Civilian Spats

[Nick]

I'm a proponent of spats, but I personally wouldn't wear the ankle spats with the kilt. Those are definitly for wear with trousers. I have a few pair, including those ones. One difference between the military spats and the ankle spats (besides length) is that the non-military ones cover less of the shoe.

Here's a couple old pictures of a gent in a suit with spats:

Fairly low tops, hard to tell if they're regular ankle spats or not.


Hard to see where they end here, but my guess would be rather higher up.


He's not wearing a kilt, but this gives you an idea of what ankle spats would look like with hose:


Whichever way you go, make sure to post pictures!

[macwilkin]

The gent in question is Sir Harry Lauder.

Todd

[Nervous Jock]

One difference between the military spats and the ankle spats (besides length) is that the non-military ones cover less of the shoe.

More for info than anything else the British Army also had short spats, these tended to have chains rather than straps across the sole of the shoe and were referrede to as "Chained spats", as with many other forms of dress recently they have gone by the by.