Quote Originally Posted by Mike Horah View Post
I like them personally and they help to keep my socks up! While I have flashes to match the three different tartans I wear I also have others - red- black and a check light grey - which can vary the mix and can just as easily be used to match the socks for example. On a black tie evening I may well wear black flashes with black socks .

And( horror of horrors) I have a bespoke leather kilt I had made in imitation of Black Watch in blue and green leather for the pleats and it has blue and green leather flashes. The rules for matching stuff are like any other formal or otherwise clothing ensemble - If you care in any way about it of course - you mix and match to suit your personality the occasion , (the weather!)your own colouring etc And just for a bit of variety. I don't suppose back in the day Highlanders paid too much attention to this . No Scots kilt wearing friends I know seem overly fussed either.

And if you really want to be antique you don't use elastic anyway let alone flashes but cloth ties made of the tartan. There seems to be quite a fashion these days for Jacobite style wear which personally I find quite appealing, but I think belted plaid is not for me!

I do need to get a couple of pairs of classic striped garters to go along with 17th/18thC hose (once I get some of those).