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    Quote Originally Posted by ShaunMaxwell View Post

    Ever order from Scotland Shop? The embroidery looks good but web businesses pics sometimes fid about the quality.
    "Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thaining thu"
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    Quote Originally Posted by COScotsman View Post
    Ever order from Scotland Shop? The embroidery looks good but web businesses pics sometimes fid about the quality.
    Nope. Just providing links to alternatives to what seemed like a steep price for polo.

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    Some of you may be interested, that I have never worn a "polo shirt", or a T shirt for that matter, in my life. Also, I have never worn a shirt with a logo embroidered on it or, with a button down collar. I think probably, most of my friends and acquaintances of my age would say the same. Personally and for what it is worth, they are not a look that enthuses me.
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    When I got my first kilt and began to frequent the various Highland games in my part of the world, I purchased a polo shirt with the "clan" (not really a thing in the Lowlands) garter and buckle device on the left breast. I wore it a few times before abandoning it for short-sleeved, collared shirts of the type you can get from Cabela's. Given the fact that it's hot more often than not in my part of the world, I most often wear something like the shirt pictured below with a kilt, except for on those rare occasions when it's cool enough to break the tweeds and tattersall!



    Photo from many moons ago at the oh-so-muddy Grandfather Mountain games in Linnville, NC.

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    Having no Scottish ancestry, I don’t want to have others believe that I’m Scottish but just a man liking to wear a kilt as a garment. Just like women who, depending on fashion, will sometimes wear tartan kilts, tartan skirts, and tartan scarves.
    Therefore, I shouldn’t wear a polo or a t-shirt or a dress shirt with something like a clan crest on it. Should I wear something embroidered on a shirt, it should rather be something like ‘I’m just a Dane in kilt’. But I don’t and I won’t. Too much.

    However, some years ago, I had an H&M t-shirt, which I would wear a few times.


    Sport Kilt, 'Loch Ness' tartan.

    A problem is, it could be misunderstood, making people think, I needed an excuse for wearing the kilt. I don’t. Neither an excuse nor some special event.

    This thread is now also being about what kind of shirt to wear, it seems.

    With trousers I’ll wear all kind of shirts and in very many colours, but I always take care that they (and the trousers) are fitting the purpose and in colour harmony with the rest.
    With my kilts, it is exactly the same, only that I should never mix a tartan with stripes or patterns, including another tartan.
    The kilt is what makes the (visual) difference. I see no reason to otherwise look different, like being overdressed at a beach bar or in a DIY market wearing a ‘wrong’ kind of shirt, a jacket or a tie. Like I should not feel at ease, listening to Bruckner’s 9th symphony in a concert hall, wearing a t-shirt.

    In short, I simply replace shorts and jeans etc. by a kilt and, with a few adjustments, leave the rest as is, including the kind of shirt.


    Kilt in Holyrood tartan, worn with a t-shirt.


    5-yard, 13 oz. kilt in Gunn Ancient worn with a polo.


    At a harbour in a 4-yard USA Kilts Casual with an untucked, pink polo.
    Greg

    Kilted for comfort, difference, look, variety and versatility

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