Seeking a 'suit' equivalent kilt jacket on a budget

[Jock Scot]

Well yes you could choose a plain black daywear kilt jacket, but we traditionalists in the Highlands of Scotland tend to not follow that route. Tweed would most certainly be the cloth of choice, but greens and browns would be the usual colours with perhaps a subtle, I repeat subtle, pattern for smart events and the more loud window pane patterns for the more rustic and less smart events.

Standard day wedding attire, or, smart suited events where green and brown day jackets in assorted shades are happily worn as suit equivalents, including smart, but non formal, evening events.
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Another example, at a graduation.
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I stand by this advice above for kilt wearers in general.

However I have just read the first post in this thread,-------something I should have have done and didn't------------and in that post I can clearly see that the question was posed specifically with masonic applications in mind. I am not a mason, so I can only make an educated guess on masonic dress requirements. In this case, I can quite see that perhaps a black kilt jacket may well be required and indeed a black tweed kilt day jacket(yes, worn perfectly properly if needs be, in the evening) would be the appropriate suit equivalent to fit the occasion. I would suggest though, that "silver" buttons would not be appropriate and best left to more formal kilt attire.