Kilt and necktie in matching tartan?

[WolfmanJack]

What does the rabble think of Andy Stewart's kit here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSB_BiNSZo

[Jock Scot]

What does the rabble think of Andy Stewart's kit here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSB_BiNSZo

A perfect example of what makes many a Scot cringe. The damage that TV and music hall Scots "personalities" have done to the Scots image will haunt Scotland for many years still to come.

[figheadair]

A perfect example of what makes many a Scot cringe. The damage that TV and music hall Scots "personalities" have done to the Scots image will haunt Scotland for many years still to come.

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[thescot]

A perfect example of what makes many a Scot cringe. The damage that TV and music hall Scots "personalities" have done to the Scots image will haunt Scotland for many years still to come.

Jock, my friend, after viewing that video, I, too, will be haunted for many years to come! I guess the singing was fine, but I couldn't get past the fact that his mother dresses him so funny! The tie! . . . The hose! . . . Oh, the humanity!

The same could be said for southerners: if a person has a sounther accent in a movie, he's either crooked or stupid. Kind of the way men seem to be pressented in almost all modern TV programs.

Oh, well. let's just watch that tartan tie thing!

[Panache]

The thing about wearing tartan neckties with a tartan kilt is that even if they're the same tartan, the sett size is usually different (as ties will generally use a smaller sett so you can actually see the repeat). This makes it look strange to me, as if they go together, but only by accident.

What does the rabble think of Andy Stewart's kit here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSB_BiNSZo

His outfit is...err...one that I would not choose to wear myself

However he does provide a good example of why a tartan tie running straight into the tartan kilt isn't terribly flattering. To me it looks odd with different the sett sizes (as Tobus mentioned) running straight into each other. A muddled sort of look where neither the kilt nor the tie has any distinction from the other yet they don't blend together. A waistcoat would have helped his outfit. Actually his outfit needed quite a bit of help, but a waistcoat would have been a good start!

Cheers

Jamie

[HenryT]

What does the rabble think of Andy Stewart's kit here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSB_BiNSZo

As far as Andy Stewart's rendition of the tune is concerned, I would quote Col. Jock Sinclair, "Yon's a cheesy tune; you'll no play that."

Henry

[McClef]

Somehow Mr Cumming manages to carry it off IMHO

He is very much an individualist and that is not always to the bad.

He even wore two sporrans whilst highland dancing in a version of Nicholas Nickleby and got away with it!

[SlackerDrummer]

As to the the tartan necktie with a kilt, there are those with bona fides who don't and there are those with bona fides who do. There is no "right" or "wrong"; the choice is yours.


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[AFS1970]

I am generally not in favor of the matching tie and kilt but more because of the differences. I remember my mother teaching me that if you try to match two similar colors they will always look off but if you try to contrast two dissimilar colors they might actually compliment each other.

When I first got involved in Kilting there was a "gentleman" who I often saw at highland games near me. He was pointed out as a shining example of what not to wear. I do not remember the tartan but it was bright yellow. Just about everything was either this tartan or white. White hose with yellow tartan flashes, yellow tartan kilt, white shirt, yellow tartan tie, and to top it all off a yellow tartan glengarry. All one could say was Oh My!

[MacSpadger]

As to the the tartan necktie with a kilt, there are those with bona fides who don't and there are those with bona fides who do. There is no "right" or "wrong"; the choice is yours.

Yes, I have seen clan chiefs and pipers who have won the gold medal at both Inverness and Oban wearing tartan ties with their kilts. Nae'buddy died. These are folk that have been very much brought up "in the tradition". Just like other storms in teacups, like belt loops, etc, it's all about individual choice.

Andy Stewart: That brought back memories of the White Heather Club on telly when I was very young. I hated it, my Granny loved it.
Worse was to come. It became popular, and thereby this kind of dancing was introduced into local schools, (Ah'm spikkin' Aiberdeenshire here). At the age of about 6, (when all you want to do is collect frogs, shoot with your catapult and play at sodjers and also know in your heart that girls are the spawn of Beelzebub), we were forced to hold hands with girls and dance to accordian music in the gym hall. I'm surprised I am not relating this tale from a psychiatrist's couch.