Too Traditional?

[rondo]

In short, maybe we should be discussing "overly casual" rather than "too traditional".

That is what the Contemporarily Made Kilts and How to Wear Them sub-forum is for

Contemporary does not have to mean "overly casual" and frankly I have seen a few contemporary kits that dress up rather nicely. One can dress in a contemporary style and still be quite smart looking [some of 21st Century Kilts offerings come to mind]. I have a made to measure jacket on order, mandarin collar, corduroy fabric, modern cut, it will be quite nice and more fitting for my locale.

I realize this is the THCD forum: I take cues from this forum, but the suggestion that contemporary means "overly casual" is silly. And I do realize that you were tongue in cheek somewhat [with the ]

Rondo

[CMcG]

Contemporary does not have to mean "overly casual" and frankly I have seen a few contemporary kits that dress up rather nicely. One can dress in a contemporary style and still be quite smart looking [some of 21st Century Kilts offerings come to mind]. I have a made to measure jacket on order, mandarin collar, corduroy fabric, modern cut, it will be quite nice and more fitting for my locale.

I realize this is the THCD forum: I take cues from this forum, but the suggestion that contemporary means "overly casual" is silly. And I do realize that you were tongue in cheek somewhat [with the ]

Rondo

Yes, my comment about the Contemporary sub-forum was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek and also a bit sarcastic. Nonetheless, much of the discussion in that forum is overly casual when measured by the standards of THCD. If one wants to discuss wearing a tee shirt and flip flops with their kilt, the Contemporary sub-forum is the place to do it. Sure, modern kilts can -- and do -- get dressed up and people can -- and do -- wear traditional kilts in a contemporary way that is also dressy. But I think the Contemporary sub-forum tends to follow the trend of the last hundred years towards increasing informality of attire versus adhering to more traditional categories like day wear, morning dress, black tie formal, etc.

I look forward to seeing your new jacket over on THAT part of Xmarks

[rondo]

Yes, my comment about the Contemporary sub-forum was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek and also a bit sarcastic...
I look forward to seeing your new jacket over on THAT part of Xmarks

My kilts are mostly Trad [3] or Historic [1] but as someone else mentioned when temps are triple digit [F] it gets a might uncomfortable

Hopefully, I can show contemporary done right...I am looking forward to the new jacket.

Rondo

P.S. Sorry for the derail...please continue.

[David Thorpe]

...reach in the sock drawer and grab the first thing you reach...

I just can't bring myself to doing that. I'm not so OCD that everything has to match exactly but colors that clash actually hurt my eyes.
Besides, there are a pair of cream hose in there. If Jock Scot were to see them, I'd catch a berating for sure.

[SlackerDrummer]

I just can't bring myself to doing that. I'm not so OCD that everything has to match exactly but colors that clash actually hurt my eyes.
Besides, there are a pair of cream hose in there. If Jock Scot were to see them, I'd catch a berating for sure.

Of course traditionally speaking one only owns one kilt (perhaps two), so presumably you don't own any hose that would clash. Am I right, Jock?

[HenryT]

Of course traditionally speaking one only owns one kilt (perhaps two), so presumably you don't own any hose that would clash. Am I right, Jock?

Traditionally, this is the case.

[Art]

I've gone from barefoot and tank top to full kit. Just wear it!

[David Thorpe]

Of course traditionally speaking one only owns one kilt (perhaps two), so presumably you don't own any hose that would clash. Am I right, Jock?

I don't follow. A guy couldn't have one kilt and a full sock drawer and still be "traditional"?
No matter. My tartan addiction has taken me beyond one kilt already, so by your standard, I am decidedly non-traditional anyway. I can live with it.

[Jock Scot]

Of course traditionally speaking one only owns one kilt (perhaps two), so presumably you don't own any hose that would clash. Am I right, Jock?

At present I have only one kilt and have done now for about ten years. There was a time when I had a wardrobe full of inherited family kilts to wear when they fitted me. However, they have all now been recycled amongst the family as and when. As they were ALL of the same Clan tartan, of various hues, it followed that I know what works with that tartan, so dipping into a drawer of hose, grabbing a shirt from the cupboard, ties from the rack etc., is just a matter a grabbing whatever.

If I might say so, many of you chaps are adding to the complications------and expense-------by owning more than one Clan tartan, or many kilts of differing colour schemes. If we, for a moment, ignore the traditional aspect of Clan tartans and the Scots view on the matter, it just seems to be all rather un-necessary to me, why make things complicated?

Do I always get the colour schemes, even with the hap-hazard method "just so", even after 7 decades of kilt wearing? NO!

[SlackerDrummer]

I don't follow. A guy couldn't have one kilt and a full sock drawer and still be "traditional"?

If you only owned one kilt, why would you buy (and therefore have in your sock drawer) any kilt hose that clashed with it? The whole thing gets complicated with the owning of many kilts (which is the part I think is not as traditional).