Note to As You Like It, 3.2.378-379: "your hose should be / ungartered"


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As You Like It,
Act 3, Scene 2, lines 378-379.
your hose should be / ungartered: Rosalind is saying that Orlando's appearance is too neat and tidy to qualify as a man truly in love, who should appear heedless of his appearance due to his focus on love, a cliché which still exists in the United States from our English heritage.

In the period of the Tudors, stockings, or hose, were not necessarily joined in the middle like leggings [also called hose]. Note you can see this man's bare legs above the tops of his white hose which appear to be securely gartered.



White Gartered Tudor Hose