Accessorizing a Ferguson Weathered

[The Wizard of BC]

The thing to keep in the back of your mind is that there is no requirement to use the colors of the kilt at all. No rules, no laws, no one will give you a ticket for doing something wrong.

If you go to a Scottish Wedding all the guys will have the same jacket, vest, shirt, tie, hose and shoes. Yet each will be in his own Tartan. And it works.

If you approach it from an artists standpoint, the kilt should be allowed to stand out from the rest of the outfit, so using the same or complementary colors pushes the kilt into the background.

Some will find one of the minor, accent colors in the kilt, and use that as the basis of color coordination. Some don't think about the kilt at all and coordinate the rest of the outfit.

It's about looking in the mirror and deciding if what you are wearing looks good to you. No one else can make that call. Look at the whole, not just the kilt. Does the hose color you chose work well with the shirt or perhaps with the tie? Do the colors of those items clash or complement each other?

Most guys today have spent very little time looking at themselves in a mirror. They pull on blue jeans, a T and runners. The same every day. One guy on the street looks much the same as every other guy. Or they dress in a way that makes them stick out as 'different'.

But color coordination is one of those "secret girl classes" that guys don't usually get in school. It is often only when they begin to wear a kilt that they notice or pay attention to color for the first time.

Sort of like a guy who has been in the military all of his adult life. He retires and wakes up one morning and does not have the exact same thing to put on. "What, I can wear red? Plaid? Hey, when did they invent stripes?"

So really, the best advice is to put one outfit on. Take a look in a mirror and make up your own mind if the colors work together or not. If you want, and like, the matchy matchy color scheme, then wear it. Do you like monochrome? Or do you like color and texture and variety?

About the worse thing you can do is imitate the look found on those sites that advertise "The Complete Scottish Highland Outfit." Very seldom will they be what those in the Scottish Highlands actually wear.

[Jock Scot]

The thing to keep in the back of your mind is that there is no requirement to use the colors of the kilt at all. No rules, no laws, no one will give you a ticket for doing something wrong.

If you go to a Scottish Wedding all the guys will have the same jacket, vest, shirt, tie, hose and shoes. Yet each will be in his own Tartan. And it works.

If you approach it from an artists standpoint, the kilt should be allowed to stand out from the rest of the outfit, so using the same or complementary colors pushes the kilt into the background.

Some will find one of the minor, accent colors in the kilt, and use that as the basis of color coordination. Some don't think about the kilt at all and coordinate the rest of the outfit.

It's about looking in the mirror and deciding if what you are wearing looks good to you. No one else can make that call. Look at the whole, not just the kilt. Does the hose color you chose work well with the shirt or perhaps with the tie? Do the colors of those items clash or complement each other?

Most guys today have spent very little time looking at themselves in a mirror. They pull on blue jeans, a T and runners. The same every day. One guy on the street looks much the same as every other guy. Or they dress in a way that makes them stick out as 'different'.

But color coordination is one of those "secret girl classes" that guys don't usually get in school. It is often only when they begin to wear a kilt that they notice or pay attention to color for the first time.

Sort of like a guy who has been in the military all of his adult life. He retires and wakes up one morning and does not have the exact same thing to put on. "What, I can wear red? Plaid? Hey, when did they invent stripes?"

So really, the best advice is to put one outfit on. Take a look in a mirror and make up your own mind if the colors work together or not. If you want, and like, the matchy matchy color scheme, then wear it. Do you like monochrome? Or do you like color and texture and variety?

About the worse thing you can do is imitate the look found on those sites that advertise "The Complete Scottish Highland Outfit." Very seldom will they be what those in the Scottish Highlands actually wear.

Well said Steve. Bravo!

Some of the best advice that you have ever given on this website, in my humble opinion and I find your last paragraph particularly pertinent.