exotic sock colour-names

[ForresterModern]

Yellow, or in UK fox hunting(horses and hounds) terms " Lemon", goes with my tartan pretty well I think.



I have no artistic ability or training in colour choices, but I do have a decade or seven of experience of watching what goes with what and only having one tartan, MacLeod of Harris, does make hose "choice" simpler---------well actually, just grabbing the first pair of hose that comes to hand as the assorted colours in the drawer all work.

I can only think of one color that would not look good on you beneath that kilt ...................white. But then I doubt you've any proper kilt hose in the drawer that color anyway.

[Jock Scot]

I don't think that I have ever owned a pair of white kilt hose, Jeff. I do recall having a couple pairs of short white socks worn with my cricket kit when I was at school though.

[tundramanq]

Jock, looking an thinking about your MacLeod of Harris (Modern?) and the dyed and purchased kilt hose in my drawer. It's one of this glorious tartans that it would be hard to select a bad color of hose for. My black, white and maybe dark brown are the only iffy colors.
I also checked on the variations Rocky has on his site to make sure I was seeing the colors accurately - WOW, between modern, hunting, ancient and the various mills and weights there are 20 available now. You could go broke and never leave your clan.

[Jock Scot]

You are right, MacLeod of Harris is a forgiving tartan and assists those that bother with all this matching nonsense that some get so wound up about, the five Colours----------green, blue, red, yellow, black--------- within that particular tartan does help no end.

No, my kilt in the picture above, is not a genuine "modern ' hue. I had the tartan made for me with a larger sett than normal and with the colours leaning towards the Wilson of Bannockburn colour shades, I will leave it to the experts to discuss how close I have got to it. Anyway, it turned out exactly as I intended.

My other kilt, MacLeod of Harris (ancient), with light brown hose.

[tundramanq]

Although the rest of the tartan would work with the yellow through browns, that golden yellow stripe makes them "go with" without the matchy matchy thing going on.

Matchy matchy looks too much like a uniform. Tried it and got too many of the, "Are you in a band?" type questions.

I usually try to work with the narrow stripes for the hose for just this reason. Then the "eyeball treatment" with the full length mirror and looking for the, "That looks nice!" reaction, from me. It usually gets the same response from the public when out and about.

One of my dyed sock colors is Dylon's "Terracotta" that is almost a dead match for
Walker and Hawkes "Autumn Glow" Shooting Country Kyle Socks. This earth tone seems to work with about any kilt.

https://www.amazon.com/Walker-Hawkes...t%2Bsocks&th=1

[OC Richard]

With what tartan would you wear bright yellow hose?

I would think practically any tartan that didn't a large amount of yellow in it.

It's that distinction between co-ordination and matching.

As far as the "bright" part goes, part of co-ordinating is having colours which have a similar amount of saturation, in other words a colour-scheme would usually be based around either highly saturated colours, or muted colours. Mixing the two can look odd, like wearing an outfit consisting of lovely soft muted earth-colours but wearing Day-Glo shoes with it.

So with Highland Dress if I was wearing a "weathered" tartan, with its soft earthy tones, I might wear muted yellow hose, but not Day-Glo yellow hose.

Jock is following this concept in his outfits above, whether or not he was consciously aware of the theoretical aspects.

These beautiful hose would work with most tartans, I would think



Here's a wide variety of colours, but all of similar saturation, all rather muted:



which is to be contrasted with highly saturated colours (which wouldn't look good with any tartan, I wouldn't think, because the traditional yarns used for tartans don't have this level of saturation)

[tundramanq]

It's that distinction between co-ordination and matching.

As far as the "bright" part goes, part of co-ordinating is having colours which have a similar amount of saturation, in other words a colour-scheme would usually be based around either highly saturated colours, or muted colours. Mixing the two can look odd, like wearing an outfit consisting of lovely soft muted earth-colours but wearing Day-Glo shoes with it.

So with Highland Dress if I was wearing a "weathered" tartan, with its soft earthy tones, I might wear muted yellow hose, but not Day-Glo yellow hose.

Jock is following this concept in his outfits above, whether or not he was consciously aware of the theoretical aspects.
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Very well put OC !

The brightest color will always draw attention to it. In the case of Day-Glo, the rest of you will disappear into the background. I think Day-Glo yellow would only go with something like the fireman's utility kilts with Day-Glo safety stripes. Even the Loud McLeod tartan doesn't use this hot of a yellow.
To me mixing hot and muted color and tones is like wearing a dress shirt, vest, jacket and tie with cut-off ratty jeans. - confusing.

[Jock Scot]

Jock is following this concept in his outfits above, whether or not he was consciously aware of the theoretical aspects.

Am I? I had better confirm to everyone that there is not a conscious thought with my hose choice whatsoever as until I joined this website I had no idea that there were "theoretical aspects".

Perhaps, I should also add that I am not colour blind either. Its simply that I have no artistic training, knowledge, or skill.

[GrainReaper]

I've always been baffled by some color names, this goes all the way back to my crayon coloring days, being color blind makes it a challenge to decipher why a crayon color would be called "burnt sienna" or what have you, (gets worse when labels get peeled off, this lead to a brown colored valentine for my mom), this color blind issue lead me to highland wear as a clothing solution as things don't have to match per day, so now with hose I just reach in my drawer and grab a pair and hope they match...... each other!

[tundramanq]

Burnt Sienna is one that will confound anyone. It is a light to dark reddish-orange to reddish-brown color. It depends on who made it. I remember it in my Crayola box as being an earthtone like a sunburnt face.