Q. People who shoot tend to fall into two categories
when it comes to wearing their woolly shooting socks, but which is the correct style of dress? Some guns wear their plus-fours tucked into the top of their socks, secured by a tongue of highly coloured garter, while others wear their plus-fours over the top of their socks thereby ensuring that if it rains the water doesn’t run down the inside of the socks. What is the right sock etiquette, lest I be mistaken for a corporate gun?
N.C., Whitchurch, Hants A. The correct procedure is to put on your socks and do up your garters first. (Beware of brightly coloured garters which are beginning to look corporate — unless you are a scoutmaster.) Then you must put your plus-fours on and fasten them properly beneath your knees. The design will ensure there is no problem with rain. To do otherwise may give the impression that you do not actually have plus-fours but are trying to pass off ordinary trousers, hacked off at the knee, as the correct kit.
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