HELP! I'm Color Blind and Fashion Challanged!

[MACKAY]

Like most males in my family, I am color blind (colour for our Canadian and UK brothers ) and am seeking advice from my counterparts on coordinating hose and flashes for a Black Watch kilt.

Question: what recommendations are out there for hose and flash color to match a Black Watch kilt? I wear the kilt with black shoes; have a black belt and a black sporran also.

For daywear / casual, I generally have a turtleneck, polo shirt or t-shirt with boots and rolled down socks. What I need is something a bit more formal / semi dress, and thus the question.

If you are as colorblind as I am, then you know exactly the frustration I feel when trying to coordinate colors, especially from a tiny web site picture.

Thanks in advance....

Brian Mackay
'Manu Forti'

[Jimmy Carbomb]

You can ALWAYS get a pair of Blackwatch flashes and never need to worry about it!

You can also tag a pair of green hose with an "X" on the elastic, and the blue ones with an "O".

[MACKAY]

Jimmy ... thanks for the info, I never thought about the Black Watch flashes, for some reason I kept thinking 'solid'.

[philibeg]

I wear either off-white or dark blue hose with bright red flashes (see my gallery).

[macwilkin]

You can't go wrong wi' Oatmeal hose! :mrgreen:

As far as flashes, the Black Watch wear red ones. Nice contrast.

Cheers,

Todd

[MACKAY]

philibeg - awesome flashes in your gallery ... did you make them yourself?

Todd - Great advice as always. And the old smack in me head for "Why didn't I think of that!"

Order has been placed! Oatmeal hose, red flashes!

Brian

[Scotus]

Good choice. That's what I have for my Drummond kilt - oatmeal hose and red flashes. You really can't go wrong. Very smart look.

[macwilkin]

I would be remiss in not correcting myself: The Black Watch wear olive-coloured hose with red flashes, but I think they would work well with oatmeal as well.

Cheers,

Todd

[Casey]

Todd,

I have not seen olive coloured hose. Do you have a source?

[philibeg]

Hey Brian,

I didn't make my garters/flashes myself, I bought them in Scotland (and very expensive they were, too, for what they are!! ...why is Highland dress constantly subjected to such needless mark-up????), but you can make them easily yourself, just look for slightly stretchy, broad (to prevent circulation problems) cloth ribbon...they keep yer socks up very efficiently and have an old-fashioned, pre-elastic-plastic feel about them... I'm an old-fashioned kinda guy! sort-of...