Quote Originally Posted by BCAC View Post
These are YOUR opinions and you're quite entitled to them but, thankfully, people are allowed to disagree.

1) Why does forgoing the waistcoat help to "make his outfit terrific" (I like waistcoats)?

2) Your opinion (again) is that there's no need for a belt. My opinion is that while a belt is certainly not needed to hold the kilt up, it helps the "look". It always seems to me as if there's something missing if there's no belt.

3) I don't like "simple blanket pins" as kilt pins (as traditional as they are!).

4) I'm not too keen on the brown leather and black shoes, but to each his own.

5) The claret and grey kilt hose seem 'out of place' too. They do not match, bring out, or accenuate any other colour in the outfit.

6) Great jacket, but the 'pocket square' (handkerchief?) is a bit OTT for day wear.

7) I agree with the flashes.

8) Good shoes, but not (for me) black shoes and brown sporran.

9) 'Standard' white shirt (nothing 'terrific').

10) No need for a pin on the tie.

So, the outfit is (imho) OK, but I fail to see where it could be classed as "terrific".

Thankfully we can all have our own opinions and are not obliged to agree
Well, there you go...you told me!

PS. for those interested the day was about 90degrees. We came down from the "bush" 3 hours north of Ottawa from our summer place. Not a day for waistcoats. I rarely wear a belt. I rarely wear that type of shirt with the kilt but it is white because I was burying my father that day. I always travel with a black neck tie, but not always with a white shirt with a funeral appropriate style of collar. And you know what, I ALWAYS wear a handkerchief, ALWAYS. And always white linen when I go to bury my father.