Christmas Gift to Myself: A Full Formal

[TandemGeek]

Having experimented with wearing my black & olive drab utility kilts and tartans as casual weekend attire with sweaters and boot socks pushed down on work boots for the past couple months, I decided to go all in with a formal kilt to replace my tuxedos at holiday black tie events this year. This also gave me the opportunity to acquire a kilt and plaid in my family (Wallace) tartan, in addition to the McDonald and Black Watch that I picked up as starter kilts.

The photos are not all that great as they were taken 'round midnight on Christmas with a phone camera on my first trial fitting of the entire kit. The fly plaid was clearly too low in the front and I'm still experimenting with the various different ways of folding and or gathering the plaid to find the right fit for my somewhat small frame: not a lot of real estate there to work with.

Anyway, I hope to have it sorted before our New Years party this coming Saturday when I'll debut it in public. That said, I did get a lot of positive feedback from friends on the trial wearing photos that were posted to Facebook.