Is it OK to wear a dress tartan casually?

[gilmore]

Right then let's try all that in kilt terms, shall we? This may raise the odd eyebrow! Don't forget we are looking through a Scot's eyes, in Scotland!

Dress evening = Prince Charlie/Sherrifmuir/Montrose.
Dress day = Black barathea,silver(sometimes black)buttoned Argyll/Braemar.
Smart = Tweed Argyll/Braemar/Crail jacket, perhaps with waist coat (vest).
Smart casual = Tweed Argyll etc..
Casual = everything else.

How about that Ted? Do we still agree? Oh! I can quite understand that Ron, you and others have it a bit warmer/colder over there and that you have to adapt, probably, more than a fair bit!!!

Some of us have to adapt quite a bit at times. Here in the southeastern US, where the Scots ancestors of many of us settled and flourished---probably more than any other region of the4 US--- it not only gets quite hot but humid as well during the summer when many highland games are held in order to accomodate schoolchildren and others during their summer holiday/vacation who are members of pipe bands. The weather isn't usually cool enough to comfortably wear wool until late October or November, and spring comes in March, leaving us only four months or so in which we can reasonably be assured that we won't be sweating in our Scots dress, if we observe the wearing of it correctly. In other words it doesn't make sense to put a lot of money in clothes that one is likely to wear only two or three times a year at most, on St Andrew's Day and Burns Dinner, and maybe hogmany.