As a`basic guideline, tweed jackets are not formal, they may be smart, the may be dressed down, they may be well worn out, torn, ragged and battered, they will never be formal, but it is quite acceptable to wear tweed to certain evening events that are not formal. To be clear and perhaps my post was not, black barathea silver buttoned argyll jackets are worn by kilted guests at formal weddings(in the UK they happen in the day hours) but it is the Groom and his family and brides family who wear argyll hose or diced hose( the first eleven) if they so choose. The rest of the kilted guests wear plain hose with their BBSBA.
Tweed day jackets come under several names and argyll, crail and braemar are but three common styles. Basically the same jacket with different style cuffs.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 16th April 15 at 12:58 PM.
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