Where to wear clan badge...

[macwilkin]

off topic, but those two fellows' outfits display some interesting combos of plaid/stripe/check/tartan, fashion-wise.


on topic, I've seen folks wear their clan badge on their jacket breast pocket like a blazer patch. I don't know if I'd do that though.

And quite correct combos, I might add.

T.

[Zardoz]

I forgot! A fashion misstep among British peers and clan chiefs is always "quite correct" here! (though I thought MOR would be the first to pop up with that!)

I'll start mixing stripes and plaids right away,

Not!

[macwilkin]

I forgot! A fashion misstep among British peers and clan chiefs is always "quite correct" here! (though I thought MOR would be the first to pop up with that!)

I'll start mixing stripes and plaids right away,

Not!

If you don't believe me, read Bob Martin's book "All About Your Kilt" -- he specifically discusses the concept of "toning" or mixing patterns with Highland attire, which is quite correct, regardless of the wearer's social status.

And for the record sir, I happen to do it, and like it. If you want to a wear a plain shirt and tie, then by all means -- but different horses for courses.

T.

[JSFMACLJR]

I forgot! A fashion misstep among British peers and clan chiefs is always "quite correct" here! (though I thought MOR would be the first to pop up with that!)

I'll start mixing stripes and plaids right away,

Not!

Watch it there, Zardoz! Your attempt to be funny actually calls into question a style of dressing that many, many gentlemen adhere to.

Dress how you like, by all means, but be careful what you say about others. And remember: de gustibus non est disputandum.

[Zardoz]

I'm not trying to be funny,

This guy is, he's the stereotype "tacky dresser" on a TV show;

[Jock Scot]

I forgot! A fashion misstep among British peers and clan chiefs is always "quite correct" here! (though I thought MOR would be the first to pop up with that!)

I'll start mixing stripes and plaids right away,

Not!

I think the picture of the Clan chiefs illustrates perfectly the point that I and others, have been banging on about for some time now. I repeat it again, ".....in Scotland and particularly with highland attire we don't worry about all this matching up nonsense.......". All this matching up idea is considered as a modern dress conceit here and totally unnecessary.Done with thought and knowledge it is far from tacky.

[macwilkin]

I think the picture of the Clan chiefs illustrates perfectly the point that I and others, have been banging on about for some time now. I repeat it again, ".....in Scotland and particularly with highland attire we don't worry about all this matching up nonsense.......". All this matching up idea is considered as a modern dress conceit here and totally unnecessary.

Well said, Jock.

T.

[ThistleDown]

I think the picture of the Clan chiefs illustrates perfectly the point that I and others, have been banging on about for some time now. I repeat it again, ".....in Scotland and particularly with highland attire we don't worry about all this matching up nonsense.......". All this matching up idea is considered as a modern dress conceit here and totally unnecessary.Done with thought and knowledge it is far from tacky.

Exactly the point I was trying to make, Jock. The idea of wearing a belted crest somewhere other than where it was intended -- the bonnet -- seems not to be currently acceptable. Unless it's worn as a kilt pin Who made that decision? Apparently not Cluny Macpherson. And quite obviously he and Dochgarroch are not overly concerned about their sartorial splendour, either. Oh yes, Dochgarroch as chief of the Macleans of the North wears two pheasant feathers instead of eagle feathers. Oh so wrong we hear some say, but they were his father's and he likes them.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I forgot! A fashion misstep among British peers and clan chiefs is always "quite correct" here! (though I thought MOR would be the first to pop up with that!)

We Scots have obviously forgotten that it is Texas, and those who live there, and not the Scots in Scotland, who are the arbiters of good taste in Highland fashions. We have all been misled into thinking that because we, in Scotland, have worn kilt and plaid somewhat continuously for more than 200 years, that the way we dressed, as a matter of course, not costume, was correct when, according to the wiZARD of OZ, we have been badly misled by the examples of our forefathers and peers (and Chiefs and Peers). How foolish have we been? Let us immediately forsake our errant ways and dress as they do.

Let us wrap ourselves in Lone Star tartan, clad our feet in cowboy boots, put on tee-shirts with witty sayings and festoon them with medals earned by others than ourselves, and stow our dignity in armadillo sporrans along with a set of socket wrenches, our cell phone, a meerschaum pipe, the keys to our SUV, a compass, and the Micheline Guide to Dining at American Cultural Events . And thus attired, as "Proper Scotsmen", attend the Renn Fairs, Octoberfests, Quanza celebrations, Sons of Italy clam bakes, Olde English Dickens Christmases down at the shopping mall, and the YMCA Halloween Party. Oh yes, and drop in at the "celtic festival" where one can indulge in more food-on-a-stick and blend in perfectly with the rest of the crowd who are there to celebrate their Scottish heritage on their way to next week's Ludafisk Festival and Chili Cook Off sponsored by the Bulgarian Friendship League as part of National Pirate Week.

Or we can stick to our quaint ways, flawed as they are, and consider the source of sartorial criticism.

[ThistleDown]

Shhhhuuuuuuuuuder and whew! So glad you said all that, Rathdown, and not I.