co-ordinate....me?

[macgreggor]

Hi all,

I have only been kilted for about six months . I am very used to looking and dressing , to qoute Bubba, like I am headed out to blow stumps! This morning I found myself standing in front of the closet asking myself whether this shirt or that one would go better with my Blackwatch SWK....and if I could get away with wearing my grey ankle high boots?

Arrrgh! What has happened to me? I buy a couple of kilts, hang around here for a few months and read 'Hamish on Kilting' (no disrepect intended Hamish) and I start to worry about how my CLOTHES match!

Has anyone else noticed the same trend? Please stop me before I accesorize again.

macG

[yoippari]

It happened to me much quicker. First couple of days I would be perfectly happy wearing a tropical print with a tartan kilt. I didn't even use the term print then, just tropical shirt. Print is a style of hand writing. Now I wear solid shirts with tartan kilts and when I get a solid color kilt I will wear my print shirts with it. I have thought about color of socks, I only have one pair of flashes and luckly they... don't clash with either kilt but they may not be the best, I wonder if maybe I should get a pair of normal shoes instead of my steel toe high tops.

But that is only with my kilts. My troosers go with anything, really.

[Riverkilt]

Good timing. I just added seven pics to my gallery, they're on page 6. Used the timer delay thing to take pics of the "outfits" I've worn to work the last two weeks.

As anyone who views them can see I'm still struggling with coordinating things... but AM working on it.

Fortunately there's not much kilt fashion sense out here in the canyonlands to worry about someone snickering too much.

Ron

[Iolaus]

Has anyone else noticed the same trend? Please stop me before I accesorize again.

macG

Yes! ... and I was just sitting here in my black-faded-to-light-gray jeans and old t-shirt, getting ready to start a thread to ask if I should get a particular patterned cap to go with my Black Stewart! (I'm still gonna start it! ;) )

Well, as long as we remember there's a difference between looking good, and looking "Metro", then I think we're still doing ok.

[Graham]

It's been the same with me macg, identical experience. I never cared about what matched, colour blindness also hindered me, but Hamish and my wife have helped a lot there.

What is the reason for all this change? I guess we all want to look good in a kilt an make kilts look good!

[Big Paul]

I guess I'm a little weird... I've always liked to match.. I must admit that it's gotten far more accute since getting into kilts!

[Blu (Ontario)]

... Has anyone else noticed the same trend? Please stop me before I accesorize again.... macG

Indeed... and not only that, the kilt is the only garment I've ever worn that I felt compelled to do a 3/4 turn and look at my butt in the mirror!

blu

[starbkjrus]

Indeed... and not only that, the kilt is the only garment I've ever worn that I felt compelled to do a 3/4 turn and look at my butt in the mirror!

blu

Whoops. That's the second time I've spewed corn flakes on the screen this morning. Mainly because I do the same thing.

[Mike n NC]

Indeed... and not only that, the kilt is the only garment I've ever worn that I felt compelled to do a 3/4 turn and look at my butt in the mirror!

blu

I'm hearing, off in the distance, dear does this kilt make my butt look too big?

Mike

[NewKilt]

Mac -

I've been kilted for 3 1/2 months and have my 10th kilt on order. I've become very concious of what shirts, and hose look good with certain kilts. I have even went to the extreme of developing a kilt schedule on an Excel spreadsheet for what combinations I'm going to where on any given day! I was never this concious about color combinations until I started wearing kilts.

Darrell Kennedy Lawrence