Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Most agree that a tweed kilt jacket, the equivalent of the Saxon "sport coat", is not a formal garment.
The tweed "kilt jacket" is for casual day wear. Its really, in my opinion, the most useful jacket for day use as one is not dressed up nor down.

The Argyll jacket is an entirely different creature -- neither "fish, flesh nor fowl", it is roughly equivalent to a dark suit, yet it can be worn with a formal shirt and black tie -- although my good friend the "clothes horse" disagrees with this, because the Argyll has notched lapels, and true formal wear should only have rounded ones. Personally, I think they look better with a dress shirt and a necktie, but again, that's just me.
The Argyll jacket (I take one means black here) is really somewhere between dark-suit and dinner jacket. Not really suited to anything really formal but "hand on your hearts": When was the last time ANYONE here went kilted to a formal affair? Most formal events have their own special sets of norms. Most do accept kilts (like the Royal Enclosure at Ascot as "National dress" in lieu of morning suit) but tend to call for a level of ceremony quite a bit more formal than the pedestrian "Prince Charlie". Formal means, afterall, "Formalized".

On the whole one is probably better dressed with an Argyll (black Barathea) jacket than with a Prince Charlie (which overshoots most events and horribly undershoots anything really formal). When a black Argyll is too much then instead of navy (or green) I'd suggest tweed.


I personally don't like the look of a fly plaid with an Argyll jacket
I personally don't like the look of a fly plaid with a Prince Charlie either.. Flying plaid are, I think, when done right more like the a bit of chocolate sprinkles on a fancy cake.