1 Kilt 10 Looks : A Visual Guide to Formality in Highland Attire

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1 Kilt 10 Looks : A Visual Guide to Formality in Highland Attire

Not too long ago a new member to X Marks the Scot.com posted a question about the levels of formality in highland attire. The two of us each thought that the best way to illustrate this was to dig up various previously posted photos and offer them as guide to these various stages or levels of formality as we saw them.

We got to thinking about how often this question comes up, especially for the North Americans on our forum. The world we live in is far more casual than the one of our grandparents' day and children are not generally taught about, or familiar with, expected levels of dress as they grow up.

We thought it would be a useful project for each of us to take a single tartan kilt and come up with ten different outfits that ranged from the utmost casual to white tie formal. This would also be a chance to show how truly versatile the kilt is. To make this as helpful as possible, to the most people, Glen choose the red-based Royal Stewart tartan and Jamie chose the green-based Black Watch tartan for their kilts. These are universal tartans that many own and most are familiar with. Both kilts are traditionally made and of traditional wool tartan cloth.

Using what we have learned on XMTS over the last couple of years and combining it with our own personal sense of style we present this visual guide to help others better understand how to dress up or dress down a kilted outfit.

You will see that between the two of us there are some differences in our approach to fashion and formality. This is very much intentional, but both of us take inspiration from classic highland attire even if sometimes we deviate from its conventions.

Between us we hope to show a range on the fashion scale of highland attire to inspire others instead of a single point to simply emulate.

Best Regards

Jamie and Glen