Button up shirts

[knotty]

I too prefer subtle patterns or solid colors with my kilts. You didnt say what style youre going to, but I can recommend canvas type shits with kilt wear. Ive received plenty of kind comments while wearing a canvas shirt & tweed/tartan, with or without tie.

[DyerStraits]

I agree with essentially everyone's preferences and suggestions, which is testament to just how versatile and practical kilts are. I generally wear solid color shirts with tartan kilts and either solid or checked/tattersall shirts with my solid color kilts. I do think checked/tattersall shirts also look very fine with tartan kilts, especially for a mixed-pattern British country look--which I don't go for as often I would like since I'm basically a Big City Dweller. I also agree that safari/pilot/Swiss Army type shirts (like the dark blue one I'm wearing with my Scottish National kilt this very moment) are also a good look, as are band collar shirts.

[TheOfficialBren]

I usually wear safari-styled shirts, tattersall, and checks with mine. Sometimes a striped tie, sometimes no tie. Sometimes a jumper when it's cold out.

[Riverkilt]

After some experimentation in a fit of insanity I would recommend against matching the tartan shirt with the tartan kilt. Here, the Edzell/Navy tartan in both shirt and kilt. Enough to make a seasoned sailor seasick...

[WillowEstate]

Habit of a lifetime - before I retired, all my shirts were solid in various shades of light blue. See no reason to change, all look good IMHO with my Mackenzie kilts! Formal, buttoned up with a tie and cufflinks, casual, open neck and rolled up sleeves. Whatever works for you!

[Sir Didymous]

I only own solid colored shirts. But that is my preference in both Saxon and Highland attire. It wasn't until kilts became a part of my life that patterns of any form entered into my modern wardrobe. But there are those who can pull off the patterned shirts with kilts, I just don't consider myself among them. IMHO, more subtle patterns work better; but this is from a guy that wears solids.

[gordontaos]

I like the 5.11 shirts. They have large Velcro hidden pockets that can easily carry items that will not fit into my sporran.
They take well to starch, are available in short or long sleeve, and also have a pseudo military look that I think goes well with a kilt.

http://www.lapolicegear.com/51172157.html

[OC Richard]

Coming from the pipe band world, I've been wearing solid (what Brits call selfcoloured) shirts with Highland Dress for over 35 years. Pipe bands wear white, grey, blue... but always solid.

I had noticed over the years that in Scotland it was customary to wear check shirts with tweed.

It wasn't until I joined this site that I learned that there was a quite specific sort of check shirt called a Tattersall shirt; being a visual artist I was very interested in the parameters of the thing, and it appears to be quite specific, a shirt like this



that is, a two-colour check pattern, the checks evenly spaced and sized, on a white (or offwhite) backround. Patterns similar to this but using three or four colours appear to be called "country check".

Here's a 'country check' shirt



The collar is a spread collar, or straight, never the very pointy American style collar, and usually not a buttondown collar.

Thing is, shirts meeting these exact specs are very hard to find here in the USA. I've scoured entire malls and not found a single one.

Here's a good thread about them a while back

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-shirts-80996/

[OC Richard]

After some experimentation in a fit of insanity I would recommend against matching the tartan shirt with the tartan kilt.

Actually that looks OK to me, especially if there was a vest or jacket to break it up. The shirt is rather lighter in shade than the kilt, so there's not much matching going on.

There are quite a few photos of Prince Charles wearing a plaid shirt with kilt, and it looks fine.

[creagdhubh]

Coming from the pipe band world, I've been wearing solid (what Brits call selfcoloured) shirts with Highland Dress for over 35 years. Pipe bands wear white, grey, blue... but always solid.

I had noticed over the years that in Scotland it was customary to wear check shirts with tweed.

It wasn't until I joined this site that I learned that there was a quite specific sort of check shirt called a Tattersall shirt; being a visual artist I was very interested in the parameters of the thing, and it appears to be quite specific, a shirt like this



that is, a two-colour check pattern, the checks evenly spaced and sized, on a white (or offwhite) backround. Patterns similar to this but using three or four colours appear to be called "country check".

Here's a 'country check' shirt



The collar is a spread collar, or straight, never the very pointy American style collar, and usually not a buttondown collar.

Thing is, shirts meeting these exact specs are very hard to find here in the USA. I've scoured entire malls and not found a single one.

Here's a good thread about them a while back

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-shirts-80996/

These are the style of shirts I tend to wear, Richard (photos above). Very smart, especially with tweed!