MacCreary Tartan Hose by Skye Highland Outfitters

**orangehaggis** · 7th March 09, 12:07 PM

Sorry ... have to be pedantic as I've seen the error oft repeated on this forum when discussing royalty (Cincinnatian or otherwise). "Your Highness" and "His/Her Royal Highness" are the form for addressing princes and princesses. "Your Majesty" and "His/Her Majesty" are the form for addressing Kings and Queens!

Mark O - Ohio

**Panache** · 7th March 09, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by orangehaggis

Sorry ... have to be pedantic as I've seen the error oft repeated on this forum when discussing royalty (Cincinnatian or otherwise). "Your Highness" and "His/Her Royal Highness" are the form for addressing princes and princesses. "Your Majesty" and "His/Her Majesty" are the form for addressing Kings and Queens!

Mark O - Ohio

As Hamish still draws breath I think it might be just a tad inappropriate for Rex to usurp his title!

Cheers

Jamie

**thescot** · 7th March 09, 06:25 PM

The most beautiful hose I've seen.

Now it's back to saving my pennies.

**Laird O'the Cowcaddens** · 7th March 09, 06:57 PM

Really,Really Nice,good lines and definition. (The Hose aint too bad either,LOL)

VINCERE VEL MORI Aye Yours.

**Kiltman** · 7th March 09, 07:57 PM

Fantastic!

**turpin** · 8th March 09, 01:17 PM

same problem here.

**lickstone** · 8th March 09, 01:30 PM

Nice hose!

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

Some weeks back, Josh announced a promotional price for tartan hose, so I decided to take advantage of it. Along with the specs, I sent one of the cut-out bits from the tartan from my MacCreary kilt along with some mini skeins of yarn I made from another of the bits that I unraveled and sorted by color.

Primary colors were to have been ancient scarlet and royal blue; the secondary colors green and yellow.

Here are the results received just today.

I did not expect them to come out quite this elaborate and beautiful, and with bonus colors to boot - black and baby blue. From the blended yarn sections I got the purple I wanted, and, a nice surprise, the olive that is created when that scarlet is crossed with that green.

Construction-wise, I couldn't be more pleased. The knitting is even and there are no seams. It is sized for my chunky legs just right and they are very comfortable to wear - now the best-fitting pair I own. They do have a bit of bulk, so when I go for a more formal shoe at some point, I may consider getting a slightly bigger size, but for now, I'll just loosen my laces a tad.

These hose are really a nice addition to my collection of accessories, and I'm very glad I took the plunge.

Regards,
Rex.

**Rex_Tremende** · 8th March 09, 03:37 PM

Josh, I suspect the issue has to do with your graphics. I noticed that you have a number of overlaying images in (I think) png format. I would guess that this may be hard for some PCs to render. Try simplfying your layout using flat jpg images. PM me if you would like some help.

Regards,
Rex.

**NorCalPiper** · 8th March 09, 03:52 PM

Thanks Rex-
I'll PM you shortly. I deleted the web site and re-uploaded it. Can you guys try again and see if there is any difference. I made a small mistake when uploading it the first time which may have caused some funny-ness.

**fluter** · 8th March 09, 08:52 PM

Josh, I must agree with Rex. that is a very graphics-intensive presentation. If I'm not mistaken, even the text blocks are graphics, and there are something like 100 images involved. Your Web designer was just having a little too much fun, in my considered opinion.

Take Einstein's advice: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The Firefox browser on a modest modern notebook handles it OK (but it takes a minute or so to load). Internet Exploder on the same box seems to do fairly well, too.