Shirts & Argyll Jackets

[MacWage]

This question should not be taken as a criticism of anyone's personal choice,I would be very interested in your answers though.

I have noticed a couple of comments from people on this thread regarding The Balmoral Jacket and The Crail Jacket being seen as a "dressier" style than an Argyll Jacket.This is news to me and perhaps I have missed something over the past 50 odd years.

I have asked several of my friends here in Scotland and they,like me, regard the three styles of jacket as just a variation on the same theme.Or,perhaps this is a modern trend?

That's how I've seen them. They are the SAME cut and style, just with different cuff trim decor.
What "dresses" them up or down is more the accessories and the material.
Black with silver trim tends to be "nicer," while tweed with bone or leather tends to be more "casual."

[Panache]

...I have noticed a couple of comments from people on this thread regarding The Balmoral Jacket and The Crail Jacket being seen as a "dressier" style than an Argyll Jacket.This is news to me and perhaps I have missed something over the past 50 odd years.

I have asked several of my friends here in Scotland and they,like me, regard the three styles of jacket as just a variation on the same theme.Or,perhaps this is a modern trend?

I believe this is how The Kilt Store advertises them. The logic I imagine is that the cuff design on the Braemar, because it is the same as a Prince Charlie, is the most dressy of the daywear jackets. The Crail with it's plain cuffs would be the simplest, thus the least formal. The Argyle gauntlet cuffs are then left to fall in the middle. I imagine the jacket's material would be the overall important factor for level of dressiness (i.e. Black wool Crail jacket would be more formal than Braemar in tweed). I find all the styles handsome but I am more drawn to the Braemar cuff desgn over the Argyle's gauntlet cuff.

Cheers

Jamie

[Streetcar]

To dress down an argyle, I prefer a colored dress shirt, open collar with a black T-shirt underneath:

Such as here.

I've also got a midnight blue that I like to wear with the jacket when a tie doesn't seem appropriate.

[James MacMillan]

My shirts are the one thing that translate very well into kilted attire. The only problem (if it can be considered a problem) is color and pattern.

I wear only solid pattern shirts with the tartan kilt. I do not own a solid color kilt, but I want to get one, so that I can wear some of my beloved Hawaiian shirts!

I choose the shirt color and pattern to fit the event or time of day. i.e. golf shirts for golf, formal shirts for evening wear, causual shirts for casual wear.

All this seems pretty elemental to me.

A formal frilled or front pleated white or light colored shirt goes very well with the formal evening jacket. Other colors go well for casual wear with a jacket, and solid color golf shirts go well with almost anything else.

Of course I live in Southern California, where "golf attire" with jacket or otherwise is generally accepted at most accassions short of then high formal.

So why would you change your shirt choices, just because you have traded the hated cloth tubes (THCT) for a MUG or kilt?

The only thing that has changed is that you don't have on THCT !!!

[Monkey@Arms]

So why would you change your shirt choices, just because you have traded the hated cloth tubes (THCT) for a MUG or kilt?

The only thing that has changed is that you don't have on THCT !!!

I'm inclined to agree. I was concerned that the epaulets and PC style buttons of the black Argyll/Braemar wouldn't work with less-formal shirts, but Streetcar and BEEDEE's pics prove otherwise.

Best regards,

Jake

[Galician]

I'm attending a wedding reception soon and have decided to take advantage of this thread to submit myself to a critique of my kilt suit. You can see it here. It's an Argyll I got from the Kilt Shop with a kilt by Geoffrey Taylor in the NYC Tartan. Do I look presentable, guys?

[Colin]

I have only ever worn my Argyle (charcoal tweed) with a regular dress shirt and straight tie. I am just not a bow tie kind of guy even though I had to wear one for work years ago.

[Jock Scot]

Can some one tell me how to do those wretched quote things please?

Galician,that looks pretty neat to me.Is that a white collared shirt that I see?It is!Then you cannot go wrong!

Colin,you can wear no other sort of tie, other than a straight one, with a charcoal tweed jacket,in my humble opinon.

[Colin]

Colin,you can wear no other sort of tie, other than a straight one, with a charcoal tweed jacket,in my humble opinon.

That's my thinking of it as well

[Bob C]

That's my thinking of it as well

Agreed. Here's a pic of me and some friends in our Argyll jackets at a kilt night last year.