Hose/Flashes with tall boots?

[tripleblessed]

Something that might be relevant here. As an actor, I found that costume affected presentation; that is, if I was struggling to get the character, sometimes changing the shoes or clothing pushed me to move in a different way, and that allowed a more appropriate revealing of the character. When I found myself sliding down the road with 600lbs. of motorcycle attempting to push my ankle through the pavement, I was inordinately grateful for tall boots and the extra few seconds they bought me to get out from under to on top of it before I started losing bone.

My point is that clothing choices have many motivations, and THCD is only one of a whole spectrum of reasons. Sometimes you just want tall boots. Sometimes you just want a kilt. Sometimes you just feel like wearing your Stetson with the feathered hatband. It might all happen on the same day. I don't feel motivated to be responsible for any other person's choices, and I won't apologize for my own. I certainly don't choose with an eye to offending
anyone, any more than does the Duke of Argyll. I DO appreciate knowing
what everyone thinks, to help inform choices.

As English Bloke points out, either kilts are modern clothing, or they are
costume wear only for ceremony and only for Scots.

[Nighthawk]

In that case, why not go bare-legged (as the "Scots of old"), or perhaps hide-out/fur-in deerskin shoes? In either case (Renaissance Festival or regular kilted wear) it doesn't seem like the tall boots would really fit.

If the OP is bound and determined, though, to wear these tall boots, then I agree that wearing kilt hose and flashes would just add to the confusion.

It's funny- I read this after making my post! My friends joke about their Rennie burns, which are the sunburns the ladies get on their chests. I joke with them about my Rennie burn- which I get on my feet! If the festival is in grass, I go barefoot!

Here's an excellent example of what a Scottish Highlander of the late Renaissance (meaning early 1600's) would have looked like. The shoes are just hides roughly sewn together, and very similar to those... gaellies? Is that the vendor was calling them?

As English Bloke points out, either kilts are modern clothing, or they are
costume wear only for ceremony and only for Scots.

That's no more true of kilts than of pants. This pair of pants, for example, is no longer worn in the mainstream:



However, if you're a Revolutionary War era reenactor, they are very appropriate. Same holds true of the kilt. It was worn in a different way in the 1650's than it is today, and if you're portraying a person from that time period, then like pants, the kilt does in fact become costume. Does that all kilts are costumes? Of course not! It's all about context.