Vaquero Jacket with Kilt - Another Cultural Stretch

[Riverkilt]

So, if there were kilts in 1832 Los Angeles...maybe...just maybe.

This vaquero jacket is by Golden Gate Western Wear aka Knudsen Hats. They offer no information on it beyond the photo. Not even what material its made of. for $280 one could guess it may be leather.

No clue what sizes its offered in either. Not sure why the basic info is not given. Here's the website http://www.goldengatewesternwear.com/clothes.html

Guess someone in the Bay area will have to visit one of their stores and check it out. Let us know if you do. Apparently there are retail stores in Pleasant Hill and Richmond, CA.

Hard to find the short jackets for kilt wear. A Vaquero jacket would be another option...way out on the fringe of culture blending...but an option.

Ron

[Galician]

Thanks, Ron! I wonder if this would go well with the kilt in the Galician tartan I'm expecting.

[Riverkilt]

Ah Ha!!! See, maybe not such a culture stretch after all.

[McMurdo]

For me anyway I do not see the point of looking for another dressy jacket to wear with the kilt when an Argyll jacket does such a good job at it as is. I do wear my denim jacket and my leather jacket with the kilt but these are for casual settings. I'm really not sure wearing the Vaquero jacket would be a viable option for me, it's kind of like wearing a cowboy hat with a kilt, to me it just doesn't look right.

[Galician]

Ah Ha!!! See, maybe not such a culture stretch after all

Yep, now all I'd need to do is find a dancing horse.

[Galician]

I appreciate your thought, Glen, but--assuming that it works--adding a "hispanic" touch to my outfit makes it mean more to me for my own heritage. That's why I wear a Catalan cap, rather than a Scottish bonnet, when the weather calls for one.

[macwilkin]

There were kilts in early 19th century Los Angeles:

"In Hispanic California, for example, Hugo Reid, originally from Cardross, married a wealthy Gabrieleno woman, Doña Victoria. By this union he inherited two ranchos and two adopted sons, Felipe and José, who soon sported imported kilts and went by the surname Reid. Unfortunately, neither lived long enough to continue the line."

Scots in the North American West 1790-1917 by Fernec M. Szasz (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), p.66.

However, I'm not sure of the historical accuracry of said vaquero jacket.

T.

[McMurdo]

I appreciate your thought, Glen, but--assuming that it works--adding a "hispanic" touch to my outfit makes it mean more to me for my own heritage. That's why I wear a Catalan cap, rather than a Scottish bonnet, when the weather calls for one.

That is why I said for me, I am not telling others what to wear just voicing why it would not work for me. Some of the members of the board are more traditional than others and from a traditional stance wearing that jacket with a kilt would just not work.

I for example do not understand mixing Scottish National Dress with another cultural costume or part of it. To me it diminishes both national costumes you are wearing to a lampoon of the original.

[Riverkilt]

Aye, pushing the edge for sure....but I too can see it as a piece of a kilted person's heritage - or for a regional touch in California - where the jacket is being offered by a local Bay area vendor.

Don't know that it would work at all in Eastern Canada...but in Azatlan - Old California....or with ancestoral connections...or with a tartan link - why not.

To the edge of the envelope and beyond.....

[McMurdo]

Don't know that it would work at all in Eastern Canada

I don't know about Eastern Canada, but Central Canada where I live I think not