If you could have just one pair of hose, what style would they be? What colour?

This popped into my head the other day, I'm helping a friend get kitted out in his first foray into the kilted world, his budget is tight so I'm helping him where I can, I located him a pre-enjoyed kilt for a song.

I told him many of his shirts will work as nicely with a kilt as with slacks, he picked up a belt with a nice buckle that looks like it should look at home dressed up or down.

He asked about hose and I was stumped...... I started out with bottle green hose that seemed to go nicely with my kilt, and then with my second kilt, but it all changed when I recieved a few pair of hose for my birthday, I now have a good number of hose in many colors, and I'm in the process of stepping up from those lower priced ones into the nicer Lewis hose in similar colours.

So if you could have just one multitasking pair what would it be? I'm thinking some nice chessboard hose or Argyll hose, but what about for a newcomer who might be a ways out before becoming a "hose hoarder" as it were.