Do any of you do casual kilt or full dress?

[tweedhead]

I only ever wear the kilt with tweed daywear or with black argyll, black waistcoat and black necktie for evening events. Always with jacket and waistcoat, always with dress shirt and tie, always with a sporran (leather with belt for daywear, artificial fur from FreeRangers with chain for evening wear), always with hose, rarely with flashes, always with monk brogues or brogued boots depending on the weather conditions, and if a hat is needed I picked up a very nice RM balmoral in bottle green earlier this year.

However I wear ties, blazers, trousers, and suits year round whenever I'm not in work clothes, so my formality of dress while kilted is roughly the same as my usual (though I usually wear floral/paisley shirts, so being kilted is typically a step up for that reason alone as I'll pick a solid or tattersall).

I'm in Hamilton Ontario, so with the humid continental climate and my propensity to layer clothing I only wear the kilt in the cooler seasons; for staying cool in the heat (and avoiding the sun!) I stick to linen trousers.

[Freebooter]

Tweedhead,
One of my ancestral lines wass from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, by the name of Gilmore. I think their estate was called Gilmore and is still there.
Dave

[KyleRoy]

Depends on the occasion. For dance classes, often with a T-shirt. For informal dances, a polo shirt or ghillie shirt. for more formal occasions I have 2 crail jackets with waistcoats, and for special events a Bonnie Prince Charlie & waistcoat. Different sporrans according to the formality of the event.

[Alan H]

I'm a blue jeans, Nike training shoes and t-shirt kind of guy. I work in IT at a University in California so nobody bats an eye when I do this. As I've been at this kilt thing for most of a decade now, and since it pains me to ruin clothes, especially if I made them myself, I don't wear my nice wool jobs out for backpacking or doing the Heavy events at the Games.

When backpacking I might wear a tartan polyester-viscose 4-yard kilt, or a camouflage cotton-poylester job that closes with velcro. I don't usually practice the heavy events in a kilt, but at the Games I have a Clan polyester-viscose kilt that works for me and sheds sweat, pine-tar and chalk in the wash.

At the San Francisco Symphony or Burns Night I might wear a nice wool tartan kilt with a more modern-styled navy blue kilt jacket and waistcoat, with hand-knit hose. At work I might wear that same wool kilt with running shoes, hose, a button-down work shirt, and a belt and sporran.

This is all a rather lot of kit, but it's been fun acquiring it.

[OC Richard]

Always with jacket and waistcoat, always with dress shirt and tie, always with a sporran, always with hose, rarely with flashes, always with monk brogues or brogued boots...

I really like that style! Very 'old school'.

Though our weather here is often too warm for such, when the weather and event is suitable I wear a nice vintage Harris tweed check blazer and/or my bespoke tweed waistcoat (seen above) for ordinary "Saxon" wear.

Ankle boots used to be common with Highland Dress. It's nice to see them making a bit of a comeback.

[Micric]

Looking tidy in the kilt is important I think, not a scruff.

Have been known in very hot weather to wear a khaki short sleeved shirt though, leather belt and dark day sporran with wood cantle , so not entirely traditional!
Hose up where they should be though, not down around the ankle.