Color Advice for Argyl Hose

[IRISH]

my mother is going to knit me a pair of argyl hose, but i'm clueless about color scheme. i want to coordinate them with my ferguson modern kilt which features fields of deep blue and forest green and stripes of red and white.

do i want the hose to match the kilt or provide a bit of contrast? i don't know.

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

regards.

[The Barry]

There's no right answer to this.. Actually, there's no wrong answer to this, within reason.

You have blue, green, red and white to work with. You can either do something obvious, like I did, and get the hose knit with the tartan pattern. Or, you could do some really cool things with just two or three of the colors. I would suggest using green or blue as the main color, and striping with red and/or white.

The one "cool" idea that comes to mind is a bit loud, but it might work. Use the red as the main color of the hose, and argyle up some cool striping with the green, blue and the white. It may not work at all, but it's worth doing some photoshop work to see if you might like the look.

If noting else, your hose would seriously stand out and be taken notice of, that's for sure!

[Snowbear]

Tartan hose really stands out, but for a more plain hose I would try to make a pair with a single vertical stripe in your kilts main color along the outseride of the hose. Seen that once and really loved it

[ForresterModern]

You might want to do a search for "tartan hose" to get a variety of pictures of other folks tartan hose (argyle style) on the forum. Generally Argyle style hose are knit in the colors of the tartan they are to be worn with, with the large diamonds colored as the background dominant colors of the tartan (also known as the underchesk) and the narrow lines done in the colors of the thinner stripes of the tartan (known as the overcheck). Some tartans have more than two undercheck colors and they have to do what are called "split dice" to accomodate all the colors in the hose. But usually they are done in the various colors that are in teh tartan rather than in complementary ones. Dancers hose are usually done in a combination of white with the dominant color of the tartan, but dancers tartans are usually dress tartans that contain white anyway.

Nice that your mother is going to knit them for you, as they usually cost $150-200+US. Is she looking to adopt any part time sons, to allow her to expand her knitting opportunities?

[IRISH]

Nice that your mother is going to knit them for you, as they usually cost $150-200+US. Is she looking to adopt any part time sons, to allow her to expand her knitting opportunities?

she's a knitting monster! she cranked out a knit and felted tam for me in about 5 hours last friday for me to wear in a sunday st patrick's day parade. i'm very lucky, indeed.

[starbkjrus]

You might want to think about a nice combination of cream and white. With a matching tartan flat cap.

Ok, I'll go back to my rock and return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

[piperdbh]

Tartan flat cap? Should it be armigerous? And maybe have a dandelion in it?

Regarding tartan/Argyle hose: The above-mentioned advice about dominant colors and such is what's usually seen, and hose worked in blue, green and red would go with several different tartans, including my Lockhart. You might consider, just for contrast, that the diamonds be worked in red and white, with blue or green stripes. That would contrast very nicely, I think, but still contain the tartan colors.
Please post pics when you decide what to do. I'm going to make myself some tartan hose one of these days.

[IRISH]

i'm going to be wearing them to semiformal charity dinner with a kilt cut black jacket. i'm wondering if a red stocking body will be too loud. i'm leaning towards the red body with blue, green and white top.

if a link to a one stop gallery destination for argyl hose, i'd love to look at other ideas.

[svc40bt]

Here are mine with my Hunting MacLeod modern:



For your Ferguson modern you could simply substitute white for the yellow.

[IRISH]

For your Ferguson modern you could simply substitute white for the yellow.

true, svc. thanks.