Having no Scottish ancestry, I don’t want to have others believe that I’m Scottish but just a man liking to wear a kilt as a garment. Just like women who, depending on fashion, will sometimes wear tartan kilts, tartan skirts, and tartan scarves.
Therefore, I shouldn’t wear a polo or a t-shirt or a dress shirt with something like a clan crest on it. Should I wear something embroidered on a shirt, it should rather be something like ‘I’m just a Dane in kilt’. But I don’t and I won’t. Too much.

However, some years ago, I had an H&M t-shirt, which I would wear a few times.


Sport Kilt, 'Loch Ness' tartan.

A problem is, it could be misunderstood, making people think, I needed an excuse for wearing the kilt. I don’t. Neither an excuse nor some special event.

This thread is now also being about what kind of shirt to wear, it seems.

With trousers I’ll wear all kind of shirts and in very many colours, but I always take care that they (and the trousers) are fitting the purpose and in colour harmony with the rest.
With my kilts, it is exactly the same, only that I should never mix a tartan with stripes or patterns, including another tartan.
The kilt is what makes the (visual) difference. I see no reason to otherwise look different, like being overdressed at a beach bar or in a DIY market wearing a ‘wrong’ kind of shirt, a jacket or a tie. Like I should not feel at ease, listening to Bruckner’s 9th symphony in a concert hall, wearing a t-shirt.

In short, I simply replace shorts and jeans etc. by a kilt and, with a few adjustments, leave the rest as is, including the kind of shirt.


Kilt in Holyrood tartan, worn with a t-shirt.


5-yard, 13 oz. kilt in Gunn Ancient worn with a polo.


At a harbour in a 4-yard USA Kilts Casual with an untucked, pink polo.