The August Kilt Pic Challenge: WRONG!!

[Panache]

Alan my friend I will take you up on that challenge!

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How many days till August?

Cheers

Jamie

[Panache]

OK, I'm a few days early.....so sue me!

This months challenge, (by request in my PM's, it was a great idea)....I want to see pictures of you doing it ALL WRONG.

Alan,

I have posted my first kilted outfit photo on XMTS multiple times to help show new members and those new to kilts that we all have a lot to learn when we start out.



With encouragement, positive feedback, constructive criticism, and friendly advice I learned to come up with outfits that were a bit more... acceptable.


When I read your challenge I got to thinking about various comments over the years here on XMTS about certain types of outfit failings. One that often pops up is about outfits being "too matchy-matchy" or having too many tartan elements.

I started to giggle when I thought about how fun it would be to play around with that most familiar of tartans again....BLACK WATCH!

You asked for doing it wrong Alan, here you go!


It's a flying haggis, it's a open stone, it's.....












...BLACK WATCH MAN !!!!!!!



Kilt, hat, day plaid, jacket. shirt, and tie all in glorious Black Watch Tartans of various shades and sett sizes with blue hose and green flashes to insure everything is perfectly matchy=matchy!







Now I can't resist a challenge, so after I took this photo for you and your thread I thought to myself "is there anyway someone could make such a mess of Black Watch work?"



This was my best shot at trying to do so










High fashion or an equally complete tartan disaster? You be the judge!



Cheers ith:


Jamie

[CMcG]

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High fashion or an equally complete tartan disaster? You be the judge!

Darn it, Jamie, you look pretty decent in the second Black Watch picture! I think it might be more the rakish look on your face, the swagger of a good lean on the door, the nonchalant thumb in the belt, and the well-polished shoes, than it is the overabundance of Black Watch...

[Panache]

Darn it, Jamie, you look pretty decent in the second Black Watch picture! I think it might be more the rakish look on your face, the swagger of a good lean on the door, the nonchalant thumb in the belt, and the well-polished shoes, than it is the overabundance of Black Watch...

Colin,

You bring up an interesting point about attitude.

In the first photo I am trying not to bust up because I felt I looked totally ridiculous (the bucket hat was the final straw). In the second photo there was a part of me that thought the outfit kinda worked and I could see myself going to watch a Fashion Show or some other avant guarde sort of event and making a big statement with it (though I would ditch the more casual buttoned down collar Black Watch shirt for a dressier solid green shirt).

So maybe how we feel or "sell" ourselves is more important in an odd way than the actual outfit itself?

Cheers

Jamie

[Alan H]

As has been pointed out, the point of this thread is for each of us to tattle ON OURSELVES.....not to point fingers at someone else.

I actually do have an outfit which I tried on, once and then did a very rare thing. I went and looked at myself in the mirror. If you think I jest when I say that's a rare thing, you should talk to the Luminous Joan, who constantly is telling me to brush my hair, because...well.... I never see my hair, so it must be fine, right?

Anyway, after a glance in the mirror, I removed most of the "ensemble" I had put together and spent the rest of the day naked. (I jest, I jest) I suppose that I could reprise this for the Rabble, and get a pictures taken. It will be rather along the lines of Jamies last two posts, just with a somewhat different color theme.

[opositive]

black watch man could buy some white chuck taylors then "tartan" them up with blue and green magic markers to complete the ensemble.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

You know, Jamie, if that jacket were cut to a proper length of a kilt jacket, and you switched out the shirt to a white one, that outfit would look pretty snazzy.

[Thomas H]

when I started out - the kilt is ok but what was I thinking " Mohawk " ? lol
any way - fun times

[LitTrog]

when I started out - the kilt is ok but what was I thinking " Mohawk " ? lol
any way - fun times

Aw, man, don't knock the hawk--

ROCK THE HAWK!

You're in good company!

[OC Richard]

Black Watch Man is awsome! Hollywood will come a-knockin' with a script idea soon!

About my WRONG, well, I have sinned mightily in the past, the sin being the dreaded American Matchy-Matchy Syndrome (AMMS).

In fact, I'll wager that few have ever gone to such lengths to get it all WRONG.

It was back in the 80s and I was a cheeky young piper with some money and I was working for a Highland Outfitter and I could get anything at cost.

I wanted to put together a nice Day Dress outfit and due to AMMS thought that the more everything matched the better!

Knowing that Balmorals came in a limited number of colours but that jackets could be ordered in a wide variety of tweeds, I bought a nice Balmoral, then went though the tweed swatches until I found the tweed that best matched the Balmoral. I also went to some lengths to find hose the same colour.

Oh, and I wasn't done yet! No, far from it! Because then I got flashes and a necktie the same Claret colour, and actually MADE a bagcover to match!

Here's the result, the ultimate Matchy-Matchy outfit






I actually had it more right before I went to all that trouble, with a vintage (1940s) check tweed jacket I got off a friend's dad



and nowadays I'd never dream of doing things like that