What do you think

[Wompet]

Fashion don'ts:

• Piper's plaid
• Piper's sporran
• calf-high "boxer's" ghillies
• Is that a string bow tie he's wearing?

Fashion do's:

• matching tartan (kilt, plaid, companion's dress)
• solid flashes in main color of kilt, worn slightly off-center (not on the shin, not on the side of the calf, but in between)
• being accompanied by an attractive woman, whom everyone is going to pay more attention to anyway.

[timber]

It looks like he has the kilt on backwards too!

[Freelander Sporrano]

It looks like he has the kilt on backwards too!

I thought that too. I agree with Wompet too it looks like a string bow tie....I'll admit to liking the sporran though

[Aggie]

You can see his shirt showing just above the kilt and I can see only one buckle so I would say that he at least has it on the right way but, it does look like pleats in front.

[Panache]

I say "Bully for Him!" he's dressed up and looks like he is pulling off wearing a kilt and having a great time doing it. Personally I think that his fly plaid is a tad overwhelming (next on FOX "When Fly Plaids Attack!") Other than that, I say again "Bully for Him".

Cheers

Panache

P.S. I like the SHOES!

[Caradoc]

I say "Bully for Him!" he's dressed up and looks like he is pulling off wearing a kilt and having a great time doing it. Personally I think that his fly plaid is a tad overwhelming (next on FOX "When Fly Plaids Attack!") Other than that, I say again "Bully for Him".

Cheers

Panache

P.S. I like the SHOES!

Seconded - I like the shoes, but I think they would have gone better with a Jacobite coat, Montrose, or Sheriffmuir doublet.

Maybe even a "Regulation" doublet.

And that plaidie has to go. Or get washed in hot water. Several times.

[Rex_Tremende]

The question is “What do you think?” OK, so call me a heretic, but I like it, and here’s why: Mr. McQueen is doing his job.

He and his lovely date are among the glitterati invited to draw attention (and money) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, which is dedicated to the preservation and study of costume (in the prevalent fashion sense, not theatrical sense – their collection also includes kilts and other MUGs), and look at that, it worked. As a fashion designer, it’s his job to interpret traditional ideas for a modern consumer, to decide what to make this year smaller, bigger, tighter, blousier, shorter or longer, to combine old things in new ways, and to intone such oracular mysteries such as “Black is the new Black.” The designer, Mr. McQueen, certainly does not need lessons from anyone on how to dress, and most people have figured out that what you see on the runways and red carpets almost never ends up in actual people’s closets as is. I wouldn’t expect him to show up in an ordinary kilt outfitted in the prescribed way. What fun would that be?

Would I wear it? No. I don’t get invited to gala fundraisers. I am not a celebrity. I am not a fashion designer. I am not so handsome as to get away with it. (Really, I'm not jealous!) But worst of all, my luck would be that someone would take a picture of me that would end up on the “Don’ts” side of the “Dos and Don’ts” thread.

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati

[davedove]

The question is “What do you think?” OK, so call me a heretic, but I like it, and here’s why: Mr. McQueen is doing his job.

He and his lovely date are among the glitterati invited to draw attention (and money) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, which is dedicated to the preservation and study of costume (in the prevalent fashion sense, not theatrical sense – their collection also includes kilts and other MUGs), and look at that, it worked. As a fashion designer, it’s his job to interpret traditional ideas for a modern consumer, to decide what to make this year smaller, bigger, tighter, blousier, shorter or longer, to combine old things in new ways, and to intone such oracular mysteries such as “Black is the new Black.” The designer, Mr. McQueen, certainly does not need lessons from anyone on how to dress, and most people have figured out that what you see on the runways and red carpets almost never ends up in actual people’s closets as is. I wouldn’t expect him to show up in an ordinary kilt outfitted in the prescribed way. What fun would that be?

Would I wear it? No. I don’t get invited to gala fundraisers. I am not a celebrity. I am not a fashion designer. I am not so handsome as to get away with it. (Really, I'm not jealous!) But worst of all, my luck would be that someone would take a picture of me that would end up on the “Don’ts” side of the “Dos and Don’ts” thread.

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati

A lot of truth to that. How many of us would be considered boring and conventional by the fashion people, even though we are kilted.:rolleyes:

[Colin]

I am sure someone on this forum will love the boots/ghillies. Unfortunately I could never stand Sarah Jessica Parker so the whole thing sours me already.

[Caradoc]

A lot of truth to that. How many of us would be considered boring and conventional by the fashion people, even though we are kilted.:rolleyes:

I've seen a lot of the so-called "fashion" those folks put out.

I wouldn't be caught dead wearing most of it.

I like Oscar Wilde's take on the "high fashion" scene:

"...a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."