Monochrome sett pictures here please

[AKScott]

Need help. I have a monochrome kilt and very thin search results here. If you have even just a shirt and hose and flashes combination you think will work, please take a picture and post it. I really feel like I am floundering here.

Not only do I have one, but my local club rugby team is apparently going to play in a monochrome sett come spring thaw, I would like to offer your sage advice to them if you would care to share it.

Local rugby team sett:

http://www.sportkilt.com/product/962...lly-Roger.html


So, pictures.

First, the combination I planned to wear to Christmas Eve services, only the sweater was dramatically longer than I had remembered:



My second choice I think was too much. I wore this and think I got away with it, but I think it would have been much better with a waistcoat of some kind to tone down the claret shirt, a lot. I tried it on with my green tank when I got home, better I think.

[AKScott]

The wife and youngest child are out of town for New Years, helping the eldest child move into a college dorm. I am home with the cat, but I usually dress up for NYE, so what the hay. I do need to get more light into my shooting corner and my hair is frightful. The last time it was warmer than -15dF here was a couple weeks ago, everyone in town has hair very much like mine just now.

I think the contrast between the ancient Dagliesh palette and the stark white/black of my shirt and jacket show pretty well in a couple of these.
here are my current options:

Claret and charcoal hose (one of each):



Medium grey and lovat blue hose, one of each:



Bottle green and ancient blue hose, one of each:



So the grey hose is especially "iffy", but really none of these are as horrible as I had feared.

The best thing I have that is supposed to work, clan green with claret hose for black tie evening wear:




So whaddya think? I will pay US$20 and reasonable round trip shipping if someone will loan me a pair of black/white diced hose to fit my US size 9-9.5-10 feet. I just want to try them on and get a picture up here, I promise to ship them back out within one week of receipt. Open to trying other diced color combos as well.

I am working with Artificer towards a suitable formal sporran with some hair on it.

If I can make the monochrome kilt work with black tie that will likely be about the only times I wear it. I can't imagine spilling barbecue sauce on this thing.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

All of these looks work. I personally think the claret hose look the best of the bunch, with my least favorite being the charcoal hose. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a black leather sporran for evening wear and it looks fine with your outfit.

I would suggest that you do need to show a bit more cuff-- about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. It also seems as if your jacket and waistcoat are a bit long in the body. You might want to have a local tailor trim about 4 inches off the skirt of the jacket, and raise your waistcoat by a like amount. In other words, starting at the hem of the kilt I think you'd achieve a more balanced look if the points of the jacket and waistcoat were just touching the seventh heavy horizontal stripe in the sett (they currently touch the fifth stripe). This will not only make you look taller, but will also show off more tartan and highlight your sporran.

[AKScott]

I lifted an image of Matt Newsome's shephard check hose (clearly in modern pallete) and photochopped them on/in. I got to go find Lit Trog's wedding pictures next...



EDIT: I think I am getting the hang of this.



LitTrog, Matt, thanks for "loaning" me your hose.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I like the look of the diced hose, but I think you might also want to consider going with red and black (or red and white) diced to avoid too much of a monochromatic look. Of the two choices you've shown, I'd opt for the bottom pair as they are more in scale with the size of the sett of your kilt.

[AKScott]

Here is the last of what I have that "might" work. Everything else in my wardrobe, I don't think will work. Tee-shirts with writing on them, plaid flannel shirts, camoflague hunting gear, just no. This is the last of everything that might work.

From here I either need to buy more clothes or get help arranging what I do have.

Grey T-shirt. I decided to trot out the brown leathers just in case. I don't think they work with this shirt. With the right combination, I'll give brown leather a qualified maybe.


Grey sweater. Different hose and black leather. I think the charcoal hose together with the black shoes is not enough contrast, kinda sorta. Grey sporran and black sgian.


Grey/green smartwool base layer. Very dark green with lots and lots of grey in it. i put my khaki colored hose back away after this shot, but they are out there.


Steel blue shirt. If you would rather call it steel grey or blue/grey, I am fine with that. This is the fourth one this color I have owned in the last twenty years and now this one is too small. This is one of my four favorite colors for a buttoned shirt, I'll make sure my next one doesn't have a button down collar.


