True that we can't get everyone to agree.
Nevertheless if you look back over 150 years of photos of men in Highland Dress you'll see that there have always been norms or idiomatic practices which experienced Scottish kiltwearers seldom depart far from.
My comments are confined to traditional kiltwearing. Utilikilts and their ilk, and the manners of dress that go with them, are scarcely a quarter-century old, so any talk of traditional norms regarding them is meaningless.
Departures from traditional norms I often see include:
-wearing the kilt too low, both at the bottom of the kilt, and at its top.
-wearing socks too high.
-wearing a belt underneath a waistcoat (evidently an attempt to get an ill-fitting kilt to stay up. Correctly made kilts don't require such Saxon imports.)
-wearing waistcoats that are too short.
-wearing sporrans too low, or too high.
-wearing the kilt off-centre.
-lacing ghillie brogues too high.
-wearing the flashes too low.
-having the necktie all ahoo.
-wearing an excessive number of accessories (or doo-dads as I call them).
-mixing various modes and periods of Highland Dress.
-wearing a mode of Highland Dress which is not appropriate to the occasion.
Well I'm sure there are more but those come to mind at the moment.
Note that the majority of these non-idiomatic practices involve how things are worn rather than what things are worn.
Last edited by OC Richard; 8th April 18 at 07:00 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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