Personal Rules when Wearing Hose

[Carolina Kiltman]

As others have said, it is the total look that counts! I wear off-white for Highland dancing with flashes of the same tartan as my kilt. That shows off the laces of the dancing gillies . Otherwise I often wear coloured. I pick colours that match or complement the colours in the Kilt. For dress, I use diced hose in red and green (colours in my dress kilt). As always it is a matter of making the total picture look good.

[mexpiper]

well it depends on what i feel like... i have the following colored kilt hose, Brown, Black, Green, light blue, Dark Blue(just bought them at the Syracuse/Central NY HG last weekend). I try to match them to what color i feel like when i put the kilt on (depends on the colors in the kilt). Lately I have been staying with the black hose.

I have 2 pairs of cream, that have a thistle, and a rampant lion on them. I also have a white pair!
My wish list is for Gray and Red!

[turpin]

I wear what's clean

[Nick the DSM]

I wear what's clean

LOL, me too. If it doesn't smell funky- its good!

but I'd make sure it matched.

[TheKiltedWonder]

LOL, me too. If it doesn't smell funky- its good!

but I'd make sure it matched.

Um, if they're both clean, then they're matching right? Or is there more to this whole fashion thing???


As for hose, I only have cream at the moment, but I'm waiting on some black and bottle green ones from the Scottish Tartans Museum. I think they'll both look grand with my green-heavy kilt (MacNeil of Barra)

[Tim Little]

As with Ted Crocker, my only hose at the moment are the cream-colored pair I bought when I put together my PC outfit for my wedding. I'll wear these w. black flashes when the event is black-tie. With a Mackenzie modern kilt and a black muskrat sporran, the overall look is a bit dark but hopefully somewhat sophisticated.

Now that I also own a navy Argyll (technically Braemar?) jacket, I really need to get a pair navy hose to go with. (As many have said, matching a dominant color of the tartan and also the color of the aforementioned jacket.) Somewhere along the way I managed to acquire a pair of red flashes (which I currently wear with the cream hose and said Argyll) matching the red stripes in the tartan and keeping the informal look a bit peppier.

[Bugbear]

As with Ted Crocker, my only hose at the moment are the cream-colored pair I bought when I put together my PC outfit for my wedding. ...

Well... Someday I'll have brown Lewis hose. That would be for a daywear outfit I have been putting together: brown corduroy jacket/waistcoat and Weathered 1/2 Lamont.

I do have thick gray, knee high socks with a cable pattern and a red band at the top. They're alright for casual in my Nightstalker I guess.

[Cawdorian]

I wear what's clean

That is a very good rule to follow. This should be Kilt Hose Rule No. 1.

[Carolina Kiltman]

In my University days we had the rule: Throw it at the wall. . . . if it doesn't stick, wear it.

[The Barry]

In my University days we had the rule: Throw it at the wall. . . . if it doesn't stick, wear it.

Hey, that's my rule too!