Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
I am here, but I am not sure that I am going to help a lot! Yes indeed with a suit jacket and sports jacket, the centre button is done up whilst standing(three buttons done up on your hacking jacket whilst riding) and kilt jackets(most) are left open----I have no idea why the kilt jacket is left open! In 70 years I have never been able to find out and when I have asked my tailor(s) about it,there has been a sharp intake of breath and then the comment "its just not done".

Now I have heard it said that it is a fashion started by some one ( like the Duke of Windsor) famous and the reason has been lost in the mists of time. I have also heard it said that the Highlanders leave their jackets open because the Lowlanders don't and I have also heard it said, "with the weather we have in Scotland only damn fools would go around without the jacket done up----- and that's us!", but the truth of the matter is, I don't honestly know!

As an aside, I do think that the kilt jacket does look much better undone.


Jock, this reminds me of Michael McIntyre's "The Birth of the Kilt" when he talks about all the Scots getting together to 'design the Scot' to be as opposite the British as humanly possible.