Argyll Hose with Day Wear

[tpa]

There is a fairly recent example of diced top hose with day wear and I don't see anyone taking him to task.

[Liam]

There is a fairly recent example of diced top hose with day wear and I don't see anyone taking him to task.

I wouldn't consider those to be diced or Argyll hose, as you point out the fold over is checked.

[Jock Scot]

I wouldn't consider those to be diced or Argyll hose, as you point out the fold over is checked.

Nor would I.

[IsaacW]

Pattern tops are not the same as full patterned hose. I think there is a long established and accepted usage of those for daywear.

[Jock Scot]

Pattern tops are not the same as full patterned hose. I think there is a long established and accepted usage of those for daywear.

I cannot help but agree.

[IsaacW]

A couple chessboard top hose I wear...

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[tpa]

I wouldn't consider those to be diced or Argyll hose, as you point out the fold over is checked.

Maybe not, but the effect is the same whether the pattern is diamond shaped or checked (square); and dice are square, not diamond shaped.

[davidlpope]

There is a fairly recent example of diced top hose with day wear and I don't see anyone taking him to task.

Those aren't Argyll hose. They're plain hose with a checked cuff.

These are Argyll hose:



These are Diced hose:

[ShaunMaxwell]

And here's a pair of Argyle top hose:

[AFS1970]

I may be over complicating things, but I would think of the patterned top hose as a sort of hybrid between levels of formality. In this I would wear them during the day, but only if I were more smartly dressed, as the pictures in this thread all show others doing. I think if I were informally dressed, perhaps in a T-Shirt at a pub, I would not think to have such fancy hose. However with a shirt and tie, a jacket or sweater/jumper they would not seem fancy at all to me.

This thread is renewing my desire to get a pair or two of checkerboard hose.