Jacket and waistcoat

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This is great, and I daresay exactly what I'm looking for. You're right, though, it's certainly not cheap -- I reckon I'll have to save up for awhile.

How's the fit? I see the only sizing selection offered is the chest measurement.

When I lost all my highland wear (along with my house and almost everything else I owned in a California wildfire in 2017, my older son set in motion a family project to resurrect it. First to appear was a simple but elegant tweed jacket from Kinloch Anderson in Edinburgh. NOT cheap, but very versatile, particularly in charcoal grey tweed. K-A's advertising is liberally laced with "By Appointment to HRM…" so I think that may be what you've seen in pictures of the King without epaulettes, fancy cuffed sleeves, or metal buttons on his jackets:

Later, I added a waistcoat. Although I probably wear an Argyll tweed jacket a bit more often, I'm very fond of this one as well.

I just checked USA Kilts's website and do not find a jacket this simple on offer from them, but I may be visiting them around "Tartan Day" in a few weeks, and I'll try to remember to ask if they ever offer something like it. On their website, the closest I can find is a Braemer jacket and waistcoat, but there's no delete option for either the metal buttons, epaulettes, OR fancy cuffs, and they say it's a stock rack item in the store. But, even with a waistcoat it's more than $200 less expensive than the jacket available at K-A.

[Jock Scot]

This is great, and I daresay exactly what I'm looking for. You're right, though, it's certainly not cheap -- I reckon I'll have to save up for awhile.

How's the fit? I see the only sizing selection offered is the chest measurement.

Also of note, the superb McRostie sporran is shown to advantage in the picture..

[jsrnephdoc]

Also of note, the superb McRostie sporran is shown to advantage in the picture..

But NOT on their website, which displays only 4 daywear leather sporrans.

Here in the colonies, I'll be visiting USA Kilts in about 2 weeks (along with my younger son, who thus far has avoided catching the Highlandswear dress virus). I'll be looking at their range of dress sporrans. What are the X-Marks members' opinions of something like this:

[Jock Scot]

As you are asking, complimentary comments fail me I am afraid.

[User]

But NOT on their website, which displays only 4 daywear leather sporrans.

Here in the colonies, I'll be visiting USA Kilts in about 2 weeks (along with my younger son, who thus far has avoided catching the Highlandswear dress virus). I'll be looking at their range of dress sporrans. What are the X-Marks members' opinions of something like this:

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Full disclosure, I'm not Scottish. To me, that sporran looks like a fluffy dog's face.

But maybe it would help to let you know some more of my personal tastes, in case you disagree with my fashion sense.
I don't like fluffy sporrans, long hair sporrans, Prince Charlie jackets, or tuxedos. If you like those things, then you should probably disregard my view on that sporran.
(I don't care if other people wear those things, they're just not for me.)

[jsrnephdoc]

Full disclosure, I'm not Scottish. To me, that sporran looks like a fluffy dog's face.

But maybe it would help to let you know some more of my personal tastes, in case you disagree with my fashion sense.
I don't like fluffy sporrans, long hair sporrans, Prince Charlie jackets, or tuxedos. If you like those things, then you should probably disregard my view on that sporran.
(I don't care if other people wear those things, they're just not for me.)

"Other than THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

Seriously, I used to have at least one or two occasions per year to wear a tux. Even then, I'd defy the conventions a bit. I had a bow and cummerbund in Robertson Red Dress tartan (an actual kilt in that stoplight red I always thought just TOO much), but those little splashed of colorcried out from my neck and middle far more often than did regimental black (and many would say MY diversion was criminal). But I LOVED wearing that tux. I feel the same about my PC. I picked it up, used, from a used stuff tent at the Bitterroot Highland Games in Hamilton, MT a few years ago for almost nothing. It looks "OK," but my opportunities to wear it are few. Still, every time the issue DOES come up, I fantasize about visiting a highland clothier to have one made to measure, because when worn properly, they look AMAZING!

[User]

"Other than THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

Seriously, I used to have at least one or two occasions per year to wear a tux. Even then, I'd defy the conventions a bit. I had a bow and cummerbund in Robertson Red Dress tartan (an actual kilt in that stoplight red I always thought just TOO much), but those little splashed of colorcried out from my neck and middle far more often than did regimental black (and many would say MY diversion was criminal). But I LOVED wearing that tux. I feel the same about my PC. I picked it up, used, from a used stuff tent at the Bitterroot Highland Games in Hamilton, MT a few years ago for almost nothing. It looks "OK," but my opportunities to wear it are few. Still, every time the issue DOES come up, I fantasize about visiting a highland clothier to have one made to measure, because when worn properly, they look AMAZING!

Well there you go. That's why I offered those extra details. If you're into tuxedos and Prince Charlies, then you dress up more than I do. So maybe the sporran is hitting that part of fashion that you enjoy and I avoid.

[jsrnephdoc]

maybe the sporran is hitting that part of fashion that you enjoy and I avoid.

Hey!!! We have the SAME couch! But our pooch is an English lab; if she had long hair but still shed as much as she does now, I could MAKE the sporran myself from her leavings.

[User]

This is what my brain sees.
But if you like it, who cares what I think.

[spr0k3t]

Full disclosure, I'm not Scottish. To me, that sporran looks like a fluffy dog's face.

Almost like Chewbacca if you ask me. Just a little more taste than this: https://www.reddit.com/r/kilt/commen...g_a_chewbacca/

I don't think I could pull that one off. Maybe a fox fur would be better... but I definitely like the cantel.