Can it be Modern?

**English Bloke** · 28th June 11, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

... Please let us not complicate things even more by using, yet another, heading of "semi-traditional", whatever that is supposed to mean.

Why don't we say semi-modern?

I'm not fond of the term "semi-traditional" either, as I'm also not fond of "semi-dress" when discussing sporrans. It either is, or it isn't. Nothing wrong with one or the other but I don't think there is a halfway house.

I wear a traditional Kilt in a non-traditional way (usually) so that takes me out of the category Traditional and Classic Highland Apparel and Style mostly. I think we can be on either side of the fence and switch between as the fancy takes, but we can't be on the fence. Sometimes I do wear my Kilt traditionally and delight in doing so but if you are not playing strictly by "the rules" when you turnout, then you are not Traditional.

**Jock Scot** · 28th June 11, 11:44 PM

Each to their own EB and you always look dapper whichever side of the fence you are. As you say, there are enough "grey" areas already without getting mired in more.

**triolamj** · 22nd July 11, 09:29 AM

Dude, you're trying to rock so many different colors AND patterns at the same time that it reminds me of my buddy who is color-blind. Your traditional really isn't that traditional and your modern isn't that modern. The sporran needs to stay but the clips need to go.

**Joshua** · 22nd July 11, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by triolamj

Dude, you're trying to rock so many different colors AND patterns at the same time that it reminds me of my buddy who is color-blind. Your traditional really isn't that traditional and your modern isn't that modern. The sporran needs to stay but the clips need to go.

Hate to tell you - but patterned shirts (especially windowpane, tattersall, and check) and ties (especially regimental stripe) are very, very traditional with kilts.

**James Hood** · 24th July 11, 09:45 AM

In this opinion, 'tis a glorious and joyful thing, the kilt is being tried in so many fabrics, cuts, weights, styles, with varied headgear, shirts, sweaters, jackets, hose, footwear.

Hooray to those boldly doing their bits to move kilts into true fashion acceptability, if not mainstream.

**triolamj** · 25th July 11, 07:22 PM

Not from any photos I've seen on this website. And I presume a tie in a regimental stripe would be in colors that match the regimental tartan. A regimental stripe tie is very different from what Electrickilt is wearing. Electrickilt is wearing a very common, garden-variety vest, tie, and dress shirt but IMHO they are not in the patterns, colors, or fabrics that you would "traditionally" wear with a kilt.

**Tobus** · 1st August 11, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by triolamj

Electrickilt is wearing a very common, garden-variety vest, tie, and dress shirt but IMHO they are not in the patterns, colors, or fabrics that you would "traditionally" wear with a kilt.

Jock Scot could clear it up for us, but I think you're mistaken on the shirt. That's a very traditional pattern/style for wearing with the kilt.

What makes it non-traditional, though, is the collar. It buttons down.

**Jock Scot** · 1st August 11, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

Jock Scot could clear it up for us, but I think you're mistaken on the shirt. That's a very traditional pattern/style for wearing with the kilt.

What makes it non-traditional, though, is the collar. It buttons down.

The shirt in the series in the OP? Well, in my opinion and assuming that the collar IS NOT button down(I can't see clearly) then you would be hard put to find a more traditional shirt. If, on the other hand, the collar were to be button down, well, it may be traditional American, but NOT traditional Highland attire.

**Tobus** · 1st August 11, 10:59 AM

You're right, Jock... it's very hard to see. I'm assuming it is buttoned down because it seems to be sucked in pretty tight around the knot. But considering that it's so hard to see, I admit I could be wrong.

**triolamj** · 8th August 11, 09:36 AM

When I was a much younger man and a clothes horse of sorts at the office, I had 2 very nice tattersall shirts. I wore them with solid color pants and a solid color tie. I would no more wear a tattersall shirt with a tartan pattern kilt than I would wear it with a pair of striped or pin-striped or glen plaid pants. I sometimes wear a button-down oxford shirt with my kilt and black Argyll along with a rep tie (light green shamrocks on dark green). When would I wear a tattersall shirt with a kilt? Only when I was wearing a kilt in a solid color and with a solid color tie and jacket.