Too Traditional?

[Jock Scot]

Now here is a picture of a pretty traditional kilt attired chap (Macmillan's Son, thank you for the picture) and if I saw him walking down Inverness High Street, he would get my glance, as any kilted gentlemen gets, and my almost instant thought would be, "yes that's OK" and on I would go without a thought.

If we consider the picture, it appears to be have been raining, its overcast, and whilst I assume it was not taken in Scotland it could well have been.

The point is this:

Its traditional kilt attire. We could add a balmoral, lairds plaid, and a cromach and its still traditional. We would be more than a tad over-dressed for the pub though.

We could also take off the tweed jacket and tie and it would still be traditional.

We could leave the tweed jacket and tie on and take off the sweater, for a smarter look, and still be traditional.

We could take off the jacket, tie, sweater and roll up the shirt sleeves and still be traditional, but we would probably not be in appropriate attire for a wedding

We could take the example in the picture and add a dirk and fly plaid and we are in the realms of costume.

I suggest that we ought to try to be a lot more understanding on this website, many of us are overly critical of the subjects in pictures, particularly as we can study a picture at our leisure for as long as we want. We are unaware of the circumstance of a picture. Someone might be wearing a jacket, sweater and white hose in the height of a heatwave and lo and behold a full salvo of fairly hefty critisism arrives from all diections. But, BUT what we don't know is that the fellow in the picture has just left hospital after a hefty dose of malaria and having fallen over and tearing his claret hose he borrowed a pair of white hose to get him by. I honestly think by worrying about the minute detail, we miss the overall image that I see with my split second glance when walking down Inverness High Street.