Another hoses question

[Dr Bee]

And when white hose became anathema in the Pipe Band world so did they become declassee with discerning kiltwearers in general.

It's possible that I've not managed to meet every discerning kilt-wearer in Scotland - at least not yet - but I have yet to meet one wearing white hose - by which I mean actual white as opposed to cream or ecru. And for that reason I felt and still feel quite justified in saying that white hose are anathema - but they didn't become anathema - they've always been anathema.

It should be pointed out that the sub-species "discerning kilt-wearer in Scotland" probably does not include children at weddings, nor would it necessarily include every member of the kilt-wearing brigade at Murrayfield, nor would it include many of the actually kilted members of Ally's Tartan Army or their present-day descendants. It's quite possible that these groups wear white hose all the time - if so, they render themselves undiscerning by definition.