Shirts & Argyll Jackets

[Streetcar]

To dress down an argyle, I prefer a colored dress shirt, open collar with a black T-shirt underneath:

Such as here.

I've also got a midnight blue that I like to wear with the jacket when a tie doesn't seem appropriate.

[James MacMillan]

My shirts are the one thing that translate very well into kilted attire. The only problem (if it can be considered a problem) is color and pattern.

I wear only solid pattern shirts with the tartan kilt. I do not own a solid color kilt, but I want to get one, so that I can wear some of my beloved Hawaiian shirts!

I choose the shirt color and pattern to fit the event or time of day. i.e. golf shirts for golf, formal shirts for evening wear, causual shirts for casual wear.

All this seems pretty elemental to me.

A formal frilled or front pleated white or light colored shirt goes very well with the formal evening jacket. Other colors go well for casual wear with a jacket, and solid color golf shirts go well with almost anything else.

Of course I live in Southern California, where "golf attire" with jacket or otherwise is generally accepted at most accassions short of then high formal.

So why would you change your shirt choices, just because you have traded the hated cloth tubes (THCT) for a MUG or kilt?

The only thing that has changed is that you don't have on THCT !!!

[Monkey@Arms]

So why would you change your shirt choices, just because you have traded the hated cloth tubes (THCT) for a MUG or kilt?

The only thing that has changed is that you don't have on THCT !!!

I'm inclined to agree. I was concerned that the epaulets and PC style buttons of the black Argyll/Braemar wouldn't work with less-formal shirts, but Streetcar and BEEDEE's pics prove otherwise.

Best regards,

Jake

[Panache]

Ooops sorry,I went a bit off course.The question was about what colour shirt should be worn with a black Argyll and there is only one answer.White and with collar.

Jake,

I tried that jacket yesterday with a sky blue dress shirt and my beloved F-H.C.A.G. took one look at me and said, with that black jacket it really needs to be a white shirt. She thought a turtleneck would look nice but it would have to be a white one.

Cheers

Jamie

[Monkey@Arms]

Jake,

I tried that jacket yesterday with a sky blue dress shirt and my beloved F-H.C.A.G. took one look at me and said, with that black jacket it really needs to be a white shirt. She thought a turtleneck would look nice but it would have to be a white one.

Cheers

Jamie

See that ccga3359? There is a higher authority than Panache. I am programmed to follow the instructions of a spouse, whether my own, or someone else's.:yes:

Best regards,

Jake

[Galician]

I'm attending a wedding reception soon and have decided to take advantage of this thread to submit myself to a critique of my kilt suit. You can see it here. It's an Argyll I got from the Kilt Shop with a kilt by Geoffrey Taylor in the NYC Tartan. Do I look presentable, guys?

[Colin]

I have only ever worn my Argyle (charcoal tweed) with a regular dress shirt and straight tie. I am just not a bow tie kind of guy even though I had to wear one for work years ago.

[Jock Scot]

Can some one tell me how to do those wretched quote things please?

Galician,that looks pretty neat to me.Is that a white collared shirt that I see?It is!Then you cannot go wrong!

Colin,you can wear no other sort of tie, other than a straight one, with a charcoal tweed jacket,in my humble opinon.

[Colin]

Colin,you can wear no other sort of tie, other than a straight one, with a charcoal tweed jacket,in my humble opinon.

That's my thinking of it as well

[cessna152towser]

My own preference with an Argyll jacket is a white or cream dress shirt with a tie which matches the kilt, though BeeDee demonstrates in his photo that the turtleneck would also work.