I'm one of those who does not try to use the colors from my kilt to decide the colors for the rest of my outfit.
To me, looking at this from an artistic standpoint, if you build all the colors of the outfit using the same colors as are in the kilt - you make the kilt part of the background.
We are peacocks, we want out kilt to be the centerpiece of our outfits and we want the kilt to shine.
So - What I do first is pick a shirt out of my closet. I have more shirts than I do kilts.
Then - I go to my drawer and pick a pair of hose that color coordinate with my shirt. (Notice that I said color coordinate and not match)
Basically I use nature as my guide. Any two colors you can find in nature will go well with each other.
Some people will say that brown and blue don't go together - Well, have you ever seen a tree trunk against the sky?
Once these two choices are made I put my kilt on. It really does not matter what kilt I put on. If the rest of my outfit is coordinated it will almost always work.
And the kilt stands proud as I want it to.
There is no brown in this kilt.
And if you care to look at the 1 kilt - 10 looks thread you will see other examples of not using the kilt as the color pallet of an outfit.
Sometimes things work out that I use colors for my outfit that are also one of the colors in my kilt. OK, as long as I am not pushing the kilt to the background I feel it works.
When choosing an outfit your best friends are a mirror and a girl. Girls are taught all this color coordinating stuff from a young age. We guys don't usually get to go to those classes so we have to come here and ask for help.
So - The best advice is - get dressed and stand in front of a mirror. Does how you are dressed look about like you would look in trousers? OK, it probably works.
Does how you are dressed look like some costume out of "Braveheart" or something out of some catalog from the 1930's? Then you are probably over thinking this whole thing.
You should be comfortable in your clothes. And it is only clothes.
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