Hose to Kilt Combo

[COScotsman]

2024 St Andrews Day dinner with the Scottish Society of SE Wyoming was held last Saturday in Cheyenne. I paired the Angel's Share tartan with steel blue hose (not shown) to accent the blue stripe in the tartan. Kilt made by our own Barbara Tewksbury. Pics aren't the best quality but you get the idea.


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[FossilHunter]

2024 St Andrews Day dinner with the Scottish Society of SE Wyoming was held last Saturday in Cheyenne. I paired the Angel's Share tartan with steel blue hose (not shown) to accent the blue stripe in the tartan. Kilt made by our own Barbara Tewksbury.


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I think blue was probably the best choice.

[EagleJCS]

Admin: pls delete this post as it is useless without the pic.

The pic is attached to the thread at the forum subsection level. (Paper clip at the far right of the thread link.) To get the pic to appear in your post, you need to insert image (second row of buttons) instead of attach the picture.

[jsrnephdoc]

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.

Almost everywhere else I've read (or watched; e.g., on USA Kilts's monthly Kilts and Culture videos, the typical advice is to pair the hose with a dominant color in the kilt and/or jacket/vest/sweater/whatever.

The guys at USA Kilts are also not fond of recent trends that seem to favor white or cream colored hose for formal (Prince Charlie or doublet) occasions.

I kilt when I can, but I'm virtually always the sole person so attired at any gathering so I'm flying blind except from looking at website pictures.

[Jock Scot]

Almost everywhere else I've read (or watched; e.g., on USA Kilts's monthly Kilts and Culture videos, the typical advice is to pair the hose with a dominant color in the kilt and/or jacket/vest/sweater/whatever.

The guys at USA Kilts are also not fond of recent trends that seem to favor white or cream colored hose for formal (Prince Charlie or doublet) occasions.

I kilt when I can, but I'm virtually always the sole person so attired at any gathering so I'm flying blind except from looking at website pictures.

Just so you know, the traditional kilt-wearer in Scotland almost never wear black, white or cream coloured hose.That is more of a kilt hire outfit look. Most don't match or, even think about it, their hose to anything and various shades of red, greens, browns, blues and yellows are the usual choices for our hose and no real thought is given to matching anything else, although by accident they might match something else that might be being worn at the time.
For example my tartan has blue, green, red, black and yellow within it so its quite difficult to find hose that doesn't match something! The answer? Don't bother worrying about it!

[FossilHunter]

Just so you know, the traditional kilt-wearer in Scotland almost never wear black, white or cream coloured hose.That is more of a kilt hire outfit look. Most don't match or, even think about it, their hose to anything and various shades of red, greens, browns, blues and yellows are the usual choices for our hose and no real thought is given to matching anything else, although by accident they might match something else that might be being worn at the time.
For example my tartan has blue, green, red, black and yellow within it so its quite difficult to find hose that doesn't match something! The answer? Don't bother worrying about it!

I believe you often wear mustard or claret hose which, perhaps unintentionally, match some of the minor colors in Macleod of Harris but in a non-matching shade. I think this often creates a nice look.

Matching without matching as it were.

That’s not to take away from your notion of not worrying too much about the hose color.

[Jock Scot]

Yes you are quite right, I do often unintentionally match my hose to one of the colours in my kilt and I suppose the shades of colour may differ a tad? It is though an entirely unconscious act. I just go to the wardrobe and grab the first pair of hose that comes to hand. Until I joined this website all those years ago, I never even gave it a thought!

I suppose I could wear white or black hose? Well alright, perhaps not! Now that I think about it, black is a non starter, as that matches a stripe in my tartan too! Various shades of Brown perhaps? Oh to the devil with it, I shall just carry on carrying on as I have always done and not bother about it. :lol

[OC Richard]

Almost everywhere else I've read (or watched; e.g., on USA Kilts's monthly Kilts and Culture videos, the typical advice is to pair the hose with a dominant color in the kilt and/or jacket.

With Jock Scot here you get the tradition-based Highland Scottish view of things.

With me you get the historical view on things (when wearing my Historian Hat) or the view grounded in standard colour and design concepts (when wearing my Art Degree/Art Department Hat).

With USA Kilts you get the current American view.

The truth is that in Highland Dress the concept of matching jacket and hose to the colours of the kilt has never existed. Anyone who proposed that is speaking from their own ideas, not of Highland Scottish ideas, nor of standard art design ideas.

Now putting on my Art Department hat, and purely speaking from a design standpoint, matching never works.

You wouldn't decorate the interior of your house having the walls, carpet, all furniture, all artwork on the walls the same colour.

The trick is to co-ordinate, which is the diametric opposite of match. That's why when you go to the paint section they'll have brochures giving three-colour paint schemes.

Three-colour schemes are also standard in fashion, and a Highland outfit can be viewed from a fashion standpoint (though as I said this isn't traditional).

With a Highland outfit you have three main bands of colour: jacket, kilt, hose. Co-ordinating these means NONE of them matching.

Now to put my Historian Hat on, there is indeed a longstanding practice in Highland Day Dress to match the tweed of the jacket to the hose colour. (The designer would balk at this! You have three colour-blocks, design revolves around "rules of three", why throw away one of the three?)

Yet, going back to Victorian times up through the 1960s there was a longstanding idea of matching tweed and hose. Articles about Highland Dress mention this over and over, and it's seen in countless paintings and photographs.

Here starting in the 1860s are fifteen examples of men matching their hose colour to their tweed jacket colour

[Jock Scot]

I think the handmedown culture is still alive and well in Scotland, so I think that approximate fit is more important than colour and always has been. So we have become accustomed to seeing many and various colours of hose/tweed worn with the kilt over the years. So much so, now we experienced traditional types don't even notice or bother about it.

You chaps who are outwith Scotland are used to wearing and seeing brand new and new to you kilt attire and apply modern day colour matching thoughts. Its hardly surprising that the new modern day kilt wearer within Scotland and outwith Scotland are confused!