Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
here in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands of Scotland conservative dressing is the preferred and most common way of thinking for kilted gentlemen during the day...
Yes that was probably the point of the middle-aged Scot telling a teenaged newbie (me) to wear "no tartan above the waist" or to put it another way the tartan of the kilt was quite enough.

This was in 1977 and the "kilt hire" impact had yet to be felt, the Highland Dress of this gent being pretty much the same as it was in the inter-war period. His dress went a long way to forming my ideas about "traditional Highland Dress".

His dress was smart but never ostentatious. The most dressed-up he got was, when piping at very formal Evening events, a Regulation Doublet, seal Evening sporran, tartan hose, buckled brogues etc. No dirk, no plaid, no hat, no pins, etc. (He served in the Cameron Highlanders in WWII as a piper.)