A Modern-Day Duke in Scabal: His Grace the Duke of Argyll

[artificer]

I agree completely, Matt. It is quite understandable that the 'dusty' pink colour does not work well with every tartan, nor for every taste, but it looks especially smart with its complimentray colour of green, shown in this case, in the Campbell tartan. Pink after all is a hue of red! It is also rather evident that His Grace thoroughly enjoys this colour of hose!




Cheers,

Interestingly enough, historically speaking, pink was considered a "boy's" colour and light (or baby) blue a "girl's" colour.

Pink is a lighter shade of red (a very Martial colour) while light blue is the colour the Virgin Mary is always depicted wearing in Renaissance paintings. A short article can be found HERE on the topic.

It was really only after WWII that it became blue for boys and pink for girls.

Back on topic - His Grace is a very dapper chap. I love his sporran, and would LOVE to hear the history of it.

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[Paul Henry]

snip..... When one thinks "pink" hose, the image is not always complementary, but when seen in real life, it works very well with the ancient color tones of his kilt.

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Matt, you're right. The term "Pink" hose does yeild to a rather non-complimentary thought.

Bill aka Mole, I think you mistake the meaning of Matt's post, complementary and complimentary are dirfferent things

[Bill aka Mole]

Bill aka Mole, I think you mistake the meaning of Matt's post, complementary and complimentary are dirfferent things

Thank you and yes, you are correct. I did mean complementary.