Flashes

**Joseph McLaren** · 16th June 09, 07:21 AM

It just seems like basic smartness and tidiness to me. Tidier than I usually bother to be, I might add, but then I'm neither a prince nor a chieftain! However, I seem to remember yesterday's picture of the 'Cock o' the North' from Keepers of the Kingdom had an extravagant length of spare yellow flash billowing from the eaves of his yellow hose. With that title though, I would expect a bit of Dandyism to be a prerequisite...

Two other things strike me:

why don't more people wear 'real' garters, as opposed to the false ones? They look better in my opinion, and for very little outlay raise an outfit a couple of notches above the norm.

Secondly, the chief, like the Prince, is an excellent advert for wearing a brown sporran with black shoes. It seems wrong at first, but with every new picture I'm more convinced of how great it looks.

**Highland Rogue** · 16th June 09, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by Joseph McLaren

Secondly, the chief, like the Prince, is an excellent advert for wearing a brown sporran with black shoes. It seems wrong at first, but with every new picture I'm more convinced of how great it looks.

Black shoes (usually a regular dress shoe and not ghillie brogues) are what is mostly worn with the kilt in Scotland by those who know how to wear it; although there is certainly nothing wrong with wearing brown shoes for daywear and casual occassions. But if you wear the kilt for both dressier and undress occassions, black shoes will get you by for both; brown shoes look out of place with more formal attire.