Something that Hamish wrote years ago that stuck in my head

[Alan H]

Look, this is an incredible post. Whyso?

1.) Someone wrote some advice about clothes and I REMEMBERED IT.
2. To paraphrase Dori from "Finding Nemo"... "I remembered it AGAIN!"

When you put on a tartan kilt with a lot of other stuff, the focus of your kit should be the kilt and the tartan. That's what Hamish wrote.

This makes perfectly good sense to me. I mean, you spend a bluidy lot of money on that thing, it only makes sense to let people SEE it. Hamish's point was actually about the tartan or solid tie question, but I think the principle carries over. At least, that's how I put the stuff on. I don't adorn myself with a bucketload of gewdygaw "stuff". Let the kilt be what it is, it's plenty "busy" enough as it is. Keep the rest of the outfit simple.


Words of wisdom, IMHO.

Now, I might go a bit overboard on the simplicity theme. Most of the time I don't wear a kilt pin, and while I own two sgian dubhs (won them both at the Games) I *Never* wear them.