I think this place has developed entirely too much angst...

[Panache]

Here is my two cents


Fashion is an Art

And all Art does have rules (or at least conventions)

The student learns those rules and masters them

The student becomes the artist and must choose where to go with those rules

Now the history of Art is full of rule breakers

Folks like Pablo Picasso, Franz Liszt, Johnny Rotten, David Bowie, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Genet, Arthur Rimbaud, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, and Igor Stravinsky just to name a few.

The funny thing is that boldly breaking a rule in Art can lead you into setting the rules for a whole new discipline.

It can also can lead you straight to looking like an idiot. The History of Art is also full of people that thought outside the box and created absolute rubbish.

To quote David St. Hubbins: “It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.”

The great thing about XMTS is that we have both staunch traditionalists that are sharing the traditional rules (or conventions) of highland dress as well as modernists who are going out and doing something different and very individualistic. You can take both and create your own look.

The best example of this is of course our own Hamish who knows all the rules of traditional highland dress and can play by them better than anyone I know and still can turn around and look smashing in a leather kilt and boots!

Ham dresses to please himself and when he breaks a rule (convention) of traditional highland dress it is because he chooses to and not through ignorance.

Kilts and highland attire are just clothing and you should wear your clothes, your clothes shouldn't wear you.

But know the rules before you break them!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:


P.S. I blame Bill for any and all Angst