1 Kilt 10 Looks : A Visual Guide to Formality in Highland Attire

**Rogerson785** · 21st March 09, 07:35 AM

What a fantastic job, great for the newly kilted and veteran kilt wearers who just needed that push into pairing their favorite rugby shirt with their favorite kilt. A great job indeed, I would love to see Hamish put something like that together but with his various kilts, and perhaps call it the top 25.

**Bart_In_A_Kilt** · 21st March 09, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Chas

Excellent work; thank you to both of you - this should be sticky somewhere.

Regards

Chas

I agree with this... Mods should remove the comments from other posters ( me included ) and move this to the most apropriate thread and make it a sticky. Great stuff.

**acstoon** · 21st March 09, 01:54 PM

No..No!
My reply was most relevant!

**GoodGirlGonePlaid** · 20th April 11, 01:19 PM

Who knew, the kilt is the male equivalent to our ever versatile "Little Black Dress!"

It's all in the accessories.

**wyldathart** · 21st March 09, 08:36 AM

Outstanding show. You guys even made the dressed down look seem classy. I'll be bookmarking this for future reference

Thanks guys

**Hamish** · 21st March 09, 10:03 AM

Oh, well done both of you - Jamie and Glen. I trust you had help with the quick-changes behind the screens.

Something along these lines is planned for inclusion in my 'work in progress' (!) website, and has been for quite a while, although I will reduce the varied 'looks' to about five or six of across each of a number of different kilts. To a certain limited extent I have already done this with many of the kilts in 'The Kilt Kollection' album section of the new site. Although the entire Gallery is not yet completed, the 'Kollection' album is pretty much ready to roll - here's a link: http://kiltedhamish.net for anyone interested. By the way, each thumbnail image can be enlarged by clicking on it. The resulting image will then have a description with details of that kilt's position in The Kollection, the kiltmaker, tartan reference number, etc., etc. Additionally, if you click on the left or right-hand side of the enlarged image you will be taken back or forward to the next image.

However, what I have already done in no way detracts from the more focussed information and guidance provided by our two talented brethren - Jamie and Glen.

Take care,
Ham.

**David Dubh** · 21st March 09, 10:18 AM

Kudos to Glenn and Jamie far a brilliant photo presentation. It just goes to show what highland scots have known for ever, the kilt can go from hard work in the fields or factory to the very coronation of the monarch.

My Lords, Ladies, gentlemen and fellow xmark rabble please charge your glasses. Join me in raising them in a toast to the most versatile garmant in the world.
THE KILT!

**Stratherrick** · 19th July 09, 08:42 AM

Be careful about wearing a red & hite dicing on a Glengarry. If you've never been in a Scottish regiment, sometimes it causes offence. No doubt allowances will be made if you have a foreign accent

Cheers

Bruce

**Phil** · 19th July 09, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by Stratherrick

Be careful about wearing a red & hite dicing on a Glengarry. If you've never been in a Scottish regiment, sometimes it causes offence. No doubt allowances will be made if you have a foreign accent

Cheers

Bruce

I take it the missing letter was a "w"? I raised this once before as I understood that any headwear with such a diced band denoted allegiance to the Crown, hence its wearing by forces personnel.

**macwilkin** · 19th July 09, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by Phil

I take it the missing letter was a "w"? I raised this once before as I understood that any headwear with such a diced band denoted allegiance to the Crown, hence its wearing by forces personnel.

I have been searching for a source for this long-standing myth regarding dicing for quite sometime now; ironically, historian Stuart Reid mentions that Stewart of Garth described the dicing on bonnets as symbolic of the "fesse-chequey" of Stewart Arms, so if this indeed the case, dicing originally was a Jacobite, and not a government symbol.

Reid does discount this theory and states his belief that dicing was really just a decoration that could have been tied into diced hose.

And finally, while some regiments did wear diced glengarries (the Royal Scots, KOSB, HLI/RSF, etc.), others did not. Like many other pieces of military custom and tradition, the origin of this chestnut may be lost to the mists of antiquity.

Regards,

Todd