Alan Cumming OBE

[kiltedsawyer]

Please pardon my ignorance, but what sort of jacket is he wearing? It appears to be almost a sport-coat in it's tailoring, but perhaps a little shorter, and not cut away at the sporran as would be a traditional argyle.

As has been said, it looks good........but the boots....

All the best,
David

[Scotus]

I love the outfit. As a member of the Clan Cumming Society USA who wears that very same tartan, I am glad to see the tartan... and so much of it! The boots were an unfortunate choice, but we've discussed these actor types and their kilted choices before in other threads. Anyway, good to see the tartan I wear done well. I'm a fan of the all tartan outfits.

"Courage!"

[MacLowlife]

KS, if you start looking at some of the commercial kilt sites in the UK, you may find some "modern" kilt jackets, based loosely on the argyle/ argyll, but leaning towards a slightly different, slimmer shape, with less of a cutaway at the bottom and narrower lapels. They also seem to reflect the tendency by younger guys to wear the kilt lower, where the traditional Argyll emphasizes the boxiness of a high waisted kilt and a broad chest. You will note that Mr C ( ooops, SIR A) also has a three button front on his jacket. Between his own slender physique and the long -n- lean styling of his ensemble, it is not surprising that his tailor chose to minimize the curve of the jacket hem. Having said all of that, I think you can call it an Argyll or Crail, just a trim one.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Please pardon my ignorance, but what sort of jacket is he wearing? It appears to be almost a sport-coat in it's tailoring, but perhaps a little shorter, and not cut away at the sporran as would be a traditional argyle.

As has been said, it looks good........but the boots....

All the best,
David

We sell a similar jacket through the museum's gift shop, called a "Wallace jacket.:
http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/wallacejacket.html

I've seen other vendors call the same thing a "Ghillie jacket."

We show ours available in tweeds, but there is no reason we couldn't have one made up in tartan if you so chose.

[Cavebear58]

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[M. A. C. Newsome]

The kind of thing I see listed as a Ghillie jacket is more like this: http://www.men-in-kilts.com/ghillie-jacket.html

What he is wearing is far closer to this:
Slater's Lomond Jacket

It appears to be styled after a gentleman's Hacking Jacket:
http://www.rideaway.co.uk/caldene-ge...t/default.aspx

Cheers, Graham.

The first link you provided is obviously not a jacket -- it has no sleeves. One might call is a waistcoat or a jerkin, but certainly not a jacket.

The second link to the Lomond jacket indeed looks like a hacking jacket tailored to wear with the kilt. But that's not what Cumming is wearing. The only difference between his jacket and the ones we offer under the name "Wallace jacket" (besides the fact that his jacket is tartan, which we can do, as I said) are the pocket flaps. Other than that, they are the same.

[Cavebear58]

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