I was chatting with my brother today about the relative standardization of Saxon formal wear and the tendency of the kilted folk to avoid it. We wondered how things got to be this way. I stand ready to be corrected, but I came up with a couple of things:

1) the well known independent spirit of the Scot.

2) With relatively few people ( If there are about 5 million souls in Scotland today, how many were there in 1925 and how many of them had occasion to wear formal wear? Of those few hundred or so ( my guess) surely most would have their formal garments tailored (or have inherited them). Unlike the hundreds of men buying off the peg dinner suits in any given week at Moss Bros, they would assert their own individual taste, creating the dozens of different styles of doublets, jackets and coatees we see today.

Or have I got it all wrong?