"Balmoral" Doublet Help?

[Downunder Kilt]

CMcG I think your new jacket will be ideal for black or white tie events. For black tie either buttoned or unbuttoned would suit the occasion, and done up for white tie of course. As for your ghillie brogues with buckles and short laces, I would think it comes into the realm of you adding your own finesse to the outfit. In fact I am attending a black tie murder mystery dinner (set in the 1920's) aboard a train, this friday. I am intending to wear ghillies based upon your buckle attachment design. Good buy and wear the new jacket in good health

[CMcG]

CMcG I think your new jacket will be ideal for black or white tie events. For black tie either buttoned or unbuttoned would suit the occasion, and done up for white tie of course. As for your ghillie brogues with buckles and short laces, I would think it comes into the realm of you adding your own finesse to the outfit. In fact I am attending a black tie murder mystery dinner (set in the 1920's) aboard a train, this friday. I am intending to wear ghillies based upon your buckle attachment design. Good buy and wear the new jacket in good health

Downunder, I recall you mentioning that you had put some buckles on your ghillie brogues. Do let us know how it works out and make sure to post pics, eh?

[creagdhubh]

Downunder, I recall you mentioning that you had put some buckles on your ghillie brogues. Do let us know how it works out and make sure to post pics, eh?

Man, I need to get on that too! I need to add red laces as well (with much credit and thanks to P/M's Gordy Walker and John D. Burgess, naturally)

Cheers,

[MacSpadger]

Looking at the replies here, I can now only add that I must inhabit a world that's maybe just a little bit more formal than most of you.
Yes, I do attend regimental functions, and I take the point that formal has different meaning to all of us. I was taught how to pipe and how to dress by forces members and that's where the heart of my formal dress code lies. Failing inspection is no' much fun. If a jacket can button, it should be buttoned, was a rule of thumb while "on duty". I even have old programmes that give instruction that after supper you can "louse a button", (archaic spelling). Maybe it's a piper's thing, an unbuttoned jacket can cause the bag to slip around under your arm.

Of course, when I'm not formal my missus says I look like Compo from Last Of The Summer Wine

(That's Compo, by the way, no' me. By the way, he has his jacket buttoned.).

Red laces.............John Burgess got his through Jimmy Stewart, ex-Gordon Highlanders. Jimmy once told me he had bought a bunch at a market stall in Peterborough, of all places. Jimmy wears them too, and has some fetching blue/black striped ones for an alternative. I've not asked where Gordon gets his, but he used to get all his kit from Piob Mhor of Blairgowrie. It might be worth a try.

[saxandpipes]

...Maybe it's a piper's thing, an unbuttoned jacket can cause the bag to slip around under your arm.

...

Indeed, you may be right- but I think that's why my (band) Argyll has a chain link:



Cheers,

Michael

[Glen]

Yes, I do attend regimental functions, and I take the point that formal has different meaning to all of us.

As a young and smaller subaltern, I was taught to do the buttons up, but now those same style of mess uniforms don't even come with button holes...