Nice there! There's something wonderfully classic about red&white diced hose with a Black Watch kilt.
BTW note the thread going about "old school" hose. In The Highlanders of Scotland, the plain hose are all shades of grey (from pale to charcoal) or an odd neutral colour similar to what I would call "taupe". Not much variety then, except for some of the plain hose having contrasting cuffs in white, scarlet, or olive green.
We're much more colourful today, apparently.
Anyhow here's my Isle of Skye with claret, olive, and "thriced" hose (I don't change sporrans much, eh?)
Hey I just remembered that a while back I took photos of my IOS kilt with various hose for comparison purposes; here they are! Note how the blue hose makes the purple in the tartan "zing", likewise the claret hose liven up the brown; how the black hose allow the full palette to show (but without the "zing" of the claret or blue hose); and how dull-looking the kilt is when paired with the mid-grey hose, which tend to drain the colour out of most tartans
Last edited by OC Richard; 25th November 12 at 07:16 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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