THCD, Not THCD

[Dileasgubas]

I would like to comment on this outfit - I think that it is fantastic! You've got a great looking kilt, paired with a nice linen vest made for wear with a kilt, and what looks like a linen shirt. A great outfit for warmer climes. The hose, while perhaps a bit ostentatious to some, add contrast and show some personal flair. I think that you have built a practical outfit suitable for the climate in your local area, and added some nice touches that make the outfit yours. To my eye, there are lot of things done very well here: nice individual pieces that go well together, proper fit, use of colour, appropriateness for the climate, and overall simplicity. It works for me. Congrats!

I can get on board with most of those; the only one I'm still out on is hair.
I think the formality of a sporran should come down to the cantle more than anything; I know that sounds like I beleive in "semi-dress" sporrans, but hear me out; the hair sporran I made really can't be dressed up beyond tweed (not just because it's brown). It's not TOO far off the tracks as old school sporrans go, so where's that leave it? They went out of style, but I don't think all hair sporrans are the same as a silver cantle'd white bandsman sporran.

I wear this one more than my "normal" day sporran, mosty because the pouch is bigger, but also because I like the extra "Swish" and "swagger" up front as well as behind!

[Chaps]

I do love reading these types of discussions regarding what constitutes THCD; however, in Southern California I rarely see anything that even comes close apart from pipe bands which I believe were excluded earlier. I have been to Highland games, Burns night, and Tartan Days. I rarely see anything that even comes close to THCD. It is much more common to see a hodge podge of Sportkilts and poor fitting acrylic kilts and little thought to distinctions between day wear and formal wear. I guess geography plays a large role in this. For my part I try to follow the THCD guidelines in spirit though with a Welsh surname the closest I can come by the letter of the law is to wear my ancient clergy tartan. Still, I find the guidelines helpful despite my ancestry and fondness for flat caps (though I do own a balmoral).

[JohntheBiker]

We can all thank Jock Scot for this quote:

" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.

I think that it is very much on point for this discussion. Such discussions about THCD help to inform my choices, but they are, after all, my choices about what I will feel comfortable in wearing.