Do any of you do casual kilt or full dress?

[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.

[The Q]

It's funny to see movies like Braveheart etc that show people in kilts riding horses- wasn't done AFAIK.

Half the Highlanders in the old days wore kilts, half wore trews, and it would be the trews for horseback.

In the Highland regiments, throughout the period when Officers were on horseback for active service, they wore riding breeches, not kilts, when mounted.

I would Not be so sure of that , in the areas of the highlands that the Kilt was the way of dress, would you go home to change to trews if you didn't have any? You may have a horse (more likely a pony) to get around if that was your need, but would you wear a different style of dress to everyone else? The wearing of trews in the Army is not relevant to civilian life. After the 45 yes you would wear trousers as travelling on Horse back would put you in danger of meeting those who would not approve of a kilt.
But between 1500 and 1747 only the rich would have had different sets of clothing for horse riding ( and being painted in them)

[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.

[Tasty Rabbit]

I wear my kilts casual , usually with hose & sporran - flashes & sgian depending on my mood . I'll wear a tshirt - maybe a vest with whatever footwear fits the day's acitivity . I don't rreally go to anything that would require dressing it up too much .

[OC Richard]

I would Not be so sure of that, in the areas of the highlands that the Kilt was the way of dress

That's the thing: the kilt never was THE way of dress, only A way of dress.

From what little evidence there is, kilts and trews seem to have been equally popular, and not mutually exclusive. That is, the kilt was originally just the "mantle" wrapped around the waist. With trews the same mantle was wrapped around the torso instead.

Trews are arguably the more ancient Celtic costume, dating back to Roman times at least.

Mounted people were usually people with money. The could afford various outfits.

[Martin Septim]

I've never had the opportunity to dress formally while kilted, so I've only gone casual, wearing a Blackwatch sport kilt, boots, hose, sporran, and usually a white button down shirt.

[Jimmy]

I live near the Kilpatrick hills in west dumbartonshire, I generally do the hills two to three times per week, up to Loch
Humphrey or the Doughnut hill from Overtoun.
Since doing the 'Kiltwalk' from Hampden Park in Glasgow to Balloch at Loch Lomond Shores, I have found that the kilt
Is the best mode of dress for trekking thru the hills even in cold and blowy winter days.
Certainly wearing the kilt adds to the thrill of being in remote spots in the hills, giving a very comfortable and satisfying
Feeling of well being

[Bamf3k]

I am a newbie to kilting. So I don't have a lot of experiences to draw upon. Nor am I put Scottish descent. I can trace my ancestry back to John Endecot of Devon in the 1600's on my father's side. So I'm sure there's some Celtic connections in my bloodline. But I have always had an affinity for Gaelic and Celtic culture. I like the look of kilts. I have only worn my kilt casually. I don't have any of the kit for formal/ traditional wear, but I will as time goes on.
I don't think in this day and age it should matter what a person wears so long as you feel comfortable. If you're in a formal situation then dress like it.
I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels. I look dapper in a kilt, whether it's worn with a tank top, t shirt or a blazer. I am a rebel and dare to be different. Lol