Originally Posted by
M. A. C. Newsome
... Ruardi Halford MacLeod, first cousin to the cheif of the MacLeods and president of the Clan MacLeod society, has a white tropical mess jacket that is cut very much like a PC. He has altered it so that the lapels and the cuffs are in the MacDougal tartan (his wife's tartan). He wears it with a 3-button vest in the Black Watch tartan. He wears this outfit with his MacLeod kilt, and knowing him, he probably rounds it off with cadadh hose made from yet another tartan. He can pull this off with elegance! But I don't think I'd reccomend it for everyone...
I would love to see a picture of that outfit.
If Mr. Halford can pull off three tartans on one outfit he must have...err...that is to say he embodies that quality of...err...let's say that this fellow has...hmmm...bother ...what I'm trying to say is that someone who can pull off three tartans in one outfit must have the panache *of Hamish!
Cheers
* sorry folks 
I love this word (obviously) and as Anthony Burgress once noted, there just isn't a good enough English substitute.
Last edited by Panache; 6th November 06 at 06:03 PM.
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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