Kilt hose observations

[PiobBear]

There are times when I like cheap, thin hose. When it's 90 degrees out, they're much, much cooler.

[billmcc]

There are times when I like cheap, thin hose. When it's 90 degrees out, they're much, much cooler.

I feel your pain, Piobear. I will wear good quality wool hose for semi-formal to formal wear, since such affairs are usually indoors during the summer. However, I have just ordered two pairs of cotton hose for casual wear. It is way too hot and humid here in Florida much of the year to be comfortable in wool hose.

[fluter]

There are times when I like cheap, thin hose. When it's 90 degrees out, they're much, much cooler.

This comes down (in part) to personal preference. Some folks can't seem to stand anything on their calves when it's hot. I mind it less than some of my cousins. I also grew up in South Carolina.

I will state flatly that wool is good in summer for all of the same reasons that wool is good in the winter. It insulates wonderfully. It breathes, and it wicks extremely well. It has "loft" and does not compress under/around the feet.

In real hot weather, my feet will be most comfortable in fairly substantial wool socks. High quality synthetics can be good, but not too thin, please! or you'll give up some of their benefits. And speak to me not of cotton (yuck) socks, which hardly wick; but just get soggy and compressed.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled preconceptions about wool.

[Jack Daw]

In real hot weather, my feet will be most comfortable in fairly substantial wool socks.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled preconceptions about wool.

I can agree with you. I live in the worst of the heat and humidy of Houston, TX, and have not wavered in wearing my woolen hose. I do not find them uncomfortable at all.