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12th October 06, 04:08 PM
#1
What do flashes mean? Newbe Question alert!
Newbe question, What do the flashes signify? What purpose do they serve?
Thanks in advance.
Kevin
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12th October 06, 04:21 PM
#2
 Originally Posted by Oatmeal Savage
Newbe question, What do the flashes signify? What purpose do they serve?
To the best of my knowledge, they don't "signify" anything at all.
They're representative of the ribbons/garters used to hold up the hose in an earlier time - my own garters for "historical costume" are strips of tartan left over from making the moggans (footless stockings, made from tartan cut on the bias).
Today, the garters are elastic, and the flashes are purely decorative.
Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum:
Grata supervenient, quae non sperabitur hora.
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12th October 06, 04:23 PM
#3
They used to be the ends of the piece of ribbon that you used to tie up your hose. Now they are nothing more than extra little splashes of color. Simply two tabs strung onto the elastic used as a garter to hold the kilt hose from bagging and slipping down.
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12th October 06, 05:05 PM
#4
Originally Posted by Caradoc
... the flashes are purely decorative.
I don't know about you but with my skinny legs they really help to keep the kilt hose from ending up bunched around my ankles.! I'd say that was functional.
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12th October 06, 05:06 PM
#5
Originally Posted by Caradoc
To the best of my knowledge, they don't "signify" anything at all.
They're representative of the ribbons/garters used to hold up the hose in an earlier time - my own garters for "historical costume" are strips of tartan left over from making the moggans (footless stockings, made from tartan cut on the bias).
Today, the garters are elastic, and the flashes are purely decorative.
Yes, Caradoc is correct.
Clan Lamont!
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12th October 06, 05:53 PM
#6
Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
I don't know about you but with my skinny legs they really help to keep the kilt hose from ending up bunched around my ankles.! I'd say that was functional.
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Me too. My hose won't stay up without them.
Sir John the Educated of West Smeesborough
MacIntosh - by choice, and blood
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12th October 06, 05:57 PM
#7
Originally Posted by Oatmeal Savage
Newbe question, What do the flashes signify? What purpose do they serve?
They draw the gaze of the passerby to our shapely calves... :rolleyes:
They are much like a cumberbund on a tuxedo, something whose original function is lost with the passage of time, but the outfit just looks better with it.
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12th October 06, 06:00 PM
#8
Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
they really help to keep the kilt hose from ending up bunched around my ankles.! I'd say that was functional.
That'd be a function of the garter that the flashes are attached to - not the flashes themselves.
Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum:
Grata supervenient, quae non sperabitur hora.
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