Even in the Hebrides

[Liam]

I continue to be amazed by the "ecru-o-phobia" that exists on this forum. I think ecru hose can look pretty sharp with an Aran sweater, and also with a white shirt in a more formal context. True, I agree that kilt rental shops generally "sell" the renter a pair of either ecru or black hose to simplify their own business, and wearing of these colours may "mark" you as a "rookie", or a member of a pipe and drum band, but so what. We all put out kilts on for the first time once in our lives! This evening I think I'll don my ecru hose just to be different! (I wear flat caps too).

[xman]

I think ecru hose can look pretty sharp with an Aran sweater, and also with a white shirt in a more formal context.

And while I think that an aran sweater can pull off what a white shirt can't, formality, and that diced, tartan and coloured hose are always going to look better with a kilt, that's my opinion. I'm glad you're here with yours. It might change. Mine keeps changing. I used to think Red and Orange were a bad idea together, I just hadn't yet learned how they go.