A gent's highland wedding outfit

**Jock Scot** · 19th March 10, 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by MacRobert's Reply

Thanks Paul.

And thanks Jock - a bit early to bed but if you're still awake - I take your point on morning dress. Not so sure which aspects of matching you are concerned about. Would, hose and garter flashes that compliment the colours in the kilt or jacket, be a better way of expressing the idea? Or have I implied that something else should match? I guess the World-wide Webb by default means advice to the world - the webmaster is in Canada.

Thanks Tobus, I'll reflect on that.

The trouble with being the age I am is that the "old boy" needs his shuteye!I think to make your suggestions as helpful as you can to ALL concerned you will have to point out the subtle, but important differences between nations. "Dress" shirts, for example, have a very different meaning in the UK than in the US.

I am very uneasy about even suggesting that flashes, hose, tie, kilt, jacket, should compliment each other at all.

**Pleater** · 19th March 10, 03:59 AM

I think that the rules for weddings in the UK - certainly in England, still follow the rules of the Church of England, that a marriage could not be solomnised at a time when the church would not be open for worship.

Many churches here have two sets of doors, or a screen and side doors, so that the outer ones can be left open - another requirement for weddings - without the congregation suffering too much in the colder months.

I believe these were measures to prevent clandestine or forced marriages.

The modern wedding with an evening disco and the happy couple in attendance is a sign of the times.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Schiehallion** · 19th March 10, 04:01 AM

At a wedding I would suggest to compliment any bride who takes time and care in choosing her dress and those of bridesmaids and the care mothers' take, along with all the other guests, that to compliment the colours of ones kilt with flashes hose etc, is more that appropriate but very much order of the day.

**Jock Scot** · 19th March 10, 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by Schiehallion

At a wedding I would suggest to compliment any bride who takes time and care in choosing her dress and those of bridesmaids and the care mothers' take, along with all the other guests, that to compliment the colours of ones kilt with flashes hose etc, is more that appropriate but very much order of the day.

Absolutely no way! I wear my tartan and that is the only tartan that I will ever wear and many up here in the highlands think that way. No way, ever, will the kilt and attire be changed to fit in with the bride's colour scheme.Some things are not negotiable and changing one's tartan,or attire, is one of those. Any bride that thinks otherwise better go and find another future husband!

**Schiehallion** · 19th March 10, 04:19 AM

My suggestion was that if the bride makes so much effort ... then the groom should also . Not to change his tartan but to compliment hose and flashes with his kilt and to make his appearance one of co-ordination and not a dogs dinner.
It is called style!

**Jock Scot** · 19th March 10, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by Schiehallion

My suggestion was that if the bride makes so much effort ... then the groom should also . Not to change his tartan but to compliment hose and flashes with his kilt and to make his appearance one of co-ordination and not a dogs dinner.
It is called style!

It is all to to with reality. No way, ever, will a Highlander wear anyone Else's tartan when he has his own. Are you suggesting, for example, that the groom is to wear white hose to match the bride's outfit? Sorry, but it just does not happen up here with the local Highlanders, incomers maybe. I suspect the hire companies are, yet again, leading their customers astray with their erroneous advice. For the the locals the bride and her entourage do one thing, the groom stands fast with his attire and does his own thing and amazingly(to some), with tremendous style!

**creagdhubh** · 19th March 10, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

It is all to to with reality. No way, ever, will a Highlander wear anyone Else's tartan when he has his own. Are you suggesting, for example, that the groom is to wear white hose to match the bride's outfit? Sorry, but it just does not happen up here with the local Highlanders, incomers maybe. I suspect the hire companies are, yet again, leading their customers astray with their erroneous advice. For the the locals the bride and her entourage do one thing, the groom stands fast with his attire and does his own thing and amazingly(to some), with tremendous style!

Hear hear!