Quote Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
I don't mind the suggestion of charcoal hose but I'd be careful about saying that charcoal hose or tweeds are in any way more formal than green. A tweed is a tweed regardless of colour and is never formal. Bottle green hose and charcoal are both on the same sartorial level of relative informality.

Monochromatic does not equal formality and dark colours do not equal formality. We must be careful not to bring Saxon conventions into our analysis of Highland style.
That is basically what I was doing. In contrast, what I termed "less formal" seemed more in the Highland style to me.