Great Kilt worn as formal attire

[Dale Seago]

4.5 yards Double Width 13 oz tartan from a mill in the UK.

I've done that before, and it went off splendidly.

A couple of things to keep in mind are that modern sensibilities will be happier if it doesn't look like you have a tire around your middle. It's already been mentioned that you can "tighten that up" a bit.

Another is a shorter-style jacket (also mentioned); well, yes, I s'pose. The alternative is to be sure that when you arrange and pin the upper plaid, enough fabric hangs down the back that it doesn't pull up on the skirt of whatever sort of jacket/doublet you're wearing.

Also, in order to avoid the skirt of your jacket being pulled back over your shoulder when you pin the upper plaid, there is a way of bringing part of it up under your arm and pinning it so that it's essentially self-supporting on that side. Don't know if that was done in the 1700s, but I've seen portraiture clearly showing it in the early 1800s.

For those who have a sort of immediate visceral reaction to the feileadh mor worn with modern attire as somehow wrong. . .I suspect the main reason is that while the "great" and "wee" kilts are in fact essentially contemporaneous historically, the former was pretty much dropped by the 1800s while the latter continued, with modifications here and there, to the present.

That makes both forms "historical", but only the latter has survived in some form of continuous use to become "traditional".

I think it's a great look, myself. Honestly. . .People wearing it this way strike me as giving the Scots a reminder (perhaps needed, perhaps not) of their own cultural traditions and how they might be adapted/continued today in ways they may not have considered. . .

. . .In the same way that some traditional Gaelic music has survived and been revived in, say, Nova Scotia after being lost in the country of its origin.