Ewan McGregor Investiture Wear

[Jock Scot]

Fine, but you didn't answer my question. I know you aren't a fan of some of today's popular accessories and to be honest neither am I in some cases. Since the man were talking about is a Scot, I think we can lay aside the home advantage point as irrelevant to this example and get back to the point. Does the fact that he is wearing ghillie brogues and white hose actually make this outfit "not a lounge suit equivalent or rather is he wearing a lounge suit equivalent of which some Highland gents may not be fond?


It's not like he is wearing diced hose, patent pumps and an evening sporran...

I have thought about this for quite a while before replying, as I am aware of the rather silly "Toff" and "snob" comments being bandied about here at the moment. I am also not going to directly comment about a specific person's attire, as he may not even be a member here and did not himself ask for comment. I will say though that this person's choice of attire is his choice and will leave it at that.

Speaking generally, I consider attire such as you describe as the bog standard, general pupose, do-it-all, Jack of all trades master of none type kilt attire sold by the dozen to those, perhaps unknowing customers, who purchase this sort of attire from some pretty poorly informed, cynical even, vendors . A drop down tie for day attire, change the tie to a black bow tie and perhaps a change of shirt and you are good to go for a minor formal black tie event. It works, but not very well and and in no way would I call any of it traditional. I will also add that as lounge suit equivalent it fails to impress pretty comprehensively. However there are many in Scotland who do wear this sort of attire quite happily, but in my experiance you will find few from long term kilt wearing families dressed thus.