For Ted's benefit.



Here we have two men wearing Royal Stewart kilts, strolling down the street. Their backs are to us. One is holding a shopping bag. They are both wearing leather jackets. One has white hose, one has black hose. Aside from the white hose, I don't think there is much to critique about the outfits, but the chap with the white hose has paired them with red slip on shoes, which definitely make a statement!



Here we have kilted bar staff. They are wearing Rugby shirts which I assume have the name of the bar on them, so most likely uniform. They are all wearing the same tartan kilt, so again, most likely the pub uniform. The only issue is the kilts are way too long, coming down well below the knee.



Here we have a man in a kilt on the Royal Mile during a festival. He's dressed very casually, with an untucked t-shirt and no hose (or possibly scrunched down hose, there is someone blocking his feet in the photo so we can't tell). However, in contrast to this ultra-casual look, he's wearing a black fur formal sporran with a chrome cantle. It's the sporran that really looks out of place.



This photo is from a party at the Royal Museum. It's a bit of an eye-popper! The two fellows are both wearing kilts in the "rainbow tartan" which I think is one of the most unattractive designs ever made into a kilt (and I usually hold my tongue on such matters!). The sett size is tiny, the colors are extremely bright yellow, red, blue, orange, etc. It's basically just an assymetrical lining up of color after color, and reminds me of the brightly colored fabric one often sees in the craft stores sold around Halloween to make clown costumes. (Ok, Matt, tell us what you really think....) Sorry to rant, but I've always thought that particular design was just really hard on the eyes.

So anyway, both men are in this tartan. The one on the left is wearing scrunched down hose, a cream colored Jacobite shirt with hugely exaggerated oversized cuffs extending for what looks to be a good 10" or 12" beyond his hands, and some kind of a square cut long black jacket that extends down to within a couple of inches of the bottom of his kilt.

The man on the right is wearing the rainbow kilt and.... not much else except a pair of red shoes and head to toe silver body paint! (Oh, and a studded dog collar). In other words, this is not so much "Highland Dress" as it is "fetish wear." Moving on...



Here we have a fellow sitting on a bench somewhere on the Royal Mile, like he is waiting for someone, or just taking a break. He has on a Black Stewart kilt, a short sleeved pullover shirt with some kind of pattern on it (can't really tell from the pic), black shoes and short black socks, no sporran. He looks very comfortable and relaxed in the photo.



Here is a young man in full piper's regalia including a doublet, piper's plaid, hair sporran, diced hose and spats, enjoying a bottle of something or other in a pub.




These three men look like they are just coming out of some kind of formal function, perhaps a ball or an evening wedding. They are wearing kilts, dress shirts, waistcoats, formal sporrans, white hose and black ghillie brogues all. The jackets are gone, as are the neck ties. The collars are unbuttoned and one of them has his waistcoat unbuttoned, as well. Two of them are enjoying cigarettes, and they have their arms around each other's shoulders. The one in the middle is lifting his leg, can-can style, and the one on the right is lifting his kilt up revealing a bit of leg. Looks like three guys after a fun night just hamming it up for the camera.



Here's a fellow in a kilt lying down on some concrete steps, relaxing. He's wearing a pullover, black boots with scrunched down socks, and what looks like a plain leather sporran (hard to tell from the angle).



A group of men dressed for some kind of formal function. They are all wearing white popcorn top piper's hose and black ghillies. The man in front is wearing a black three button waistcoat (with a belt peeking out from under the waistcoat). His jacket is presumably on the back of a chair somewhere, I suppose. The two men behind him have their jackets on, though it's hard to tell what they are wearing, as the first man is blocking the view. Again, they look like they are hamming it up a bit for the camera.



This fellow is wearing a grey fleece pullover, semi-dress sporran and cream colored hose, scrunched down, with brown boots.