"Viking Style" Brouge lacing?

[OC Richard]

What sparked this discussion really was viewing this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hvHeTArCnYQ - showing groups of Scottish country dancers of which the majority of the men taking part are obviously wearing the dreaded white socks.

That video is from 11 years ago, when white socks hadn't yet become unfashionable in some circles.

Fashions come and go, and with Highland Dress the thing that changes most often are the hose.

White hose suddenly became standard in kilt hire and the pipe band world and with many other kiltwearers in the late 1980s into the early 1990s only to become suddenly out of fashion around 2010.

(I'm talking the pure gleaming white hose, not the ecru/cream/offwhite hose which were in fashion for the 15 years or so prior to the pure white hose replacing them.)

[Ivor]

That video is from 11 years ago, when white socks hadn't yet become unfashionable in some circles.

Fashions come and go, and with Highland Dress the thing that changes most often are the hose.

White hose suddenly became standard in kilt hire and the pipe band world and with many other kiltwearers in the late 1980s into the early 1990s only to become suddenly out of fashion around 2010.

I really don’t wish to harp on about white hose as such fairly trivial matters seem to attract
attention out of all proportion to their importance. To put this into context, however, I am presently enjoying a New Year break at a well known Scottish hotel where virtually every kilted person is wearing, yes you’ve guessed it, white socks😵*💫.
I have resisted the temptation to point out to them the error of their ways, principally because they are bigger than me but also because, quite frankly, it is none of my business how they choose to dress, even if they asked. So there you are. Many Scottish people, in Scotland, wearing kilts and obviously none of whom have heard of the antipathy towards white socks.