Very nice!
It's so interesting to me to look through MacLeay and Victorian photos and see how oftentimes they both tell the same tale, while in certain regards there's a disconnect between the two.
One of those things is hose. In The Highlanders Of Scotland most of the hose seen are tartan or diced, in the main they're the same as we have today. There are tartan and diced hose with marl cuffs, something not often seen nowadays. And there are selfcoloured hose, grey, taupe, or brick, often with contrasting cuffs.
And there's this interesting pair of hose, neither diced nor tartan, but an overcheck one might say, blue and red overcheck over grey.
The odd thing is that Victorian photos show a number of hose styles which aren't in The Highlanders Of Scotland.
One style is hose with hoops, with horizontal stripes. From photographic evidence they were fairly common in Victorian times.
Another style is what you have there, hose with pairs of stripes. There are none in The Highlanders Of Scotland but plenty in 19th century photos.
Last edited by OC Richard; 12th September 20 at 04:39 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
