Too Traditional?

[Jock Scot]

Well OK. With evening dress(black tie) the group in your first picture are the absolute standard, safe and would be the choice of most and a perfect example for anyone to study. However evening dress does as we can see from your other pictures allow for acceptable interpretations and again we need to know in what context(occasion) some of the attire was being worn.To my eyes the pale blue creation is a step too far in the wrong direction, but the others fit the environment well and I have seen many "in the wild" like it, but picture 1 would still be the style that most would follow.

Now for day wear, the tweed, jacket, black brogues(not those dreadful ghillie things), single coloured hose, tattersall shirt, club tie style will get you by almost anywhere and at any time of day or an informal evening do. In honest truth, for most over here, jeans and some sort of shirt seems to be the do-it-all attire for almost everything. Anyway for your mild weathered games a tweed etc outfit will put you in the smart bracket and most these days would tone down their attire a tad if they were not officiating.

Something I have noticed over the years and it is plainly obvious on this website and I pass these words as an amused observation and certainly not as a criticism, is this. Many outhwith Scotland seem to err towards the loud(brash) side of kilt attire at almost a drop of a hat. Now I grant you there are examples in your pictures above of some Scots wearing some pretty loud outfits---- but on the right occasion and should not be regarded as the norm. You chaps seem to be attracted to the bright, glitzy stuff at almost any excuse and this is where you chaps are steering a very fine line between normal attire and costume and I am afraid quite often a costume is the result.

Yes I can see that fresh, enthusiastic, uncluttered, unaware, eyes and minds are attracted away from the "boring" standard dress, but that is really the norm. Take multi coloured hose(diced,argyll,coloured tops) for example, historically correct for sure, worn as evening attire by some today, even more occasionally worn in the day by even fewer Scots, today. Now, there is nothing technically wrong in wearing multi-coloured hose and we are all free to choose , but it does seem that you chaps grasp these rather louder choices far more eagerly than is normal over here.