Quote Originally Posted by davidlpope View Post
I don't understand the fascination with all these very...umm..."distinctive-looking" jackets. There's already so much variation/ freedom of expression inherent in THCD, why not take any one of the seven or so evening THCD jacket styles and personalize it in your own choice of color, fabric, trim, etc?

That seems like it would be so much better than finding some "ebay special" that one "might be able to wear" with a kilt...

David
I agree that there is plenty of room for individuality in what's already out there. There are dozens of traditional jacket styles available, and I won't try to count the different features and options available in each style. A lot of us convert jackets because we can't afford a new kilt jacket, and many of us just enjoy hunting down a conversion jacket and making it work with a kilt. That said, why should we be limited to jackets that are basically already a traditional kilt jacket with a few extra inches of fabric that needs to be removed? Some of us like to step out of the norm a bit, even if it's just in wondering about the possibilities.

I can't speak for anyone else, but it appears to me that we're mostly batting around "what-if's." It's along the same lines as someone talking about whether to restore the old Impala in the yard to original, turn it into a low rider, drag race it, turn it into a monster truck, or put smoke screens and oil slicks and other James Bond goodies on it. In the end, the car is still sitting in the yard. We're just throwing around ideas for the fun of it. At some point one of us may act on one of those ideas, but who really knows?

Several jackets in this thread would look really good with a kilt IMO. How many of them will actually be tried out by members of the rabble? Probably none.

Most of the discussion, I think, has been outside the realm of traditional dress, or at best on the outer fringes of it, and leans more toward contemporary or straight out non-traditional, so the choices already out there and what we're looking at are apples and oranges.