Weathered Tartan: Only day wear, or formal wear, too?

[Roderick]

Actually Scotweb has what I consider to be the best cataloque of available tartans in all varieties, including custom weaves ...

Excellent advice! I was really only familiar with Scotweb as a source of finished products and hadn't known that they dealt in the raw materials of kilting, too.

I only have one Freedom Kilt but I consider Steve my kilt maker ...

Awesome. I will check out those reviews, Jamie. Steve's a wonderful human being, and I have all kinds of plans for custom kilts I'd like to talk through with him one day. He made my black dress model kilt, and he's the one I originally planned on having do my tartan kilt. But the idea of a handsewn "tank" was looking pretty romantic there for a bit, so I also was (and still am) considering John as well.

I do take great joy in referring to Steve as "my kiltmaker" when I talk to people about kilts. Even though I have only had him make me one kilt so far.

OK,



I'm gonna fault you for holding a day bottle instead of a proper evening glass...

HA!

And awesome photo, Bradley. My question as to whether or not the weathered kilt can be formal wear is put to rest with that picture! That's a swell tartan.

Thanks again, folks. You all continue to be awesome people.

[JSFMACLJR]

Certainly weathered tartans are appropriate for formal wear. Here is a photo taken a number of years ago of my wife and me on the way to a ball.