Must waistcoat and jacket match?

**Tobus** · 3rd January 10, 09:24 AM

I'm having a couple of tweed jackets converted to kilt jackets. But I don't have waistcoats that match them.

Is it a fashion faux-pas to wear a completely different color waistcoat under a jacket (assuming they compliment each other)? Or would it be better to just go sans waistcoat?

Usually in all the pictures I see of people wearing waistcoats under jackets, the two match each other. I can't recall seeing any where they aren't matched.

**sydnie7** · 3rd January 10, 10:25 AM

Coordinating, or even picking up a different color from the tartan, is fine and has been pictured here often. For example, tweed jacket can be combined with red, green, blue, etc. waistcoat that "goes" with the kilt.

**Panache** · 3rd January 10, 10:34 AM

Tobus,

I think as long as the colors and textures are complimentary it is fine to have a waistcoat and jacket that do no match.

Here are some of my examples

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

**thescot** · 3rd January 10, 11:19 AM

Jamie illustrates perfectly the fact that a waistcoast and jacket need not match. I found this little outfit in linen on ebay, but it's out of my budget . . . for now. (New kilt and all that, you know.) But I think it's a really good looking jacket and vest. And it would be really good in the summer.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

**Fougasse** · 3rd January 10, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by thescot

Jamie illustrates perfectly the fact that a waistcoast and jacket need not match. I found this little outfit in linen on ebay, but it's out of my budget . . . for now. (New kilt and all that, you know.) But I think it's a really good looking jacket and vest. And it would be really good in the summer.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Jim,

that is a beautiful jacket and waistcoat combination and one more to add to the wishlist! I too regularly mix and match jackets and waistcoats; both with kilts and with trousers.

**Highlander31** · 3rd January 10, 12:10 PM

Not much to add, Jamie has posted several nice examples of jacket and waistcoat combinations.

**Jack Daw** · 3rd January 10, 03:35 PM

Take a look at the Estate tweeds on the STM webby.

**Ozark Ridge Rider** · 3rd January 10, 03:57 PM

I think a black, fairly smooth fabric waistcoat goes very well under most of the gray tweed jackets.

**dfmacliam** · 3rd January 10, 03:55 PM

Yes, what Panache said.....lol I also like a black jacket and the red vest look too.. as long as they compliment the ensemble.

**Tobus** · 3rd January 10, 07:55 PM

Very fine examples! Thanks for sharing.

OK, next question. What about wearing different color tweeds? Is a dark charcoal tweed waistcoat going to look OK with, say, a light grey tweed jacket? Or if I'm mixing colors, should I also stick with different materials?