I have a pair of Cheviot hose that are my "go-to" socks, worn once a week on average for a couple years now, and they still look pretty much like new, no holes, no, what do you call it? when you get the little balls of wool appear on the socks around the ankles?
My champion kilt hose are the Lochcarron ones I got back in the 1980s and they're still fine, though true they haven't been worn all that regularly.
The shortest-lived hose were the "piper's socks" that our pipe band issued us on the Saturday morning of a two-day Games. By the end of the day Saturday there were holes in both ankles! On Sunday I wore the 35-year-old Lochcarron hose. Somebody gave me another pair of those "piper's socks" and they wore through the ankles and toes after a couple dozen wearings. (These "piper's socks" are sold by a major Scottish firm that shall remain nameless, and I suspect that they are made in Pakistan. I've seen suspicious sporrans and jackets by the same firm.)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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