Highlanders Discuss Highland Attire

[Jock Scot]

Jock,

I thank you for your comment on buttons, but some of us nervous types are now worried about being OVER dressed. Here in the benighted American South, many men wear a navy blazer with metal buttons, with or without a tie. It may symbolize formality or it may simply be a place to put things ( more pockets). Lately, black blazers have turned up and also navy blazers with bone buttons (which look suspiciously like suit jackets wha has lost their trousers).

I am wondering about that metal buttoned Argyll, in navy or black wool- is it too dressy to wear to church or a garden party? Would it stand out as an Americanism?

Thanks
M'll

In my view, a blazer is not a blazer unless it has metal(brass) buttons.

As to your question and as I am not a church goer other than weddings and funerals I could not be relied upon giving an accurate answer! I will try though. I would never dream of going to many things in a morning suit, a formal wedding, Ascot, Buckingham Palace would be exceptions I suppose. The black barathea, silver buttoned argyll being the equivalent, would be completely out of place at a church service as it would be at a normal garden party.In my humble opinion, yes it would stand out as an Americanism, but as an American in the Highlands it is expected that you chaps will get it wong!LOL