I don't know anything about that, MacLowlife, however, a couple of years back, I realized I needed to replace a navy blue suit; I prefer navy blue suits regardless of what is or is not in style. So,...

Thanks, Zardoz. I don't seem to be able to get the document to open correctly, it says it is an empty document.
Anyway, I was able to use that to search a little and find a little more of the...

I've heard this in many different contexts, but it just happened to be pointed out in an introductory social semiotics text book I've been reading; we do not know when something being studied for the...

As a contrast to Highland attire, does this "too new-ness" not quite looking right extend to suits and business outfits?

You all should try being useless: it's worth the effort.

:shock: Gees, I'm glad I'm considered to be an uneducated idiot…

Yes, predigested clothing…

And now that I think about it, there are weathered and ancient tartans or color schemes, along with antiqued chrome cantles. I haven't heard of new kilts being sold with...

It can also lead to a situation of becoming a target; ie, the experts don't argue with each other, they argue with the non-experts listening to the opponent experts.

I found out the hard and painful way, here on the forum, the experts do not always agree with each other. It's not much fun, as a non-expert, getting stuck in the middle of the disagreements.

I suspect, CMcG, this comes from childhood learning in the traditional, Scottish/Highland milieu; including personal, not historical, photographs of Highland attire, perhaps of family members. A time...

Graffiti of the Ancient Ones.

Ah, water cooler service, and janitorial staffs; it will be crippling.

Back to the thread, "Jocking" a bonnet seems to be expected, so there is an example of something looking too new, not being...

I agree with you, MacLowlife, though I was thinking of the brass cantles on the day wear sporrans more than the silver evening wear. I assumed the evening wear would have fur of some sort for the...

There have been some threads dealing with rebuilding a sporran around an antique cantle. That would probably fall under the subject of this thread.
So, should the new sporran pouch be artificially...

Thanks CMcG; seems like I've come across discussion of Lord Lovat's attire on the forum, here and there.

:cool:

Thanks Paul.

There has been discussion of handed down Highland attire being patched back up, sometimes in unavoidably noticeable ways, and worn traditionally: jackets with patched holes, reversed or patched...

Ok, I finished reading the book. Some of the things about Rogers made me think of Dale Seago; not everything, though. :lol:

Highland soldiers were mentioned a couple of times, but I don't think...

I suggest barbarian fur for the cuffs and lapels, Rondo, and split your beard into a trifork.

Glad you got your jacket, rondo. Sounds interesting.

War on the Run: The Epic Story Of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier, by John F. Ross (Bantam/Random House, 2009), is pretty interesting so far. Reading it in relation to the...

Congratulations. :D

congratulations. Glad it worked out well.

Well, Nick, the first book has pictures of women at the beach wearing Edwardian era bathingsuits… Are you sure you're old enough to see that?