Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
BTW it looks to me like the hose and cuffs are knit separately then joined. If this is so it wouldn't require any special manufacturing method to make the cuffs in contrasting colours.
Yes, they are indeed made separately and stitched together. I had considered ripping out the seam and putting the pieces back together to shorten both the leg length and the cuff width. But that's tricky on a knitted item; you still need it to stretch when it's reassembled. So regular stitching like one would do on fabric won't work. It would require a joining technique specific to knitting (which I can do now, but they use a much smaller yarn than hand-knitters typically use).

If one were to learn how to pull the cuffs off and reassemble, then one could theoretically make their own custom two-tone kilt hose from two pairs of single-coloured HoC kilt hose. It would just require swapping the cuffs.