Two Kilts, One Good pair of hose

[Dr Bee]

Since I don't know what you pay for good hose in the States, this might sound a bit cheeky - but it's not meant to be. Most seasoned kilt-wearers will have many pairs of hose. After stopping to count I find currently I have ten pairs of kilt hose - three lovat (green, blue and 'oatmeal'), four pairs of dark (navy, claret, green and black), two pairs of diced (dark green/black and lovat green/lovat blue) and one pair of cream or ecru.

The rules for wearing are not set in stone and can be roundly bent on a whim - but the lovats tend to be for casual kilt or for day-wear with a tweed jacket. The darks are for more formal day-wear but might be worn as evening-wear if it's what I fancy. The diced hose are for evening wear and which pair I would wear would depend on how I felt about the combination of kilt and jacket. The ecru hose are as a rule not worn and are only kept for some kind of imaginary emergency where only cream hose will do - thankfully this never happens.

For day-wear I tend to stick with ancient red flashes and for formal or evening-wear I have a selection of blues, greens, black and scarlet. New kilts come with tartan flashes these days - I never wear them as I consider them to be a fashion fad.