Military Tartan Kilts ???

[Braw Cathairneach]

How do all’ya’all wear your military tartan kilts? The only photos I’ve seen of the U.S. Coast Guard military tartan kilts are worn as a band uniform complete with horsehair sporrans, and a modified uniform jacket. I strongly suspect that U.S. military veterans wear their respective military tartan kilts as mufti, but this is only conjecture on my part. What say ye?

[Geoff Withnell]

How do all’ya’all wear your military tartan kilts? The only photos I’ve seen of the U.S. Coast Guard military tartan kilts are worn as a band uniform complete with horsehair sporrans, and a modified uniform jacket. I strongly suspect that U.S. military veterans wear their respective military tartan kilts as mufti, but this is only conjecture on my part. What say ye?

Well, that's largely true, but one must remember that the U.S. military tartan kilts are not (with a few minor exceptions) NOT official uniform items. So they are, by their nature, mufti, or civvies. I wear my Leatherneck kilts (I have both a box pleat and a knife pleat) formally - with black argyle, white shirt, black bowtie, etc. to say the Marine Corps Birthday Ball; or casually - see my avatar.

[Riverkilt]

Leatherneck is such a beautiful tartan and it goes with so much. Maybe because of the heat I often wear my military tartans with just shirts. Here's with a t-shirt and military theme jacket.



Also wear them with replica jackets. I wear the Royal Air Force tartan (with permission) to honor my father's service as a fighter pilot in the RAF in 1942. Adding a replica RAF jacket works for me.



But just because I buy a military tartan to honor a relative's service doesn't mean I don't also wear the tartan with civie stuff just like any other tartan. Extends the wardrobe. This is the U.S. Army tartan with a college hoodie.



Or here's the Navy tartan with a replica Navy baseball team jacket.



Bottom line for me is to wear and enjoy my military tartans in addition to wearing them as "just military."

Right now jonesing for the Dress Blue Marine tartan Steve created and is having woven...what can I wear it with...???

[longhuntr74]

I wear mine formally...


With my Scottish American Military Society uniform...


Or just for casual wear...




I tend to wear my boxpleat (3.5 yard) Black Watch kilt more often than not for casual wear (or activities like hiking, etc.) in lieu of my U.S. Army tartan kilt...but that's more a function of it being lighter weight (both in pounds and temperature), lower yardage, and not caring much about what happens to it...it's my all purpose kilt. The U.S. Army kilt was MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE and gets reserved for slightly better occasions in general.