Our quality Kilt Hose with Scottish Thistle for the wee ones. Made to the highest standard from the most comfortable mix of materials - 40% wool, 40% acrylic, 19% nylon, 1% elastane - a perfect alternative for the most popular but scratchy pure wool version.

The thistle, the floral emblem of Scotland, features in many Scottish symbols and logos, and on UK currency. In the language of flowers, the thistle (like the burr) is an ancient Celtic symbol of nobility of character as well as of birth, for the wounding or provocation of a thistle yields punishment. For this reason the thistle is the symbol of the Order of the Thistle, a high chivalric order of Scotland.

Another story is that a bare foot Viking attacker stepped on one at night and cried out, so alerting the defenders of a Scottish castle. Whatever the justification, the national flower of Scotland is the thistle. It is found in many Scottish symbols and as the name of several Scottish football clubs. Carnegie Mellon University features the thistle in its crest.