Quote Originally Posted by Dollander View Post
When your jacket and trousers match, then of course you want your tie to be a different color. Likewise you wouldn’t want to wear a tartan tie with a full tartan suit. But when it’s a kilt with a black/tweed/etc. jacket…I just really don’t get this mentality that tartan accessories will somehow render one’s kilt invisible.

I posted that picture of Sean Connery to show someone who is widely known for being fiercely proud of not only his heritage, but his very identity as a Scotsman, wearing what so many diaspora "Scots” insist is an atrocity. Are you gonna tell him of all people that he’s wearing his country’s national dress incorrectly? I wasn’t even paying attention to the pairing of the long tie with a PC waistcoat. But since it was brought up, is there any real aesthetic reason why it’s such an abomination? And sorry, but I’m too antiauthoritarian (socially speaking) to accept “It’s just not done.” as an answer. Uniforms are for the military…
Looking at the old Photos of gentlemen wearing Kilted attire, NOT the military photos, and basing Traditional kilted attire on that .....to me in this day and age they almost look like costumes.....I know they aren't but to persuade the NEWBIES wearing a kilt that is what they should strive for isn't necessarily what will attract young fellows to wearing a kilt......In those photos what was worn 100, 75, or even 50 years ago was considered smart wear not necessarily traditional.....the young fellows today want to look smart in this time period now......It might be that by not wearing what the OLD Guard says is Traditional, they aren't being Traditional, but in 50 years or maybe even less, they may very well be considered traditional....Is there a distinct line or time frame that differentiates Traditional and Contemporary?...... just my opinion though