"Smart casual" with a kilt

**robbiethepiper** · 22nd March 11, 03:39 AM

If choosing just from what I have in my wardrobe - Dark green "culloden" shirt and black leather waistcoat. This is my normal rig for informal party/ceilidh type settings

**Joshua** · 22nd March 11, 06:28 AM

In Florida smart casual is a polo and casual slacks with a leather shoe.

Kilted, I'd translate it to a polo, daywear sporran, solid hose (flashes optional), and a leather shoe.

**piperdbh** · 22nd March 11, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Joshua

In Florida smart casual is a polo and casual slacks with a leather shoe.

Kilted, I'd translate it to a polo, daywear sporran, solid hose (flashes optional), and a leather shoe.

Just one shoe?

**Whidbey78** · 22nd March 11, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Just one shoe?

There are a lot of peg-legged pirates running around Florida. Arrrrrrrr.

**Lyle1** · 22nd March 11, 06:56 PM

Having lived in the Philadelphia area for over 30 years (before retiring and moving south!), I would recommend the sweater as suggested by Jock Scot, or a waistcoat; both should be worn with shirt and tie. If I wore a jacket (with or without a sweater or waistcoat), I would not wear a tie, as a jacket AND a tie is not really SMART casual in Philadelphia. A jacket (without matching slacks) and tie is business casual.

Whatever you wear, adopt an attitude of sublime indifference; it is Philadelphia, and any sign of uncertainty is a sign of weakness, but a strong front is golden!

**auld argonian** · 22nd March 11, 08:09 PM

Lyle1 has the point...what's considered smart casual does depend on location, location, location.

First time that regional differences in dress came home to me was back when I worked as an AV specialist for an insurance company...when you had the guys from the East, the Midwest, the South and the West all in for a meeting you could really pick out who was from where.

Best

AA