Lovat Green Jacket Pairings

[OC Richard]

The thing I see going on with the Fraser Green Gathering combined with that jacket is similarity of scale.

I know close up it's not really like this, but at a distance that tartan resembles a dark green field with a light-coloured over-check that's a bit smaller than the over-check of the jacket, the overall effect being of two checked garments worn together.

Note that the same pattern-clash doesn't happen with Black Watch due to the Black Watch's over-check (as it were) being far bigger than the over-check of the jacket.

Or with the other tartans due to the overall effect being of a checked garment worn with a tartan garment.

The test of my idea would be to try a plain Lovat Green jacket with the Fraser Green Gathering kilt. That would probably prove that it's not the colour of the jacket, but its pattern, that's causing the visual clash.