Show us your shirts

[AKScott]

I kinda feel like I got solids under control, but bring those too. I am trying to get a handle on patterned shirts with a tie and a kilt, but who knows who will learn what.

As soon as I get my photobucket password reset, I post one up.

[AKScott]

Hmm, the editor at photobucket is new. If I figured it out, one image, one "risky" to me shirt, one outfit.

I think since the stripes are all one color this technically isn't a tattersall shirt. Would this be called checkered? What is the right name for this pattern?

Does this work, not work, or might work better if I changed ____.

Thanks. All my clothes are little loose right now. In the last eight weeks I have converted nine cords of standing timber into 16 inch sticks cluttering up the lawn. I have about five cords split and stacked, about four cords as 16" rounds ready to be split, none of my bifurcated garments fit exactly correctly just now either.



Looks ok in the "preview post" view...

[EagleJCS]

I would call that a windowpane check. It appears the cross-stripe has a shadow line (a grey-ish/charcoal line next to the white one, easier to see in the close-up) - or is that a trick of the eye and both vertical and horizontal stripes have the shadow line?

The shirt looks OK to me with the kilt, but I'd level out the tops of the aprons on your Scott Green kilt. (Looks like the rear apron has risen behind the front apron at the top.) Not so sure about that paisley tie or the pink hose, but I'm a more conservative dresser.

[AKScott]

I would call that a windowpane check. It appears the cross-stripe has a shadow line (a grey-ish/charcoal line next to the white one, easier to see in the close-up) - or is that a trick of the eye and both vertical and horizontal stripes have the shadow line?

I think its bad photography. In person, it's white stripes on a blue field.

Appreciate the input otherwise. I am seriously down about 16 pounds bringing in firewood, nothing I own fits right just now; but I am not worried about gaining it back.

I found this one in my photobucket bucket, steel blue or steel grey solid, I get lots of mileage out of this color, have for years. Not a tattersall, but not white either:

[AKScott]

One other solid color shirt that I find very versatile is known to me as French Blue, no idea what other names this shade may have...



I have one more shirt, an actual tattersall up my sleeve, photo here directly after I clean up the kitchen. I have a leg of lamb resting just out of the oven a couple minutes ago.

[aonghas]

I like the darker shirt and light kilt.

You know your hose don't match, dressing in the dark?

[AKScott]

I am guessing this one isn't actually tattersall either, but a recent thread got me to the local second hand store where I came up with these two shirts.

If someone can wear an off the rack size medium, my local thrift shoppe has about seven shirts that I think are "real" tattersall, hat is pale cream to off white base with perpendicular stripes of two different colors. Alas I am a L or XL off the rack.

Anyroad, I got this one, the last shirt I will buy with button down collar. If you haven't seen it, I recently watched episode 1/3 of _Atlas Shrugged_, movie version of Ann Rand's book. The men's wardrobes were all Saxon, no gaelic, but plenty of opportunity to compare button down v- not button down collars.

Again, I am asking does this work? Scottish eye for the American guy as it were. Thanks.

[AKScott]

You know your hose don't match, dressing in the dark?

Not exactly. If you google "monochrome sett" with two tees in the word sett, your first hit will be a thread here dealing with monochrome tartans, IIRC seven clans have them. Anyway, those two images were for that thread and already in my photobucket bucket.

Bring on your shirts aonghas, I am looking for ideas and my kids have limited Christmas budgets to buy me stuff.

[Tobus]

Personally, I like your last pic the best. The white checked shirt with striped tie. It really does have a classic, traditional look. Though I must say, your photo reminds me of why I've gravitated back towards skinny ties. As I'm sure you've noticed, really wide ties are difficult to get shortened up for wearing with a kilt. By the time you get it knotted so it's close to the correct length, the knot is so huge it starts to look weird. And for us guys who are of a more slender frame, wide ties really get out of proportion when they're tied to kilt-wearing length. As I've mentioned before, I'm really starting to think that visual proportionality is as important, if not more important, than colour selection and other considerations. All the rest of your kit looks great, and in good proportion to your frame, but those fat ties really throw it off! To me, anyway.

And on the subject of ties, I'm not sure I would mix a Paisley tie with all of this. It seems to look OK with your white kilt and a plain-coloured shirt. But with a checked shirt and a tartan kilt, a Paisley tie is just fighting with everything else.

[creagdhubh]

As requested by AKScott:

All the shirts shown are either tattersall, bold check, or have a subtle check.