The Importance of knowing the Rules of Kilted Fashion

[greenman11]

At the risk of bringing this thread back to the question of rules or guidelines I would offer my kilted (tilted) experience. My first kilt was purchased for my oldest daughters wedding, an afternoon to evening affair. I took a couple of months looking, delving into family history, finally deciding Tartan, package purchase, and supplier. The icon picture shows the results. In order to wear this large investment properly and with the dignity befitting it and my ancestors I consulted a number of publications. The book the aided me the most was 'So You're Going to Wear the Kilt' by J. Charles Thompson 3rd edition. Keep in mind that this was a formal affair and in itself had rules, guideline, etiquette...
Since then I have purchased two more kilts of the 'casual' type, a UTILIKILT for black powder shoots or roughing about, and a SPORTKILT for Irish fests and Highland games. As time goes on I will assuredly purchase more kilts with certain occasions in mind or tartan selections.

My point is that common sense should rule the day. I certainly would not wear my formal dress kilt to a black powder match and visa versa. For some subtitlies, as happens on this site, questions of protocol are posed. Not all quandries can be resolved through books, because after all sometimes different authors disagree. So we throw out a line hoping for reinforcement or clarification. Style is dependant upon the occasion, that is the more formal the affair the more formal the dress, the stricter the rules.

I thank all members who grab that line and pin a note to it.

My regards to all,

[ccga3359]

Okay who wrote the "rules"? And when? Was it when one was covered from head to toe in mis-matched tartans? A definate no-no today. Tastes change or are we supposed to all dress up in Jacobite shirts and swordsman jacket, I'm thinking that they predate PC's and Argyles, brush off sheep dust and you you're formal. 21st Century Kilts is a well respected kilt maker, they seem to buck the "rules", just seem to make things up. Have you seen the Hellraiser/Matrix full length kilt? Put that with a PC and bowtie.

[gilmore]

Okay who wrote the "rules"? And when? Was it when one was covered from head to toe in mis-matched tartans? A definate no-no today. ...

O no, I am so sorry to learn that...

[Raphael]

Have you seen the Hellraiser/Matrix full length kilt? Put that with a PC and bowtie.

I don't think a full length kilt will work well with a PC and a bowtie. However, I can see it being worn with a Montrose Jacket or a GT Doublet.

[JSFMACLJR]

I don't think a full length kilt will work well with a PC and a bowtie. However, I can see it being worn with a Montrose Jacket or a GT Doublet.

Gosh, I hope you are joking here. That full length kilt is nothing but a long skirt. My wife might want one, but I cannot see how that would work at all with a doublet on ANY man!

Call me old fashioned, I guess.