Those sound like lovely hose! That's a perfect example of where the categorical injunction against anything resembling white socks shouldn't be taken too far and we should be able to parse the options.

I think there is a real difference between what you've describe (or the hand knit ones I posted earlier) and the typically thin, crappy, rental/bargain examples. That difference is not only in thickness or quality of wool. The nice ones are a natural cream/ecru colour vs. the nasty ones that tend towards either bleached or dingy white.

Not that I actually own any such hose... I guess I'm just playing the Devil's advocate