Quote Originally Posted by Al G. Sporrano
My wife and I spent a great Christmas day with family and friends, this was what I was wearing. You can see I finally added a black tie, a semi-formal sporran, and I wore my bottle green hose with black flashes. Everyone loved the look, especially my friend's elderly mother who has a Scottish family history.
Tomorrow we plan to dress up again and take some decent "family" photos of ourselves for next years Christmas cards, but you'll have to wait awhile to see those ones. ;)
Al, what a superb 'look'!

The plain tie is such an improvement but, if I may, I'd like to make one (just one) comment. For the absolutely perfect 'look' I'd say you need to find a plain green woollen tie exactly the same shade as your hose. Whilst I like very much what I see here, you have split yourself in two at the waist! All black above and all green below. A matching green tie would introduce just sufficient 'green' to your top half to break that and to unite both halves.

It is not vital that you follow this suggestion of course, but it would add the icing to an already handsome cake!