Western Scotland

[BroosterB1]

While back there we a couple of posts about western style vests working with some tartans. Got me thinking ( always dangerous), but since the southwest was populated by lots of Scots, could this work......






While its defiantly not highland formal, or even highland casual I think it works at a kind of Ron the RiverKilt way......Call it Western Scottish or maybe Cowboy Zen..... Or have I just fallen way too far down the rabbit hole?

[SteveB]

The kilt is a garment. With your build and the self colour kilt, the patterned shirt and waistcoat works very well. It doesn't hurt that the colour in the hose picks nicely off the waistcoat.
Slainte

[duchessofnc]

I will disagree with Steve. The colors are way too busy. And your garters are showing.

[gilmore]

I think it's just fine. In fact, I might go further and put feathers in the hat band.

[Nick the DSM]

IMO, the vest looks too shiny and the color looks weird with the saffron.

but i like your idea, i've been trying to come up with something that the duke would do.

[hospitaller]

if you like it, that's all that matters.

I wouldn't wear any of it though.

[SteveB]

I realize that a bit of garter is showing, as well as the sporran is black and the shoes are brown. I would go with black shoes and add a western bolo in a saffron thread with a silver longhorn slide. Allowing the strings of the bolo over the waistcoat would give it that very western flair.

[duchessofnc]

Oh and don't forget cowboy boots... but hey... never mind if it all looks terrible.

[BroosterB1]

Faux pas dually noted, I will endeavor to match items more carefully, and (gasp) make sure my garters do not show. I do have a brown sporran but I like the volume of the nightstalker.

As to busy or wild, Cowboy shirts are known to be rather "striking", aside from the kilt this particular vest and shirt would not raise an eyebrow anywhere in the "Western" culture, indeed might be viewed as rather tame. I have a lime green silk shirt in what looks like a Hunting Mac Rae with a embroidered shoulder yolk just to prove my point.

Not so sure about the feathers, as the hat is calvary style and works better with the silver conchos, which you cannot see. And personally, I prefer turquoise bolos, although a silver pounded Navajo could work.

[Jack Daw]

When I go to the TX Scottish Festival in Arlington, it's June and usually brutally hot (if not pouring rain). In such a case, I wear a broad-brimed straw with my kilt. But, for some reason that I cannot put my finger on, this combination of kit that you are wearing doesn't seem to mesh. Maybe, I should be wearing a pith helmut instead of the broad-brim.