Quote Originally Posted by Macman View Post
I used to wear those in the reserves 35 years ago. They are pulled on over your regulation grey socks; then the shoes and spats go on. We wore them for full dress only. For non-dress, we had them in plain olive colour, and instead of spats we wore short puttees which covered the area between the boots and the hose-tops. I remember wrapping the puttees was quite an art.
Tell me more about the puttees as I thought they went out with trench warfare.

For the same reasons (even more so) that hose tops came to be used in the military I think hose tops could be put to fashionable use. They are cheaper and more rational than full hose. If one can accept low sitting kilts made out of synthetic materials, leather or cotton then why not take hose tops into a new context? Seems like a lesser sacrilege of symbols.