"Balmoral" Doublet Help?

[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.