What's Your Position on Flashes?

[Mael Coluim]

I use to wear them at 9 & 6, but now 10 & 2. Why? Advice given by Mr. M. A. C. Newsome here stating they are more easily seen.

[Nighthawk]

Personally, it all depends on the situation for me. If I'm at work, I wear them at 9 and 3, just because that looks a little more casual to me. If my wife and I are going out to dinner or to a semi formal or formal event, it's 10 and 2. 10 and 2 is more traditional from what I've read, so in formal settings, I care a little more, whereas with my just-barely-more-evolved-than-apes co-workers, there is no one worth impressing and no need to stand on protocol. I find them to be more comfortable centered.

[Livingston]

Basically, I stand between them.

Ok, I wear them centered at about 9 and 3. Just seems right to me but I can understand the 10 and 2 positions too.

[SteveB]

I wear them at 9 & 3. They do not get caught on the turnstyle when entering the T. Also keeps em clear of the escalator rubbers on crowded days. The 10 & 2 is the adjustment at the formal event, then back to 9 & 3 for the trip home.

[Clockwork John]

I wear mine at 10 and 2, or there abouts. I like up the edge of the front flash with the edge of my shin bone.

[emolas]

I wear mine at 10 and 2 as well, it increases the viewing angle. At 3 and 9 you can't see them from the front.

[IndianaGentry]

While in Edinburgh, Scotland last year, I bought hose and flashes at Hector Russell. I asked this very question, and was told that it was a matter of preference. There is no right or wrong.

I was told that men with large calves (like me) tend to wear them to the outside, which I believe you are describing as "9 & 3". Guys with smaller calves wear them in more of the "10 & 2" that you described simply because they don't have as much leg down there.