Kilt: Outfit or Garment?

[ChromeScholar]

Let's see...

Outfit

1. A set of clothing, often with accessories.

2.a set of usually matching or harmonious garments and accessories worn together

If you wear any accessories with your kilt (kilt pin, belt, sporran, etc.) you are wearing an outfit. If you color coordinate your clothes to your kilt, you are wearing an outfit.

The kilt is not, by itself, an outfit. It is a garment. However, as soon as you don any other article of clothing, or accessory with that kilt, the kilt becomes a part of your outfit.

I never wear an outfit of any sort.

Guess what? A suit does qualify as an outfit.

[Robinhood]

ChromeScholar said:
Guess what? A suit does qualify as an outfit.
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If you saw me in a suit, you might
reconsider. Trust me, there are
ways to keep a suit from being
pretentious. (Clodhoppers are a good
start.)

[macwilkin]

ChromeScholar said:
Guess what? A suit does qualify as an outfit.
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If you saw me in a suit, you might
reconsider. Trust me, there are
ways to keep a suit from being
pretentious. (Clodhoppers are a good
start.)

A suit (or a kilt, for that matter) being an object, is neither egalitarian or pretentious -- it's how the person in it acts.

T.

[Alan H]

Reminda me of a story.

My best friend Dave got married qute a few years ago. Now, Dave is a violinist, so they had a string quartet at the wedding. Dave' s mom played Cello, Margie's sister (Margie is the bride) played viola. Dave's aunt, who plays in the orchestra of the Chicago Opera, played violin and Dave's little brother Don also played violin. They were all dressed very nicely, in dark clothes to not detract ir distract from the music.

I showed up dark slacks and a summer weight navy blue sportcoat and tie. All the groomsmen were in dark suits, two-piece. Most of the other men were similarly dressed, so I was the one down-dressed....all except for Mike.

You see, Mike swore he'd never wear a tie...EVER... He didn't want to "conform", always wanted to be the rebel, the intellectural rebel, see? No caving in to society for Mike no no! A "tie" represented slavery or something. Pants with a crease in them implied moral and intellectual decrepitude. And so the picture of all us high school buddies at that wedding is kind of interesting....Seven or eight dark suits, one dark blue jacket, white shirt and tie and grey slacks (me) and then Mike........in blue jeans and a pink and blue striped t-shirt.

Years go by. We all have jobs of one sort or another, including Mike. I suppose he doesn't wear a tie to his job, but then I don't, either. Where is that "rebel", now? What mark of honor it is, now to not wear a tie? If he going to rebel against everything then what's he doing with a wife and a mortgage and a "real job" at a textbook editing firm? And so whenever I look at that picture you know what I think? I think...."Mike put his stupid snobbish reverse elitism higher than a simple request to look nice at his friends wedding."

Obsessing over color-coordinating the contrasting stripe in your flashes with the frame of your sunglasses is a bit much. Taking 90 minutes to get dressed in the morning is pointless. But the other end of the spectrum, basically giving the finger to the world and insisting on looking messy as a statement of your politics or philosophical bent is just plain dumb, IMHO. Use some common sense, get up in the morning and get dressed appropriately for the occasion.

[Alan H]

A suit (or a kilt, for that matter) being an object, is neither egalitarian or pretentious -- it's how the person in it acts.

T.

I couldn't say it any better. Spot on. A tie and a suit don't impart virtue or vice, and neither do dirty jeans and a t-shirt. Same for a kilt It's the appropriateness of the clothes for the situation, and morre important than that, even, is how the person wearing those clothes treats the people around him...that counts.

[Robinhood]

I guess you guys still miss the point.

I don't dress myself for anyone but
myself. I don't wear an outfit. I
wear what I decide is appropriate
for me, in the situation I will be
in.

I wear clodhoppers.
I wear a kilt with clodhoppers.
I wear a suit with clodhoppers.

It doesn't matter if you think it
is appropriate, I think it is. And
no, it is not an outfit.

I wear a sporran with my kilt. This
gives me a place for my keys and
wallet. It doesn't make it an outfit.

I probably will also wear white socks,
regardless of the color of my shirt.

The ONLY important matter is how I
treat those around me.