Silk neckties..........????

[creagdhubh]

Go ahead and wear silk neckties, and like Jock said, don't worry about matching! It actually looks better and more smart, when you don't try to match-and that goes for many aspects of Highland daywear.

[ThistleDown]

Of course, even glossy ones. Even tartan, if you must.

[Rob Wright]

Sounds like a heck of a bargain at JC Penneys! Dang, I may need to call and see if they're open today (Easter Sunday... doubtful) and rush over to get some.

They're open, and check their flyers as you come in, they may have some that day only extra discounts going on.

Rob

[ccga3359]

I voted the best I could "yes, but not the glossy ones" even glossy are okay. I'll push the definition of matching if I could, perhaps to start a discussion.

Hyperthetically speaking as I were never a member but was researching for a thread on Canadian tartans.

You are a retired member of the Royal Canadian Regiment.

Your tartan is Maple Leaf so you wear your Maple leaf kilt;
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You don your silk tie in regimental colours;


In neither articles of clothing will you find colours shared, yet they still match, non?





*Thank you Burnett's & Struth for an excellent quality picture.

[Bugbear]

I voted the best I could "yes, but not the glossy ones" even glossy are okay. ...

Depends on how glossy. If people are saying, "oh my, what a shiney tie that is," while shielding their eyes as if looking toward the sun, then it is too glossy. Same goes for crome plated waistplate buckles.

[Paul]

I think silk ties are like non-solid coloured shirts. When they look right, they look right.
Often, a silk tie will look better than a striped shirt, but I'd hate for someone to rule out such options simply because of the material that makes up the accessory.

[MacLowlife]

All of that money saved at Jacques Penne's could go toward this beauty, at roughly $100:

http://www.bensilver.com/fs_storefro...=1125&group=17

Assuming you aren't worried about bumping into a member of the 5th Mahratta at your local...

Ben Silver can rework any of their existing patterns in slightly different colo(u)rways. It would be the work of a few moments to find something proportioned like the XMTS tartan sett and match up the shades. I believe their institutional man may have gone to college with JSFMacL.

The Royal Observer Corps, the RCMP. The China Consular Service, the RMA Woolwich, the Army Day Corps, all look like they would match the XMTS fairly well. Also, the Korean Conflict Veterans' stripe, the University of Sheffield, King Charles Oxford Dining Club, and a host of others.

[Good Egg]

The Hong Kong St Andrews Society tie, pictured below, is blue with a red dragons on a white saltires. Perhaps an XMTS tie should be something similar. A solid colour with a saltire and device of some sort. I hesitate to suggest a mouse, Burn's 'wee timerous beasty' but also a reference to the computer.

I agree with the previous poster that the appropriate club/regimental/society ties work with kilts regardless of the colours involved but from a purely sartorial POV I think that badges on ties go better with kilts than stripes. Also something to do with having a lot of checked and striped shirts.

On the subject of stripes British and American stripes usually fall in opposite directions, apparently something to do with the way tailors cut the cloth. One effect of this is that when related British and Canadian Regiments have the same coloured tie stripes they fall in different directions. British ties fall from the wearers left to right.

[Good Egg]

Thanks for the various welcome backs, very kind - I haven't been away I've just been busy and not posting.

I give you my take on the XMTS tie - in silk of course. The mouse represents Burn's 'wee timorous beasty' and of course the computer. Purple becasue I'm having a purple phase at the moment and it goes well with my kilts.

A bow tie would be good as well.

[JSFMACLJR]

Silk ties are cetainly acceptable with the kilt. Stripes, paisleys, foulards, club, solid, shantung, shiny...they all work.