French blue shirt, another of my favorite shirt colors. Curious if this is just too much darn color, I must be an American to even try on that rig...Ancient blue hose on my right leg, lovat blue on my left leg.

[Panache]

Scott,

Matt Newsome offered some excellent insight into the myriad of options you have with a "monochromatic kilt". With one of these tartans you get the opportunity to wear accessories that frame your kilt in any way that you like. Now unlike Matt I do think you can have some fun wearing black and white (I have an all black wool kilt that I wear with black shirt, hose, flashes etc. on occassion and when asked what clan I am I reply "Clan Destine" ). I think some black/white diced or argyll hose would be great fun to wear with a Prince Charlie coatee with your kilt and really play up the black white aspect of your striking tartan when you have funds to do so.

In truth though so many of the options you present work just fine with both your white/black tartan or the one you linked from Sport Kilt.

However to me...

Steel blue shirt. If you would rather call it steel grey or blue/grey, I am fine with that. This is the fourth one this color I have owned in the last twenty years and now this one is too small. This is one of my four favorite colors for a buttoned shirt, I'll make sure my next one doesn't have a button down collar.

I like these options best of you choices. You can wear either tie with either set of hose/flashes and look great. Best of all it goes with Jock's point about using what you have and not worrying!

Cheers

Jamie

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Hmm. As stated elsewhere, I'm not a fan of t-shirts with kilts.

Looks good. I think I'd stick with the charcoal hose, though.

I tend to think that snug fitting tops (such as this) don't mix well with the kilt, giving it a "cork in a bottle" sort of look. And I agree with you --with this tartan-- the khaki hose don't quite make it happen.

Steel blue shirt. If you would rather call it steel grey or blue/grey, I am fine with that. This is the fourth one this color I have owned in the last twenty years and now this one is too small. This is one of my four favorite colors for a buttoned shirt, I'll make sure my next one doesn't have a button down collar.

Your light blue shirt looks great, and it is always a first class choice. Likewise there is no reason to eschew button down collars if you like them-- which I do. That said, after six pm, or at a formal day time event, I'd go with a white shirt and a spread collar. (This, by the way, is my favorite look of the bunch.)

Again, as with the claret shirt, I think strong colours (such as the claret shirt seen elsewhere) are usually best avoided with "white" tartans unless worn under a jacket and waistcoat, or a sweater. However, when paired with the right tie (the yellow one) and hose (either pair of the ones you are wearing) this French Blue shirt looks the biz. I think that's because it's "bright" not dark, and generally conveys a more self-confident image... which is what style is all about.

All in all I think you've really got the hang of what to wear with your kilt, as well have having all the right things to go with it-- starting with the right attitude!

[AKScott]

250 views, not one comment. I need help. These are the options that I own that maybe might be OK.

I am haunting my local second hand clothing store looking for pale colored anything, button shirt, Tshirt, sweater, I don't care just a lighter shade of pale as it were.

I find myself reaching for my bottle green hose, a lot.

For now I think brown leather, the khaki hose and the medium grey hose are out.

I am thinking about either the green or blue in one of these vests: http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/tw...5-button-vest/
I think I could wear the cranberry red button shirt with either the blue or green vest, I think, maybe. I also have a similar cranberry red in a long sleeved turtle neck, not pictured.

With five colors of hose left to choose from, three colors of garter tie, two sgians and two sporrans, what would you not be caught dead in, and what would you rock?

Please and thank you.

[pascs]

I actually think most of what you have works, except I' not keen on the blue against the PC jacket.
The kilt looks a fraction high on the waist to me, maybe the lack of a belt is creating that illusion because it looks good with the PC jacket.

With the light blue shirt, either hose would work. With the dark blue shirt I'd try a dark grey hose to match the grey of the kilt.

For the PC I like to see non coloured hose so that would be dark grey or probably black to match the jacket, maybe with white flashes to match the kilt? The black/white diced hose look like they'd work too but these are usually pretty expensive.