socks

[cavscout]

Price looks good. Only one way to know about the quality

You can also look at Dick's Sporting Goods for their acrylic socker socks. Nice quality and great price. I've got fairly large claves and they fit snug but pretty good.

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...entPage=family

[idezilla]

Price looks good. Only one way to know about the quality

You can also look at Dick's Sporting Goods for their acrylic socker socks. Nice quality and great price. I've got fairly large claves and they fit snug but pretty good.

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...entPage=family

Also, GI Joe's has socker sox, I use them.

Paul - idezilla

[Riverkilt]

Looks like a good deal. I like the inexpensive soccer sox and wear them pushed down. Hard to find colors to match some kilts though, like the tan, basil, caramel UKs and the putty AmeriKilt...still looking though. Thanks for the links guys.


Ron

[Hamish]

Looks like a good deal. I like the inexpensive soccer sox and wear them pushed down. Hard to find colors to match some kilts though, like the tan, basil, caramel UKs and the putty AmeriKilt...still looking though. Thanks for the links guys.


Ron

Ron, with respect, for best effect your hose/socks should 'compliment' or 'tone with' the colour of your kilt rather than 'match' it. Too much of the same colour is not a particularly good idea.

General comment on rugby/soccer socks: The one problem with these, as I see it, is that because they are so thin the observer can see the colour of the wearer's calves through them - especially with the darker colours. Personally, I find this a great turn-off and would only wear them if I could roll them down, with boots ........... in which case, they are not really thick enough to look good worn in that way!!!

So, for me, this type of sock does not work with the kilt.

Just my opinion!

[Archangel]

Ron, with respect, for best effect your hose/socks should 'compliment' or 'tone with' the colour of your kilt rather than 'match' it. Too much of the same colour is not a particularly good idea.

General comment on rugby/soccer socks: The one problem with these, as I see it, is that because they are so thin the observer can see the colour of the wearer's calves through them - especially with the darker colours. Personally, I find this a great turn-off and would only wear them if I could roll them down, with boots ........... in which case, they are not really thick enough to look good worn in that way!!!

So, for me, this type of sock does not work with the kilt.

Just my opinion!

my opinion also, found that Eddie Buaer had a good colour choice for short socks, best of hitting Piper supply shops for long kilt socks.

[Riverkilt]

Thanks Ham,

God I love this board!

I agree about the sox...probably should have said "go with" instead of match...thanks for pointing that out though...have been pretty much going monochromatic with the kilt, now, with sage advice, looking at other colors.

Soccer Socks don't work for me when pulled up...just look wrong. They do seem okay to me when pushed down/bunched up with tennis shoes. Too hot out here in the summer for boots all day long.

Actually starting to look forward to cooler days so I can wear my regular, designed for that job, kilt hose.

Ron

[Barb T]

Ron, with respect, for best effect your hose/socks should 'compliment' or 'tone with' the colour of your kilt rather than 'match' it. Too much of the same colour is not a particularly good idea.

General comment on rugby/soccer socks: The one problem with these, as I see it, is that because they are so thin the observer can see the colour of the wearer's calves through them - especially with the darker colours. Personally, I find this a great turn-off and would only wear them if I could roll them down, with boots ........... in which case, they are not really thick enough to look good worn in that way!!!

So, for me, this type of sock does not work with the kilt.

Just my opinion!

I agree, at least for trad kilts. A trad kilt is a substantial garment that I think needs to be balanced with substantial socks. Of course climate is an issue, but I think that the kilt hose with the big bulky tops (and a no see-through look) balance a kilt better than thin hose.

I know I posted this pic on another thread, but I think it illustrates what I mean and I don't have another different picture that's better. Both the tartan hose and the black hose have tops that are long enough to be rolled over twice, giving a nice, balancing cuff. Just my opinion, though!




Barb

[Riverkilt]

Rolled over TWICE.....Thanks Barb ....see what a great board this is...I'm out here in the hinterlands and have wondered WHY the kilt hose was soooo long, thinking I was just supposed to roll it over once...

Now I know!!....soooo many little things to learn.

Sensing there might be a market for some of our experts to combine and form an online "Kilt School" with a certificate of completion of a whole bunch of courses on kilts....history, construction, wearing...including color coordination of accessories...

Visions of tartan mortarboard caps at graduation...

Ron

[bubba]

The Tartan University ;)

[Hamish]

Rolled over TWICE.....Thanks Barb ....see what a great board this is...I'm out here in the hinterlands and have wondered WHY the kilt hose was soooo long, thinking I was just supposed to roll it over once...

Ron

For as long as I can remember (well, for the past 55 years - since I have been wearing the kilt), I have always worn my kilt hose double-folded at the top. It is really a matter of folding down by twice the 'cuff' you want, and then folding half of that back up. Unfortunately, a few brands of hose - especially those in thick acryllic - are not long enough to make this double fold.