Where to get a high quality Ghillie Shirt (100% cotton)

[figheadair]

Informal? I suppose you can wear whatever you like. Personally, I always wear a dress shirt. But that's just my sense of style. Tattersall is an old English shirt pattern that looks good with a kilt, and might be popular in Scotland due to proximity and age. But, you'd need the Scots on this forum to confirm or deny that. I'm just speculating.

A casual day last summer. That said, the hose were new and I wanted to given them an outing. I'd normally wear plain hose for such days.FB_IMG_1721459791875.jpg

[User]

A casual day last summer. That said, the hose were new and I wanted to given them an outing. I'd normally wear plain hose for such days.FB_IMG_1721459791875.jpg

Oh, that's a fantastic look! I hope to own kilt hose like those someday.
What's that brown band with metal discs on the top of your kilt?

[figheadair]

Oh, that's a fantastic look! I hope to own kilt hose like those someday.
What's that brown band with metal discs on the top of your kilt?

The brown band is cotton twill tape, it, in varius colours, was popular for binding the top of a kilt from the second half of the 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Matching tartan band, which only match at the front of course, became popular with massed production in the second half of the 20th century. That does not mean that there weren't kilts with a tartan band earlier; there were, but they were less common and usually used a different tartan for the band.

The metal disks are buttons for braces and are the original ones from c.1920 which I reused when the kilt was resized to fit me.

[Steve Ashton]

If you want an actual historical pattern for a shirt you can find them in a variety of places. I have used both of these and can vouche for them both.

Folkwear has a shirt they call a Mississippi River Boatman's shirt. I have used this pattern and it is nice.
https://www.folkwear.com/en-ca/produ...603627e8&_ss=r

I did up this outfit for a customer who wanted to attend an event that was specifically "historical". So of course he let me try it on.




Black Snail has a pattern that they call Georgian Empire Regency men's shirt. I have made this one too.
https://blacksnailpatterns.com/en/pr...6-pdf-download


Then it comes down to what fabric you choose. If you are looking for a historical type of fabric may I suggest "Linsey-Woolsey".
https://www.wmboothdraper.com/produc...insey-woolsey/

Cotton was known and available in the 1700's in Scotland but was imported from India, Egypt or the Americas so was expensive. The same with Silk.
If you prefer Cotton I would look on both of the websites I mention above as they sell fabrics that are close to what would have been used. But you do not want to go with modern Cotton shirt fabrics like you would find in a modern Oxford shirt. When doing shirts that look sort of historical I found that the blue and white striped pillow ticking give a nice look.

But - I'm not one that usually dresses in "Historical" clothing. I usually say that if I would not wear a shirt with trousers, I would not wear it with my kilt.

[PiperPadre]

A Hawaiian shirt looks better with kilt.

[User]

A Hawaiian shirt looks better with kilt.

That's a fun mental image. But that combination is a bit too flamboyant for me. I've worn Hawaiian shirts, but always with jeans. Wearing the two together I feel would send the message that I'm seeking attention.

[PiperPadre]

That's a fun mental image. But that combination is a bit too flamboyant for me. I've worn Hawaiian shirts, but always with jeans. Wearing the two together I feel would send the message that I'm seeking attention.

Although I don't think a Hawaiian shirt would look good with kilt, it would look better than a ghillie or Jacobite, or whatever they call them.