Opinions Wanted: New Kilt Jacket (PIC)

[McMurdo]

That's very diplomatic of you, Kyle.

Let me be a bit less than diplomatic (everyone here knows that I like to call a spade a spade!).

Colin, I'm sorry, but your new jacket looks exactly like what it is. A saxon jacket worn with a kilt. A kilt jacket would look so much better. Taking into account a students budget (or a poor man's budget, like mine) it is possible to get exactly the right items for exactly the right price but it takes a lot of time and energy (also a bit of fortitude/courage to resist the many compromises possible). Unfortunately, you gave in to a compomise and a compromise is rarely the right solution. Sorry, again.

It looks as if you are the odd man out on this one, at least one of the few detractors. As for me I have seen the jacket in person and while the styling is modern and a bit different from any argyll jacket I wear, I was under the impression that what I was seeing was a simply a modern kilt jacket. I say this as someone who has worn kilts for quite some time now. If you look at this photo it shows Nathan and myself wearing traditional kilt jackets and Colin wearing his jacket, notice the line of the opening for the sporran looks very similar with all 3 jackets. I will grant that there are styling differences I have Gauntlet cuffs, Nathan is wearing a jacket with the same cuffs you find on a Prince Charlie and Colin's jacket has a cuff detail you might find on a Crail style jacket, and no epaulette. However to me at any rate there is nothing wrong with the jacket Colin is wearing, it may be a bit modern for some of us but as a modern take on the kilt jacket goes I think it is perfect for summer wear as it is no doubt thinner thah even the thinnest tweed.



Another thought is that everyone who saw the jacket in person thought nothing of it and when this photo first appeared nobody on the forum or elsewhere questioned it all. This all tells me that the it is indeed successful in the role as either kilt wear or with trousers. Lets face it, if the jacket was that far off I am sure Colin would not have had to point out the provenance of the jacket.