The caution in all this is understanding the difference between "tradition", "fashion" and "personal style" as well as all the others when it comes to civilian Highland dress. It is "tradition" to wear black shoes regardless of the colour of your belt or sporran; it is "fashion" to tuck a hankie into your breast pocket; it is "style" to wear your grannie's choice round brooch 12 inches higher than the norm for a kilt pin.

It is "tradition" to ignore the dictates of current "fashion" and to accept eccentricities as "personal style" choices -- in the Highlands.

Rex