Are Sashes for Men or Not???

[Riverkilt]

I like that.

Was just at the Camp Verde, AZ Highland Games. My new ladyfriend wanted to go along and wanted a kilt to wear.

She was able to wear my Macdonald tartan SportKilt and it looked okay...at least compared to some of the other dresses guys were wearing and the tablecloth-like tartan an athlete had wrapped around his shorts.

She was all worried about being "entitled" to wear the clan tartan...told her, hey, you're with me.

Ron

[Sir Robert]

With all due respect gentlemen, There is no "right" nor "wrong" with highland dress.

With that being said, me personally I would wear a sash only under two occasions: as a part of a uniform or if I wished to display two differing tartans for example my mother's on the sash and my father's on the kilt.

I have seen an 18thC painting of a noble's son wearing at least different 4 tartans at once. (Jacket, sash, kilt and trews too!)

But remember less is more. Too much stuff and you end up looking like a color-blind drag queen.

Bob

[Doc Hudson]

With all due respect gentlemen, There is no "right" nor "wrong" with highland dress.

With that being said, me personally I would wear a sash only under two occasions: as a part of a uniform or if I wished to display two differing tartans for example my mother's on the sash and my father's on the kilt.

I have seen an 18thC painting of a noble's son wearing at least different 4 tartans at once. (Jacket, sash, kilt and trews too!)

But remember less is more. Too much stuff and you end up looking like a color-blind drag queen.

Bob

Thank you Sir Robert!

That was the point I was trying to make when it was relegated to the status of wearing a tutu and fishnet stockings!

[jkdesq]

Hey,

My understanding is that it is authentic for a man to wear a piece of plaid cloth over his shoulder which is called a "fly plaid". This is to immitate how a "great kilt" or "belted plaid" was worn in days of y'ore.

A fly plaid is usually alot bigger and has fringing this on it, that makes it different than a "woman's floral sash". However, www.scotyard has a "mini fly plaid" that looks alot like a floral sash or like the sportkilt "sash" to me.

Just semantics. If someone calls my pants a "slacks" or my sporran a "purse" what does that mean? Are we that insecure about our right to wear highland attire? Can we be scared away by calling a Jacobite shirt a "blouse" or, heaven forbid, a kilt a "skirt"?