Plaid Shirt with Solid Color Kilt

[Bugbear]

Hi all, I'm back from the shopping trip. I was at some very large packed stores and all went well. After the sun went down I had to un-scrunch my hose because it got a tiny bit cold. I think the BKs are the way for me to go for casual. Also, in the back of my mind with wool, I'm a little worried about being snagged on things. The canvas just has that jeans feel, and it really does work well with the plaid shirts.

[Ian.MacAllan]

At the risk of being beaten senseless with a pound of wet spaghetti I'd like to mention that there is a pre-Culloden Scots tradition of combining different tartans in a single outfit. I have read that there exists a painting of the battle, allegedly based on the attire of actual prisoners, showing Scots wearing as many as three different tartans simultaneously. This is of course a practice that one would expect the English to deride, but what care we of their attitudes?

My favorite type of shirt for cold weather is a heavy flannel jacket-shirt, which is often available only in plaid. One can often find these in inconspicuous patterns such as the one I'm wearing now: dark green and Navy blue. IMHO there are many popular conventional tartans with which this one does not clash. I see only two disadvantages to these shirts:
1. If the shirt is worn outside the kilt it will cover much of the kilt; and
2. The shirt is so thick that a kilt which fits under it will not fit well over it, in general.

Responses? Opinions? Questions?


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[James MacMillan]

Sure, we have painted illustrations of combining different tartans.

But to me, it doesn't look right. The possible exception, which I haven't tried could be a complimentary tie of a different tartan worn with a vest and coat.

The vest would serve to seperate the tartans. I would not think placing different two tartans together where the tartans are touching would be pleasing to my eye.

Maybe those clans that have many different tartans do this as a rule? Fly Plaid or hat or tie of a different tartan but the same clan? I don't know.

I recently added a solid black kilt to my collection for the sole reason of being able to wear pattern shirts. I think this is the best. Somebody (ChattanCat?) is thinking of putting many tartans together into a patch-work kilt, but I don't know if it ever made it out of the discussion mode.

As a personal rule, I don't mix patterns with patterns, in the same general method that I did with my old "Saxon" wardrobe. Doing so leads one to the mental image of Herb Tarlick from WKRP fame or some used car salesmen, or some golfers....... Garish is a kind word for some of these combinations.

I did, at one time own a Madras jacket, but I never wore it much. In this same vein, I have never owned any trews or other pattern trousers. So maybe I'm brain-washed by the Saxon fashion police?

Maybe not liking to see two or more tartans together is a conditioned reflex, but, with me at least, it took.

I don’t do it.

[Charlie Mc.]

Maybe those clans that have many different tartans do this as a rule? Fly Plaid or hat or tie of a different tartan but the same clan? I don't know.

If we are talking about pre culloden era then it was long before clans had official clan tartans. What tartan you wore was more a function of what you could afford and what the local weavers could produce. Tartans made with imported dyes were a way to show off wealth.

[RockyR]

...there is a pre-Culloden Scots tradition of combining different tartans in a single outfit. I have read that there exists a painting of the battle, allegedly based on the attire of actual prisoners, showing Scots wearing as many as three different tartans simultaneously....

...Questions?

Yes, I have a question. Did they wear different tartans (up to 3?) together on purpose? Were they trying to confuse or blind their oponents in battle?

(My post is in jest, in case you didn't catch my humor)

[Riverkilt]

Hellya!









Until we can find a Hawaiian shirt cut like a Scottish jacket seems best to wear them open with a t-shirt under...know that may be asking a lot on the desert though.

Ron

[Bugbear]

Hellya!









Until we can find a Hawaiian shirt cut like a Scottish jacket seems best to wear them open with a t-shirt under...know that may be asking a lot on the desert though.

Ron

Hey Ron, I am talking about exactly what you said. A t-shirt with the Hawaiian shirt open It is loose enough that it doesn't cause a problem with the heat... Half the problem, out in the desert, is keeping the direct sun off everything. It wouldn't be Scottish though, LOL! Hmmm, why wear the t-shirt...?

In my mind, and all I have to go by is what I see in my mind, the solid color kilt looks very good with a hawaiian shirt worn open and outside the kilt. A kakhi kilt conveys the essence of a grass skirt, perhaps. I think the black kilt would also work quite well... The Magnum P.I. look...