Cummerbund

**Glen48** · 21st October 14, 09:17 AM

Anyone ever see a cummerbund with a kilt before?

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**The Wizard of BC** · 21st October 14, 09:33 AM

In general you use the same conventions as you do with a tuxedo as you do with a Prince Charlie.
You would wear a cummerbund OR a vest. Not both.

**JohntheBiker** · 21st October 14, 10:50 AM

The only time I have seen someone wearing a cummerbund with a kilt, they were trying to hide the effects of a "shrinking" kilt. Not a great look, particularly with a waistcoat. I clearly missed seeing this gentleman at the St. Andrew's Ball. I would have noticed.

**Pleater** · 21st October 14, 10:58 AM

It would hide the white shirt in the gap between a low cut or overly large kilt with a tendency to slide and the upper dark garments, if such was required.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Laird_M** · 21st October 14, 11:11 AM

Yes, I have seen it before and comtemplate wearing one of my three with a kilt, but wasn't sure about the 'formalities' of kilts and cummerbunds...

**WillowEstate** · 21st October 14, 11:14 AM

I've seen them worn as an alternative to a waistcoat in warmer climes but, as Steve says, not both.

**Andrew Breecher** · 21st October 14, 12:22 PM

The cummerbund's function is, as Anne said, to avoid the white "gaposis" effect of your shirt beneath your coat. If you're wearing a waistcoat this won't be a problem. In general with a high-rise kilt it should really be a problem either. The gentleman in the picture above is wearing his cummerbund much too low to make any difference at all, and it just looks like a burgundy sash to me.

**Sir Didymous** · 21st October 14, 12:34 PM

I don't care for it. To each their own.

**Jock Scot** · 21st October 14, 12:39 PM

Not both, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Those of us looking at a modern low cut kilt purchase need to think hard at what their new kilt is going to be worn with. Alright crystal ball gazing is an inexact art and we may not have thought about waistcoats and the "dreaded gap" problem that can often(usually) occur with a low cut kilt. A cummerbund is absolutely NOT the way to solve the gap problem betwixt top of the kilt and bottom of the waistcoat. Better by far, if you must, would be to wear just a cummerbund above the kilt and forego the waistcoat . Just so you know, a cummerbund is not really kilt attire, but will do to rescue a situation, on ocassion.