Hey Brian,

I didn't make my garters/flashes myself, I bought them in Scotland (and very expensive they were, too, for what they are!! ...why is Highland dress constantly subjected to such needless mark-up????), but you can make them easily yourself, just look for slightly stretchy, broad (to prevent circulation problems) cloth ribbon...they keep yer socks up very efficiently and have an old-fashioned, pre-elastic-plastic feel about them... I'm an old-fashioned kinda guy! sort-of...