Christmas Party attire help?

[Colin]

I like the outfit as well, but are the jacket sleeves too long or is it my eyes?

It may just be the angle, this is a photoshop of an old pic. I will get a new one tonight or at the party on Friday.

I would prefer a black sporran, though the brown fur is OK.

here's the sporran that is actually being worn

it's hard to tell from this photo, but it is actually a very silvery grey. I will be wearing a tie that matches that colour fairly well.

Thanks for the advise so far guys, I will see if I can get a good pic tonight to show what the outfit will infact look like.

[freddie]

The outfit looks O.K. to me. I've got the same problem next week as it's my firm's Xmas party. I hadn't been for a year or two and last year they held it at a fairly expensive country restaurant so I went in full formal evening gear, Prince Charlie, silver sporran etc. I was horrified when I got there as all the other men were wearing open knecked shirts or T shirts and jeans ! I've never seen such a scruffy looking bunch in all my life, but these days it seems to be 'the norm'. The women on the other hand all looked great in their party frocks, but this 'down dressing' fad among men is really bad news. This year they've chosen a town centre 'nightspot', and judging by the photos of the place it's jeans and T shirts at the ready again, but as I'm determined to wear my kilt HOW do I wear it ? Guess I'll opt for my semi dress look, black Argyle jacket with a leather/fur sporran, but even then I'll be over dressed. Oh well, what the heck, the girls will love it - and that's all that matters I suppose.

[Tattoo Bradley]

The outfit looks O.K. to me. I've got the same problem next week as it's my firm's Xmas party. I hadn't been for a year or two and last year they held it at a fairly expensive country restaurant so I went in full formal evening gear, Prince Charlie, silver sporran etc. I was horrified when I got there as all the other men were wearing open knecked shirts or T shirts and jeans ! I've never seen such a scruffy looking bunch in all my life, but these days it seems to be 'the norm'. The women on the other hand all looked great in their party frocks, but this 'down dressing' fad among men is really bad news. This year they've chosen a town centre 'nightspot', and judging by the photos of the place it's jeans and T shirts at the ready again, but as I'm determined to wear my kilt HOW do I wear it ? Guess I'll opt for my semi dress look, black Argyle jacket with a leather/fur sporran, but even then I'll be over dressed. Oh well, what the heck, the girls will love it - and that's all that matters I suppose.

In this case I would simply go "daywear." Nothing wrong with that, and you'll still be the best dressed fella there. My company Chirstmas party is usually pretty ranged from everything from tshirt and jeans to zoot suits! (two guys showed up in two different purple zoot suits last year. :rolleyes: ) Then of course this year there will be me in the kilt. I'm basically going for a "sharp daywear" look. Lovat-grey tweed argyle, white shirt/black windsor, grey kilt hose, Henderson (ancient) wool kilt, and black leathers (plain three tassel sporran.)

[Kilted_John]

The outfit looks O.K. to me. I've got the same problem next week as it's my firm's Xmas party. I hadn't been for a year or two and last year they held it at a fairly expensive country restaurant so I went in full formal evening gear, Prince Charlie, silver sporran etc. I was horrified when I got there as all the other men were wearing open knecked shirts or T shirts and jeans ! I've never seen such a scruffy looking bunch in all my life, but these days it seems to be 'the norm'. The women on the other hand all looked great in their party frocks, but this 'down dressing' fad among men is really bad news. This year they've chosen a town centre 'nightspot', and judging by the photos of the place it's jeans and T shirts at the ready again, but as I'm determined to wear my kilt HOW do I wear it ? Guess I'll opt for my semi dress look, black Argyle jacket with a leather/fur sporran, but even then I'll be over dressed. Oh well, what the heck, the girls will love it - and that's all that matters I suppose.

Could always do a fleece sweatshirt, kilt, daywear sporran/belt, dark colored kilt hose, flashes, and either casual shoes, or a pair of hiking boots. With the boots, if it's cold out, keep the hose up and use the flashes, but if it's going to be somewhat mild, roll the hose down and go w/o flashes. That way, you can show your coworkers the proper way to dress casually.

-J

[GMan]

How was the party Colin? Did you get tons of comments?

[Caradoc]

I've never seen such a scruffy looking bunch in all my life, but these days it seems to be 'the norm'.

I'm unfortunately familiar with that.

Saturday night was my wife's office party. The theme was supposed to be "black and white," and attendees were to make our own masks and bring them for a contest.

My wife wore a very nice white pants suit, and I wore a SWK Nightstalker, black shirt w/French cuffs, cufflinks, black belt with buckle, semi-dress sporran in black leather with silver tassel bells and faux "silver" sealskin front and tassels, SWK Nightstalker flashes, charcoal hose (seeing a "black and silver" theme here?)

I knew ahead of time that some would be very much informal, so I took my black leather jacket with me and did not wear a tie. In that crowd, I didn't wear the jacket anyway.

One gentleman wore a tuxedo. There were a lot of men wearing untucked dress shirts over jeans, and a few buffoons who couldn't be troubled to remove their baseball hats indoors...

We won the mask contest. The prize was a nice little 1GB iPod Shuffle, and I managed to make their President/CEO laugh - he'd said, "I have to admire a man who can wear a kilt."

I replied, "Oh, it's not difficult. All you really need is a waist."

As for the T-shirts and jeans crowd... I've never felt uncomfortable being dressed more formally than those around me - the reverse is what makes me uncomfortable.

[Bob C]

I think it looks just fine as pictured and will look just fine with the darker vest, too.

[Panache]

Beautiful sporran Colin. It does sound like you are going to have an awful lot of grey/charcoal in this outfit. Perhaps a green tie or one of the other colors from the kilt would be good to insert some contrast.

Cheers

[turpin]

As mentioned in the thread on KT's pleating difficulties, "If is looks right, it is right." I think it looks right.

[Colin]

Thanks Panache. I may look for a ancient blue or green wool tie in the next few days, but the idea of a red or yellow tie kind of makes me cringe I am not too worried about contrast, as the tartan is pretty noticeable on it's own. Were this a modern colour tatan, I could definetely see that point.