co-ordinate....me?

[macgreggor]

Hi all,

I have only been kilted for about six months . I am very used to looking and dressing , to qoute Bubba, like I am headed out to blow stumps! This morning I found myself standing in front of the closet asking myself whether this shirt or that one would go better with my Blackwatch SWK....and if I could get away with wearing my grey ankle high boots?

Arrrgh! What has happened to me? I buy a couple of kilts, hang around here for a few months and read 'Hamish on Kilting' (no disrepect intended Hamish) and I start to worry about how my CLOTHES match!

Has anyone else noticed the same trend? Please stop me before I accesorize again.

macG

[yoippari]

It happened to me much quicker. First couple of days I would be perfectly happy wearing a tropical print with a tartan kilt. I didn't even use the term print then, just tropical shirt. Print is a style of hand writing. Now I wear solid shirts with tartan kilts and when I get a solid color kilt I will wear my print shirts with it. I have thought about color of socks, I only have one pair of flashes and luckly they... don't clash with either kilt but they may not be the best, I wonder if maybe I should get a pair of normal shoes instead of my steel toe high tops.

But that is only with my kilts. My troosers go with anything, really.

[Riverkilt]

Good timing. I just added seven pics to my gallery, they're on page 6. Used the timer delay thing to take pics of the "outfits" I've worn to work the last two weeks.

As anyone who views them can see I'm still struggling with coordinating things... but AM working on it.

Fortunately there's not much kilt fashion sense out here in the canyonlands to worry about someone snickering too much.

Ron

[MacMullen]

Good timing. I just added seven pics to my gallery, they're on page 6. Used the timer delay thing to take pics of the "outfits" I've worn to work the last two weeks.

As anyone who views them can see I'm still struggling with coordinating things... but AM working on it.

Ron

Ron, glad to see that someone still wears baja jackets besides me. 8-)

On coordination, I'm stressing more about what color my kilt hose should be. Does the natural wool color work with everything? Or should I get a pair of dark wool hose to go with my Black Watch?

[Hamish]

Good timing. I just added seven pics to my gallery, they're on page 6. Used the timer delay thing to take pics of the "outfits" I've worn to work the last two weeks.

As anyone who views them can see I'm still struggling with coordinating things... but AM working on it.

Ron, it seems to me that you have got the matter of colour 'co-ordination' pretty well sussed! You have some (as you Americans might say) "pretty sharp" presentations there in those new photos. Well done, and keep up the good work!

Fortunately there's not much kilt fashion sense out here in the canyonlands to worry about someone snickering too much.

Ron

That doesn't matter at all! Even when there is no-one else to see you, if you know you are looking good and have got it together, then you will feel on top of the world. Besides, you never know when you are going to come across someone who DOES notice these things!

[Sherry]

<Snicker>

I promise, if I see any of you guys checking yourselves in the mirror, I'll be perfectly understanding.


Sherry

[Iolaus]

Has anyone else noticed the same trend? Please stop me before I accesorize again.

macG

Yes! ... and I was just sitting here in my black-faded-to-light-gray jeans and old t-shirt, getting ready to start a thread to ask if I should get a particular patterned cap to go with my Black Stewart! (I'm still gonna start it! ;) )

Well, as long as we remember there's a difference between looking good, and looking "Metro", then I think we're still doing ok.

[Graham]

It's been the same with me macg, identical experience. I never cared about what matched, colour blindness also hindered me, but Hamish and my wife have helped a lot there.

What is the reason for all this change? I guess we all want to look good in a kilt an make kilts look good!

[Big Paul]

I guess I'm a little weird... I've always liked to match.. I must admit that it's gotten far more accute since getting into kilts!

[Wompet]

I guess I'm a little weird... I've always liked to match.. I must admit that it's gotten far more accute since getting into kilts!

Same here, but almost anything goes with blue jeans. But when I was ordering kilt hose the other day (I forget who posted the link to Sierra Trading Post, but thank you) and I'm thinking "Alright, that one should go with the Robertson Red, and those two with the Red or the Hunting, but I need a blue and a gray to go with the shirts I'm likely to wear ..." :sad::-?

Makes me think I should just toss on a UK, my Pendleton plaid shirt in Robertson Red, and a pair of hiking socks - and if anyone asks, I'm a dyslexic Scotsman!