Personal Rules when Wearing Hose

[highlander999]

I must Age Diel, I like the cream hose with the MacGregor Tartan... My new (now to find out NOT) MacGregor Hunting Tartan....

And one from the rear... Is the kilt too long???

[beloitpiper]

Cream when really casual (boots instead of shoes), colored the rest of the time, argyle for formal.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

never wear white/cream except in black tie

Never wear white/creme... Full Stop... Unless...

you want people to think you've rented your outfit, you are a member of a pipe band and you are in uniform, or you have a tropical foot disease.

[Leprechaun 91]

I don't wear hose. I just try to match my crocks to my wife heater... LOL

I have to say that there are no hard rules for me. I do like the idea of trying to compliment the kilt. matching to a stripe with the flashes is not something I have tried, but it sounds like it would look great.

I really never have gone for the Khaki shirt and hose. I always feel like I'm in uniform or something. I like the look on others. Just.... not on me.

[piperdbh]

My tartan, Lockhart, is predominantly navy and dark green, with a 4-thread red stripe. I have hose in all those colors, in addition to white and cream/off white. I usually wear the white ones when I play the 'pipes for a funeral. If I'm playing a wedding or something, I like to wear the red ones. I don't wear the blue or green ones much at all, and I haven't worn the off-white in a couple of years. I bought them in Salzburg, Austria, by the way, so they're not really kilt hose. The ones I just finished knitting are a sort of dark red, and I just turned the heel on a royal blue sock that I might turn into Saltire hose, with white Xs in the leg.
More info than you wanted, but that's my story.

[Mike in Dayton]

I tend to do as Ozman1944 does by matching hose with shirt. My problem is finding a variety of hose color. That limits what I have available. Right now I have black, dark blue, dark green, Oatmeal. I find I am picking the shirt to match what limited hose color I have.

Mike

[NorCalPiper]

Diced hose....Take the 2 prominent colors, and take a lesser color for the flashes...DICED HOSE ALL THE TIME!

[Zardoz]

I vote for giving kilt hose their own sub forum!

[LewisG]

The tartan I usually wear is primarily red with blue and white stripes. For casual wear, I usually wear blue hose with red fashes. I wear cream or off white hose for dressy or formal wear in the evening.

[svc40bt]

I vote for giving kilt hose their own sub forum!

Seems apropriate given the attention hose have gotten so far this year.