Proper hose with the PC tux

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My advice for you would be this -- wear your best pair of hose. If that is your ecru hose, then so be it. You'll probably look and feel ten times better in a pair of real quality ecru hose than in a pair of real cheap navy hose.

These are some carefully considered words! The knee jerk reaction against white/cream/ecru hose sometimes does not pause to take in other considerations. The OP said his coloured hose are the "usual" ones that can be found online. I wonder what the quality of them is like i.e. are they serviceable for formal wear or stretched thin in the calf with a wimpy cuff?

Diced or Argyle hose would get my vote because they are more suited to formal wear, but that was not one of the OP's options.