Gentlemen and dudes,

I am intending for this picture collection to be an encouragement to those thinking about branching out from white/cream/ecru hose into the wide wild world of colored hose.

As a jeans/ Carharts/ camo guy from just before my kilted days began, I find lovat blue hose "go" with almost everything I own. Indeed if I have chosen a shirt, or a tie, or even both and my wife says, "are you going kilted today?" invariably my first thought is "this shirt and tie will work just fine with lovat blue hose." The greater challenge for me now is choosing a color of hose other than lovat blue, just for the sport of it.

Please do add pictures of your own, I don't have, for instance, a red kilt at all and I know lovat blue hose work great with red kilts. Likewise my looks tend to the more casual end of the accepted spectrum, certainly please do feel free to elevate lovat blue hose to dressy day wear and smart day wear and so forth.

Also, if you would care to start a similar thread about some other hose color, I humbly ask that you inculde the word serenade in the thread title for the convenience of future search button users.

Without further ado:

When I ordered my first tank I had a thread about hose colors, and read lots of other threads about hose colors and took a flier on having a pair of lovat blue hose without having any idea how they were really going to work for me. I took the rabble's word for it so to speak. This is the first picture ever of me in my then new tank:



EDIT: these are actually "ancient blue" hose from the House of Cheviot Lewis line, it is close enough to the same darn color as lovat blue.