Argyll- with or without vest?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I have two Argylls-- one is a light grey tweed, the other black barathea. I have two waistcoats that I wear with my black Argyll (but not at the same time!). Both are black and one is a 3-button (as would be worn with a PC) and the other a 6-button (as might be worn with a three piece suit). If the event is "black tie" (ie: tuxedos) then I pop on the 3-button waistcoat and black bow tie and I'm off to the event. If it's a dressy day or evening event (when a conservative suit would be appropriate) I opt for the 6-button vest and a conservative striped tie. I only wear white shirts with the black Argyll, although I tend to favour light blue Oxford cloth button-downs with the tweed. I wear the same same conservative striped tie with the tweed jacket that I wear with the dressier Argyll-- it makes dressing much easier, and frankly I don't care if it tones with the stripes in my kilt. My life is more interesting that worrying about neckties!

[kevinkinney]

With.

It just adds some weird sort of oomph.



Kevin.

[Bugbear]

A question just came to me. I don't know what kind of buttons are on you're Argylls, but I've been feeling uncomfortable about wearing jackets with fancy silver buttons. Is this necessary, or are regular buttons acceptable?

[McMurdo]

A question just came to me. I don't know what kind of buttons are on you're Argylls, but I've been feeling uncomfortable about wearing jackets with fancy silver buttons. Is this necessary, or are regular buttons acceptable?

Ted that all depends on the style of jacket you are talking about, for day wear then the bone or regular buttons would be fine, in fact that is what you'll find on a day wear tweed jacket. for more formal or evening wear then you would expect the black barathea wool Argyll with silver buttons.

[Bugbear]

Ted that all depends on the style of jacket you are talking about, for day wear then the bone or regular buttons would be fine, in fact that is what you'll find on a day wear tweed jacket. for more formal or evening wear then you would expect the black barathea wool Argyll with silver buttons.

Thank you McMurdo. I had just been looking at a post in this thread talking about using two different styles of waistcoat in combination with two colors of jackets... I was trying to get all the buttons to add up.

I guess someone needs to invent interchangeable buttons.