Scathing Attack on White Socks

[MacGumerait]

Repeat after me 1000 times:

"There are NO kilt police"

Are you sure about the kilt police ? I have been repeating this quote for the past hour . Now at count number 987 . All of sudden , there are now guys pounding at my front door demanding I surrender my white kilt hose .

They must have been reading my thoughts ! Dang it , I should have been wearing my tin foil glengarry !

The Wizard of BC warned us about the kilt police a few months ago in a post and about their unseemly ways . I am preparing to bribe them with an ale or two . If that doesn't work , then I guess it's full on scrapping !

[GG]

This fashion guru guy is hardly referring to kilt hose. But I could imagine that he would also warn against them AND men wearing kilts (form and often most clashing colors) were they just more often seen. In Denmark we have a guru – a man - who strictly oppose to men wearing shorts of any kind, because men’s legs are ugly, he thinks.
I don’t wear white kilt hose very often but after reading such an article my inner rebel tells me to do more so.

[TheOfficialBren]

Not that I care what some dweeb who gets paid to write about socks thinks...

He can't be too terribly daft if he was able to convince someone that his views on socks were worth paying for...

Lol

[WillowEstate]

But none of that has much to do with how I will wear my kilt attire - my first kilt won't be here until November so I have time to read threads like this and plan my look. I like learning the "rules" and knowing why customs are customary so I'll know better if and when I should break the rules and/or disregard the custom.

The only rules is there are no rules! Dress maketh the man, they say and for me, that's it. What I wear expresses my personality on any particular day and the image I choose to present to the world. If the world doesn't like it, that's the world's loss.

I do wear off white hose with some old white leather Nike trainers and very occasionally with a kilt and "proper shoes" but generally, I prefer darker colours with the MacKenzie tartan, modern and Seaforth.

Oh, and like HippieLee, I'm fit enough I don't need to "train" - the Nikes are just comfy!

[tundramanq]

Take note that cream/offwhite is the color of natural wool. To get white you have to strip the lanolin and bleach the wool.

Here my knee high cotton/spandex support hose only come in black and white. I have to dye some of the white ones to increase the variety of colors to choose from. I choose the color I wear based on that looks good to me that day. White gets worn about as much as one of the colors or black.

[OC Richard]

All these fashion rules...

I, for one, would never use the word "rules". In looking at the past I look at what was worn and what was not worn, using all the sources available to me. Whether the things one observes were based on "rules" who can say, but facts are facts.

The fact remains that as far back as the evidence goes tartan or diced hose were worn in Highland Dress, this continuing in Civilian Evening Dress up until offwhite socks being showing up worn with the Prince Charlie in relatively recent times. (The closest military parallels, Mess Dress and Levee Dress, still use diced or tartan hose.)

The tradition is what it is, and it is up to each of us whether we prefer following it or rejecting it.

[piperdbh]

Some character somewhere gets paid to write about his likes and dislikes in socks, while we do it for free. Who's smarter?

[Alan H]

Some character somewhere gets paid to write about his likes and dislikes in socks, while we do it for free. Who's smarter?

A valid point!

My take on it is three-fold.

1. I'm wearing white socks right now. However, I don't wear white socks all the time.
2. I'll wear white hose with a kilt if I feel like it. However, I don't wear white hose all the time.....just when I feel like it.
3. I can turn a bigger caber than he can.

[sailortats]

3. I can turn a bigger caber than he can.

ya go that right matey

[tundramanq]

Just read Denise Winterman's full article and half agree on several pointers. My minds eye has her writing this while sitting at home in sweats as it takes too long to dress by her out of date rules that conflict with each other at times.

I was taught early to avoid using the words always and never.