Old photo find

[Panache]

Sanford and Glen,

I fully understand how very nice (and traditional) diced hose are with formal wear. It's just a pity that diced hose are so very expensive (though I do assume they are well worth the expense).

I personally don't like black hose with formal wear and most colors of hose seem informal to me.

I see white hose as a modern take on the black and white of a standard tux outfit. Therefore an acceptable alternative.

But, as Todd is always saying, "different horses for different courses"

Cheers

Jamie

[McClef]

Be interesting to see when all the white hose crept in - I have read a claim that they were brought in by the kilt hire establishments.

I know that GT sells ex hire hose and it's all white.

[Big Paul]

I love the old kilt pics!

[McMurdo]

Sanford and Glen,

I fully understand how very nice (and traditional) diced hose are with formal wear. It's just a pity that diced hose are so very expensive (though I do assume they are well worth the expense).

I personally don't like black hose with formal wear and most colors of hose seem informal to me.

I see white hose as a modern take on the black and white of a standard tux outfit. Therefore an acceptable alternative.

But, as Todd is always saying, "different horses for different courses"

Cheers

Jamie

That is why I said that we will have to agree to disagree, Jamie, you have a wonderful sense of style if you feel that white hose are appropriate by all means go ahead and wear them. As for me I've been lucky enough to find good prices for diced, and tartan hose, and yes they are worth it.

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

I found this interesting picture on the Clan Cameron site


The caption reads:
1972:Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, K.T., XXVI Chief of Clan Cameron (third from right) along with the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, at the 1972 International Gathering of the Clans, which took place at the Royal Highland Show in Ingliston, Scotland

There appears to be white hose in that photo. So I guess it was prior to 1972 that white hose started to be come popular or available.
Sara

[Thunderbolt]

Some of those are VERY white hose!

T.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Some of those are VERY white hose!

T.

Photoshop ?

[ThistleDown]

Something else I though bears mentioning, I was looking through the photos again, and even though the photos I posted were from the Bonnie Prince Charlie Bicentenial, every man there has a Black cockade on his balmoral, the one listed as unidentified has a white ribbon on his lapel, however his cockade is still black. As the question regarding white cockades comes up from time to time, I thought it was worth a mention.

Thank you, Glen. I have never seen a white cockade worn by a Scot in Scotland.

[ThistleDown]

I found this interesting picture on the Clan Cameron site


The caption reads:
1972:Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, K.T., XXVI Chief of Clan Cameron (third from right) along with the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, at the 1972 International Gathering of the Clans, which took place at the Royal Highland Show in Ingliston, Scotland

There appears to be white hose in that photo. So I guess it was prior to 1972 that white hose started to be come popular or available.
Sara

No doubt you are correct, Sara. I wore white (read "natural") prior to '72, for sure. They were knitted at home. My family did not wear machine-made pure white skinny sheaths, however, we wore wool to keep us warm and sometimes that wool was even dyed before it was knitted. Or so I must surmise because the remnants of those days (and my father's days before me) I still have are in some pretty awful shades of red, blue and orange (!!!!)

[ThistleDown]

I see white hose as a modern take on the black and white of a standard tux outfit. Therefore an acceptable alternative.

But, as Todd is always saying, "different horses for different courses"

Cheers

Jamie

"A white sports coat and a pink carnation..."

Just fashion phases. Not right, not wrong, but just for now.