jacket ID

**Kilted Rogue** · 15th August 09, 05:18 AM

can anyone tell me the type of jacket the fellow 2nd from the right is wearing? on the 6th picture

**McMurdo** · 15th August 09, 05:24 AM

I think the photo is too small to tell, is this the photo you were looking at?

**JSFMACLJR** · 15th August 09, 05:44 AM

That is Lord Sempill. His jacket, I am sure, was made by his tailor. I'm sure his tailor refers to it as "Lord Sempill's tweed kilt jacket", and people close to Lord Sempill probably call it "Jamie's tweed kilt jacket."

The nice thing about bespoke tailoring is that youcan have a jacket made to your specifications, unique, as it were.

That being said, in "The Kilt and How to Wear It," Erskine wrote that the preferred day jacket had a square front, not rounded as we seem to think is standard. Erskine maintained that such a jacket was more authentic and looked nicer.

**Bugbear** · 15th August 09, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR

That being said, in "The Kilt and How to Wear It," Erskine wrote that the preferred day jacket had a square front, not rounded as we seem to think is standard. Erskine maintained that such a jacket was more authentic and looked nicer.

Intresting...

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 16th August 09, 04:10 PM

Please note the colour of the hose... Not even HRH the Duchess of Rothsey is wearing while hose...

**Detroitpete** · 16th August 09, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Please note the colour of the hose... Not even HRH the Duchess of Rothsey is wearing while hose...

Now THAT was funny!

**Heming** · 15th August 09, 06:17 AM

I notice Lord Sempill is also wearing a bias-cut tartan waistcoat, which would according to some breaking the Rule of no tartan above waist. And I love his tartan! Note to self: Marry into that family...

**Peter C.** · 15th August 09, 06:34 AM

I do like that jacket.

It would be much easier to alter a sports jacket to that sort of kilt jacket, than one with the curved front.

Hmmm...Now wheres that sports jacket I got from good will?

Peter

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 15th August 09, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Heming

I notice Lord Sempill is also wearing a bias-cut tartan waistcoat, which would according to some breaking the Rule of no tartan above waist. And I love his tartan! Note to self: Marry into that family...

And who set that rule? No one from the Highlands!

**Zardoz** · 15th August 09, 07:55 AM

Erskine's "The Kilt and How to Wear It" is a great book, I got a copy early on in my kilt wearing career, but I think quotes and advice from it should always be prefaced with something like "In 1901, Erskine said..." to remind folks that the information, while still quite valid, is over 100 years old. All fashion, even kilt fashion, evolves over time.