Lets talk tartan waistcoats

[Carlo]

I think that a picture would help.
We have seen a nice waistcoat not cut on the bias in your kilt evolution thread, so that is not an instant no no.

[Nathan]

Colin's is cut from the same cloth though and the set lines up nicely. My dad's (which I'm contemplating) is 40 years older and a smaller set of the same tartan. Depending on the responses here, I may or may not take a photo with it.

[usonian]

The fabrics were both purchased from Marton Mills so the colors match quite well, but I made a waistcoat from polyviscose tartan to go with a 16 oz wool kilt and I doubt anyone has ever noticed the difference in sett size:



As for mismatching colors, I think it's probably another thing nobody would notice unless the difference was pretty extreme... especially if you were wearing a jacket over the waistcoat.

[Guinness>water]

I think it would be fine. I've heard that the traditional way to wear a plaid(shepard or day) is to have it in a differant color scheme, different sett size or maybe even differant tartan(same clan).