If You Could Have Just One Pair Of Hose

[Jock Scot]

I have found, over many decades, that the best compromise here are dark (bottle) green hose. In the darker evening formal conditions they are dark enough to add a certain mystery to the actual colour and in informal day wear conditions they are colourful enough not to look too drab. Like all compromises the solution is rarely perfect, but dark green hose are getting close for kilt wear.

[Jack Daw]

The $16-a-pair khaki hose from What Price Glory. (And, at that price, I'd pop for a second pair, which I have.)

[Liam]

The $16-a-pair khaki hose from What Price Glory. (And, at that price, I'd pop for a second pair, which I have.)

I am on my second pair, having worn the first ones out. I did a crude attempt at darning them, but they are relegated to the seldom wear pile.

[Jack Daw]

I am on my second pair, having worn the first ones out. I did a crude attempt at darning them, but they are relegated to the seldom wear pile.

I wear mine most of the time and they are still good.

[ShaunMaxwell]

If I could only have one pair, I'd probably go with an ancient green, but really, I'd want a second pair of bottle green hose for my modern colors tartan. The ancient green hose work for the ancient and hunting versions of my tartan. I'm partial to the handknit hose Rocky sells at USA Kilts for the bottle green, and Lewis hose for the ancient green.

[AFS1970]

I think the Charcoal suggestion is the best so far. My current go to hose are a lighter grey, but I am not sure they would do for formal wear. For quite a few years my only pair were off white, but I liked them more for the pattern and the way they were knit than for the color.

I know that I do want some checkerboard topped hose, and eventually a pair of diced hose, but the ones that look nicest to me would probably be seen as too matchy-matchy by most here, so that goes back to the who are we wearing our hose for question.

[Father Bill]

Bison.