I always enjoy a good white hose 'rammy'* (as we say in this part of the world) and this opportunity to round off the year is not one to be missed. Not coming from a background where your dress was prescribed by a written code and where even your very thoughts were regimented in a particular direction, I have had the luxury of forming my own choices as to what I wear and how I wear it. White, although not strictly defined to be a colour, is, nevertheless, generally regarded as such. That any one individual should then decide that one particular colour from the spectrum of shades available must on no account be worn surely belies belief but that is the fact that we all must face.
I think we all now know that old story about the kilt-hire companies foisting white hose upon us as a cheap option, although I do recall kilt-hire in the 1960's coming with tartan hose (and a shoulder plaid). The only assumption I can make from this is that wearing white (or off-white) hose smacks to the beholder as the wearer being a cheapskate who can't afford his own outfit and that the beholder may condescendingly look down upon such a tainted individual in the way that such snobs have done since time immemorial. We can imagine stone age man looking down upon his neanderthal neighbour because the animal skin wrapped around him was too short or some other feature allowed him to feign superiority over another human being. It is human nature after all - Burns wrote of it in 'The man's a man for a that' and everyone will have experienced it at some time or another.
I think what I am trying to say is that every individual should have the freedom to make their own choices as to how they dress and that no-one has the right to criticise their choice provided that it does not offend the generally accepted standards of decency within society. I can well imagine the type of reaction certain individuals might display at someone in white hose not being 'one of us' or 'who let the hoi-polloi in' but that is a deficiency in their character and outlook and not one I could ever espouse. So there you have it

*rammy (Scots) - a free-for-all, a disturbance, scuffle