Style, Fashion Rules, traditions, Flat caps, and the missing element...

[Carolina Kiltman]

I just have to throw my tuppence in here. What you wear is of less importance than how you wear it!

I have seen blue jeans and T shirts worn in a manner that actually made them look dressy. A lot (mayhaps most) of the effect was due to the way the person wore them.

I know some who could wear a modified feed sack, and look regal in it. Others who no matter what they wear, look like slobs.

Now having said that, I personally always try to look as if what I am wearing fits together whenever I go out into the "market place". What I wear when working in my yard, or shop is entirely something else. Just the way I was brought up and feel comfortable when I do so.

The same holds true when I wear the kilt. Tomorrow I will attend a "Kirkin' O the Tartan", I'll wear a Crail jacket, vest and white shirt and tie. Flashes will match the tie, (and predominant colour of the Kilt). I would not, however, wear my Braemer, nor would I wear a PC, but I fully expect to see others "overdressed", and it does not really bother me.

[The Barry]

I just have to throw my tuppence in here. What you wear is of less importance than how you wear it!

Amen!

[Weasel Mender]

You mean this rubber chicken? Also notice the paring of a Jacobite Shirt and R-Kilt

Be nice to poor Grant
Hasn't this outfit not only entered him into the "Hall of Shame" as a "Kilt Don't",and caused him a sojurn in an asylym. It has frightened females to the point that the only kilt check he will ever get is from a dog!

Weasel

[The Barry]

It has firghtened females to the point that the only kilt check he will ever get is from a dog!

That's a disturbing visual!

[BroosterB1]

EEEW, Yuck; Dog kilt checks, wet cold and unexpected!

[Leprechaun 91]

We must remember a few things here.

1. The kilt was worn by poor people as their daily garb. It was worn to the field and the funeral. It was worn to breakfast and the battlefield. In short, it was the bluejeans or chino of it's day. There was no set of "rules" or even "guidelines" for them to adhere to.

2. One of the reasons women "dig" guys in kilts is because of the belief that to wear the garment takes a certain self confidence that women find attractive. This same self confidence means that we should not be afraid to bend the "guidelines."

When we view the "traditional" kilt, we fail to remember that what we see is what it became after proscription. Highlanders didn't wear pretty P.C. jackets with jabbots. They certainly didn't wear buckle brogues. We are viewing things through the filter of a revived (if not romanticized) style of dress that originated as the practical dress of the rough - and - tumble working man.


If Bluejeans were outlawed, how would they be worn once the prohibition were lifted?

[The Barry]

When we view the "traditional" kilt, we fail to remember that what we see is what it became after proscription. Highlanders didn't wear pretty P.C. jackets with jabbots. They certainly didn't wear buckle brogues. We are viewing things through the filter of a revived (if not romanticized) style of dress that originated as the practical dress of the rough - and - tumble working man.

That is the sentiment that I've been searching myself for. Well put, thank you for saying it.

[shawhighlander]

Speaking of Flat Caps... Here is a pic of Howie from 21 Century Kilts donning the wee cap that makes some of you squeel, haha ith:



Cheers,

[Ancienne Alliance]

He had to be a Robertson
While I may never wear an outfit like my distant cousin there, I say he makes it look ... natural. Comfortable. At ease but not unkempt.
I'll agree that sometimes it's the man that makes the clothes work, and not the clothes that make the man.

Come to think of it, wear did I put my Hawaiian shirt ...

There must be something going on with these Robertson...

Shees... Sorry folks but I just had to post that one again !

On one hand there may be fashion, and then there is just the natural, daily thing for you to do...




Best,

Robert

[CameronTaylor]

We must remember a few things here.

1. The kilt was worn by poor people as their daily garb. It was worn to the field and the funeral. It was worn to breakfast and the battlefield. In short, it was the bluejeans or chino of it's day. There was no set of "rules" or even "guidelines" for them to adhere to.

2. One of the reasons women "dig" guys in kilts is because of the belief that to wear the garment takes a certain self confidence that women find attractive. This same self confidence means that we should not be afraid to bend the "guidelines."

You're my new hero for the week, you get it.


CT - you can tell me what you think I should wear, I'll tell you what I know I'm going to wear.