The Ghillie Shirt

[Tobus]

Tobus,

I've made some changes to the outfit, what do you think?

Better? Worse? Do I look smarter? Do I look more ridiculous?

I put the hose lower and the kilt higher again? Does it look good?

I think lowering the tops of your hose looks much better! It makes a big difference in how it accentuates the shapes of your calves and helps provide some separation between the hose and the kilt. I still think it would be much improved in a non-white hose colour, but the height looks great.

Raising the kilt helped too, of course. And this is a tricky one which has to be adjusted for body shape (i.e. position of your natural waist) as well as how your kilt was made. If you bought a kilt with a 'standard' drop that wasn't tailored specifically to your dimensions, then it can be awkward trying to find the right balance between where the top of the kilt rides on your midsection and where the selvedge falls in relation to your knee. Where you are wearing it in your last set of photos is about as high as you could go. You might feel more comfortable actually lowering it back down a little bit, and it should still look fine since the hose height helped with that visual separation.

I noticed that you lowered where you're tying the laces on your ghillie brogues. If you insist on wearing those, I do think that's a better look than the high wrap you had before. And I just noticed you were wearing flashes; they almost escaped notice because they're so far back around the sides of your legs. Moving them forward around your legs (to the 2:00 and 10:00 positions) will make them much more visible.

I am considering giving the kilt up.

Why? It is your national dress! You have a lot of years ahead of you, during which you can add some very nice pieces to your wardrobe and refine your look as your tastes change and your experience level grows. You have access to multitudes of kilt-related things there that many of us don't. If you're discouraged by the steep learning curve, don't be. Everyone here is on your side!