New kilt! . . . New hose?

[OC Richard]

basically a 'Black Watch' tartan with a red and white line overlay - very similar to Mackenzie tartan.)

I was in the same situation, back when my grandmother made me my first kilt in real Scottish tartan. The tartan is the green & blue MacDonald Of The Isles Hunting, which also has white and red overstripes.

I picked up, for around $20, a pair of ex-army MacKenzie hose. (Unlike the other regiments, who wore diced hose, the pipers of the Seaforth Highlanders wore tartan hose.)

Here they are, c1976



Thing is, when I got those hose the Seaforth Highlanders had been defunct for only 16 years, and one could pick up ex-Seaforth things. MacKenzie hose are probably rare now!