Style, Fashion Rules, traditions, Flat caps, and the missing element...

[ForresterModern]

DFWII

We are much more aligned now than at the beginning of our discourse. I neither accuse you of being right or left on the spectrum, only somewhere to the right of me. No telliing where I lie on the scale. that is for the general public to decide.
Be well.'

[DWFII]

I neither accuse you of being right or left on the spectrum, only somewhere to the right of me.

I know, no worries. Just more of the same--thinking out loud, so to speak.

[Carolina Kiltman]

I just have to throw my tuppence in here. What you wear is of less importance than how you wear it!

I have seen blue jeans and T shirts worn in a manner that actually made them look dressy. A lot (mayhaps most) of the effect was due to the way the person wore them.

I know some who could wear a modified feed sack, and look regal in it. Others who no matter what they wear, look like slobs.

Now having said that, I personally always try to look as if what I am wearing fits together whenever I go out into the "market place". What I wear when working in my yard, or shop is entirely something else. Just the way I was brought up and feel comfortable when I do so.

The same holds true when I wear the kilt. Tomorrow I will attend a "Kirkin' O the Tartan", I'll wear a Crail jacket, vest and white shirt and tie. Flashes will match the tie, (and predominant colour of the Kilt). I would not, however, wear my Braemer, nor would I wear a PC, but I fully expect to see others "overdressed", and it does not really bother me.

[The Barry]

I just have to throw my tuppence in here. What you wear is of less importance than how you wear it!

Amen!

[The Barry]

It has firghtened females to the point that the only kilt check he will ever get is from a dog!

That's a disturbing visual!

[BroosterB1]

EEEW, Yuck; Dog kilt checks, wet cold and unexpected!

[Leprechaun 91]

We must remember a few things here.

1. The kilt was worn by poor people as their daily garb. It was worn to the field and the funeral. It was worn to breakfast and the battlefield. In short, it was the bluejeans or chino of it's day. There was no set of "rules" or even "guidelines" for them to adhere to.

2. One of the reasons women "dig" guys in kilts is because of the belief that to wear the garment takes a certain self confidence that women find attractive. This same self confidence means that we should not be afraid to bend the "guidelines."

When we view the "traditional" kilt, we fail to remember that what we see is what it became after proscription. Highlanders didn't wear pretty P.C. jackets with jabbots. They certainly didn't wear buckle brogues. We are viewing things through the filter of a revived (if not romanticized) style of dress that originated as the practical dress of the rough - and - tumble working man.


If Bluejeans were outlawed, how would they be worn once the prohibition were lifted?

[The Barry]

When we view the "traditional" kilt, we fail to remember that what we see is what it became after proscription. Highlanders didn't wear pretty P.C. jackets with jabbots. They certainly didn't wear buckle brogues. We are viewing things through the filter of a revived (if not romanticized) style of dress that originated as the practical dress of the rough - and - tumble working man.

That is the sentiment that I've been searching myself for. Well put, thank you for saying it.

[CameronTaylor]

We must remember a few things here.

1. The kilt was worn by poor people as their daily garb. It was worn to the field and the funeral. It was worn to breakfast and the battlefield. In short, it was the bluejeans or chino of it's day. There was no set of "rules" or even "guidelines" for them to adhere to.

2. One of the reasons women "dig" guys in kilts is because of the belief that to wear the garment takes a certain self confidence that women find attractive. This same self confidence means that we should not be afraid to bend the "guidelines."

You're my new hero for the week, you get it.


CT - you can tell me what you think I should wear, I'll tell you what I know I'm going to wear.

[Pleater]

In the first photo of the thread you will note that the gentleman has matched the red flower in the shirt to the red of his kilt - what more needs to be said?

Such care in the selection of attire seems to come with the wearing of the kilt, and after a few years of almost constant kilt wearing I now match belt and footwear, select the colour of top that best goes with the kilt and tend towards a lot more preeking and preening than I used to do.

I have even been seen in shoes, which had long languished neglected as my footwear was either sandals or boots.

My crochet hook has been plied to make berets of different colours to wear with different kilts and I have also taken up knitting needles and begun to make new hose.

If wearing the kilt can achieve such alteration in an ageing female hippy type, it is only natural that men should aspire to perfect their attire - but of course it also brings out the individuality, so what seems good to one can offend the eye of another - but that is only to be expected.

Anne the Pleater