Dress codes and changing trends

[KentuckyCeltophile]

I, too, have seen alot said about dress codes. I can understand if the doublets and jabot are the peak of formal wear, but when do the average Joe-shmoes attend a white tie affair. As for the Prince Charlie and Argyll couldn't they be used for the same things? Like the tuxedo equivalent? Add a bit of silver and you have a formal jacket. But the Argyll or Braemar jackets and you could wear the one jacket style to wear to church, weddings, or dinner party and other less formal but dressy occasions.

Please don't be offended by my ignorance. I'm still learning.
Regards,
KC

[Geoff Withnell]

I, too, have seen alot said about dress codes. I can understand if the doublets and jabot are the peak of formal wear, but when do the average Joe-shmoes attend a white tie affair. As for the Prince Charlie and Argyll couldn't they be used for the same things? Like the tuxedo equivalent? Add a bit of silver and you have a formal jacket. But the Argyll or Braemar jackets and you could wear the one jacket style to wear to church, weddings, or dinner party and other less formal but dressy occasions.

Please don't be offended by my ignorance. I'm still learning.
Regards,
KC

You ay, and many of us do wear an Argyle jacket with a standard dress shirt such as one would wear with a Saxon suit, and a long necktie, for occasions when a bifurcated suit would be worn. And wear the same jacket, with a pleated formal shirt, studs and black bowtie for occasions when a tux might be worn.

Ignorance is not offensive, it is merely lack of knowledge. We are allstill learning, if we are wise. Only willful ignorance, that refuses to learn, is offensive, and you, Sir, obviously do not fit in that category.

[Texas4wheeler]

What would be correct casual dress in 100 degree Texas weather?.. If you put a tie or a jacket on , your gonna fall out here... Lol

[ASinclair]

What would be correct casual dress in 100 degree Texas weather?.. If you put a tie or a jacket on , your gonna fall out here... Lol

A golf shirt and a big hat that shades you from the sun would be appropriate at a Highland Games.

[BCAC]

What would be correct casual dress in 100 degree Texas weather?.. If you put a tie or a jacket on , your gonna fall out here... Lol

Over thinking, again. Just wear the same thing that you would wear with trousers, but change the trousers for a kilt. Socks/no socks, belt/no belt, sporran/no sporran, shoes/boots/sandals, long sleeves/short sleeves/T Shirt it's really up to you. If you like the look and it's comfortable you are good to go. It's casual, there are no kilt cops/rules.

[Taskr]

Being in an Hon appointment position where we are careful about such things as order-of-dress, I find these post threads quite helpful to lining up highland wear to the occasions. Along with our own dress, we are often consulted by others as to what is correct.

[James Hood]

Despite the population, breadth of cultures, vast geography of this planet...

...it strikes this writer as perhaps a simultaneous flavour of amusing and queer, with a dash of perhaps-imagined revelation...

...that this e-forum may well be the only "place" on earth where this subject is being discussed with such earnestness, pensiveness, intellect, passion, tolerance, speculation and research.

[Laurence]

Aye, yes, yeah and Amen! Quite a thoughtful offering, and I find myself in enough agreement with you to express it so! Onward with progressive traditionalism!