Hose to Kilt Combo

[COScotsman]

Thoughts about best hose colour with the Angels Share tartan. The 16oz weave is a bit more amber than golden like the 13oz. Pic wouldn't load....sorry.

[MacKenzie]

https://thetartanartisan.com/pages/t...ky-tartan-kilt

Black/charcoal/gray, lovat blue, navy blue, brown/weathered brown/buffalo, gold/goldenrod/burnt yellow.

ETA: This is one case where "whatever ya got in the drawer" may not work. I'm looking at you claret and anything green.

[EagleJCS]

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[Jock Scot]

Thoughts about best hose colour with the Angels Share tartan. The 16oz weave is a bit more amber than golden like the 13oz. Pic wouldn't load....sorry.

Any colour you like, apart from white or black will be fine.

[OC Richard]

My standard advice is to avoid any of the tartan's main colours, in the accessories.

Looking at the photos (which as EagleJCS says is possible) I would say avoid at all costs the three colours that dominate the tartan: yellow, orange, and brown.

Being that black, white, and grey aren't colours they neither clash with nor compliment/coordinate with any tartan.

Thus the "safe" choice, as always, is grey. But if you do want to compliment the tartan the "safe" choice would be blue hose, being that blue looks to be the 3rd or 4th most prominent colour in the tartan.

Also we can turn to colour-theory: the tartan is more or less mustard yellow, blue and orange are complimentary colours. It's also good to get a warm/cool thing going: yellow and orange are 'warm' colours and blue is a 'cool' colour.

I'm with MacKenzie- a tartan as intense as this calls for restraint in the accessories.

[CBH]

i just found that tartan. Did you already purchase one ?

Did it fit as expected ?

I like the story and the look very much.

[COScotsman]

i just found that tartan. Did you already purchase one ?

Did it fit as expected ?

I like the story and the look very much.

I have been on the waiting list for about a year now with The Tartan Artisan. Lochcarron is set to run the 16oz weight tartan sometime this month. Paid my deposit....just waiting the the start-up. Barbara Tewksbury is putting it together for me. Hoping to have it by St Andrews Day if all goes well.

[CBH]

Barbara Tewksbury is putting it together for me. Hoping to have it by St Andrews Day if all goes well.

Nice !!

So they sold you the tartan cloth ?

The web site said they had exclusive rights to sell the pattern, and did not appear to offer the option of cloth only.

Having your own tailor do the measurements (or use yours on file) and assembly would clearly be preferred to having Artistry try their own hand at the measurements you typed into the "Buy" page of the web site.

[COScotsman]

Nice !!

So they sold you the tartan cloth ?

The web site said they had exclusive rights to sell the pattern, and did not appear to offer the option of cloth only.

Having your own tailor do the measurements (or use yours on file) and assembly would clearly be preferred to having Artistry try their own hand at the measurements you typed into the "Buy" page of the web site.

My original kilt maker here in the States retired during that wait time but thankfully I was able to find Barbara who was willing to work with TA to get the metre length for a kilt. I had my measurements ready to go from a recent kilt I had made last year.

[OC Richard]

The web site said they had exclusive rights to sell the pattern...

Soon enough, if not already, they'll be weaving it in Pakistan in their nasty "acrylic wool".

They're a selling a Glen Affric knockoff already. It only took them a few weeks.