I attended a wedding yesterday at which at least half of the men were kilted. Dozens of kilties in attendance!

I noticed an interesting thing, one that I'd not paid attention to before.

There was a kilted man in just about the most plain possible dress: kilt, sporran, offwhite/cream hose, ordinary loafer shoes, dress shirt and tie. No flashes, no belt, no waistcoat, no jacket.

Most of the kilties were wearing black Argyll jackets or Prince Charlies but this plain gentleman stood out.

What it was, was his kilt. It was a very well-made and well-fitting kilt in a lovely tartan and he wore it well.

And that was all that was needed! The minimum of accessories, the sporran and kilt hose, was sufficient.

He was actually more elegant than most of the men wearing jackets and ghillies etc, but whose kilts were not as nice as his.

Probably many of you have known this all along, and perhaps I knew it subconsciously, but it had never jumped out to me so clearly as it did yesterday.

BTW it was a daytime wedding but I was the only man wearing anything other than black, until halfway through the reception a man wearing a charcoal grey Argyll arrived.