Ewan McGregor Investiture Wear

[Nathan]

I am sorry Nathan, I have only just spotted your question.

Its a free world, well your bit and my bit is anyway, and how and what we choose to wear is a privilege that we both have. So If you want to wear those things then do so, however if you want to wear your kilt and attire to best advantage then, if I were you I would choose rather more carefully.

I said it in another thread, I think yesterday, that the Scots have a "home" advantage over the rest of the world with kilt attire and speaking generally here, we have no need to look in shop windows, internet, catalogs to see how kilt attire and colours and what is worn where and how by using our eyes and seeing the kilt live and for real and experienced know how is often at hand too. I accept that some choices that some Scots make do defy this observation-----spectacularly on occasion! So those new to the kilt do not wear what so many kilt attire shop owners, kilt hire companies and web-shops think that we ought to wear! This is where much of the divergance of trans-Atlantic kilt attire opinion comes from that causes so much angst between us and it shows so obviously on websites such as this one.

Fine, but you didn't answer my question. I know you aren't a fan of some of today's popular accessories and to be honest neither am I in some cases. Since the man were talking about is a Scot, I think we can lay aside the home advantage point as irrelevant to this example and get back to the point. Does the fact that he is wearing ghillie brogues and white hose actually make this outfit "not a lounge suit equivalent or rather is he wearing a lounge suit equivalent of which some Highland gents may not be fond?


It's not like he is wearing diced hose, patent pumps and an evening sporran...