Kilts & Food & Wine

**ozone** · 7th June 07, 01:17 PM

Well,

now that I have my new pride of wales tartan, I will be wearing it while volunteering at the Food&Wine Classic in Aspen this year (2 weekends from now). My question is this: casual or formal? Should I go for the Dr. Martens/boot with scrunched down socks look? Or would it be better to have the flashes & such? My job is to pour wine samples before a tasting seminar & then get the heck out of the way while the seminar goes on. I am then responsible for resetting everything, emptying spit buckets (yum!), moving cases of empty wine glasses etc.

I know, probably the job would be better done with a freedom kilt, but i dont have one.

Anyway, in between seminars, there's this HUGE tent with food samples, wine samples and....whisky samples!!!! I get to wander around with all the rich folks who paid $1200/ticket during that time and i thought perhaps a wee bit more formal would do the trick.

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, free freedom kilts

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**ozone** · 7th June 07, 01:25 PM

bump...any ideas? anybody?

**BruceK** · 7th June 07, 01:27 PM

My two cents (or two pence) would be to go with the flashes. Sounds like it may be a semi-formal atmosphere at $1200 a pop. :-)
Besides which, the flashes certainly add to the overall look IMHO. Just be durned sure you don't spill any wine on the kilt!

**Rampant Lion** · 7th June 07, 01:36 PM

I say go with the flashes. Even if it is too dressy, which I don't think it is, it's always better to be a little over dressed than under-dressed.

**Panache** · 7th June 07, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Rampant Lion

I say go with the flashes. Even if it is too dressy, which I don't think it is, it's always better to be a little over dressed than under-dressed.

I'm in total agreement with R.L. The little extra class will be appreciated wether it's expected or not. Knock 'em dead!

Cheers

Jamie

**Rigged** · 7th June 07, 02:51 PM

I'd go with semi-formal or business casual. I think you'll want to look dressy, but not so much as to be the center of attention (which might be hard to avoid anyway).

**ozone** · 7th June 07, 03:18 PM

Is this the best discussion group or what? Thanks for the encouragement and suggestions all! Now all I need to do is get some kilt hose to match my shirts when i am in Denver this weekend.