Fit and misfits of online kilt ads or setting odd examples?

[cavscout]

Here the coat is not stressed and buttoned but its clearly a tad large and the sleeves are way too long (in that pose the sleeves should be just short of the wrist bone and a bit of shirt (and cuff links) should show.


Degge and Skinner (who represent Kinloch Anderson in London), by contrast, get it even right on a showroom dummy:

I'd say the first photo above is just fine. Perhaps it could be a bit more fitted but for the average person who's wait may fluctuate over the life of a jacket this fitting is a reasonable look and still very sharp. Everything tied together looks very nice.

I may be misunderstanding the point on the last jacket but it does not seem tailored for kilt wear at all. Not personally my taste.

[Nanook]

I'd say the first photo above is just fine. Perhaps it could be a bit more fitted but for the average person who's wait may fluctuate over the life of a jacket this fitting is a reasonable look and still very sharp.

If Kinloch Anderson's model--- and I must stress that I'm rather fond of Kinloch Anderson clothes--- goes out of shape enough to fill the void it still won't fit him. Its simply a coat in want of alteration. The jacket hangs and arms are long as if they were from a winter overcoat and not a semi-formal jacket. Kinloch Anderson does have enough tailors to fix that before a photo shoot.

Everything tied together looks very nice.

Its wonderfully presented but ill-fitting. Really a pity given their high international reputation.

I may be misunderstanding the point on the last jacket but it does not seem tailored for kilt wear at all. Not personally my taste.

The Dege & Skinner coat is clearly not for kilts. For Highland garb they represent Kinloch Anderson. I was just showing how even on a dummy they managed to present a jacket well fitting. Notice how even the shirt gently shows itself and how the jacket falls. I could have just as well chosen pictures from probably any tailor on or around Saville Row.


(Bond wearing a suit from via Barberini in Rome and not Saville Row)