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    Margaret Morrison's Pelt Nan Creach

    One of those "I must have" moments that make financial responsibility your doormat.

    https://morrison-sporrans.co.uk/prod...c48cfa81&_ss=r

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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchy View Post
    Still working on shirts; all the ones I have are somewhere around fifteen years old and can't button the neck on. I also ordered along with it a tweed jacket and vest. Regrettably, I have no mirror other than the medicine cabinet or anyone around to take photos.

    Could use a little direction on shirt colors. Just picked up a black(easy choice), and thinking a dark or mid blue.
    Depending on the tweed, a dark tan or even brown shirt might look good though I think that hose which are on the same lines might be required in this case - not always required but I think with the strength of the blue in the tartan, needed here.
    I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
    -- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchy View Post

    I ordered a tweed jacket and vest.

    Could use a little direction on shirt colors.
    The tweed jacket and your sporran both point in the direction of traditional Day Dress, and for Day Dress the traditional thing would be white "tattersall" check, or plain.

    The same shirts would be worn regardless of the colour of tweed and the colours of the tartan.

    Here's the shirts I have in my closet. You can see the sort of collar, not the common US point collar, and not button-down. They all have variations of the "tattersall" 2-colour equidistant-check pattern.

    I saw shirts like this all over the place in Britain but here in the USA they're scarce as hen's teeth.



    I have three tweed jackets, charcoal grey, Lovat green, and brown.

    I wear any of those jackets with any of my kilts and wear the same shirts, ties, bonnet, and hose with any of those jacket/kilt combinations. Co-ordinating can happen but in general there's no attempt at "matching" except when I'm doing the thing which was very popular in the 1920s through 1950s which was to match the hose colour to the tweed colour (picture at right).

    The modern thing is for the hose to contrast with the tweed of the jacket (other photos).

    Last edited by OC Richard; Today at 08:49 AM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchy View Post
    Oh, and this too:

    Attachment 44568
    That is very cool!

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