Bottle Green Argyll jacket. yes or no?

[Panache]

Here is a less monochromatic photo* showing how my green argyll looks with my SWK heavyweight Black Stewart kilt



Cheers

Jamie

* My all green outfit is really reserved St Patrick's Day

[Zardoz]

I'd wanted a green jacket and waistcoat for a while, and considered a bottle green barathea. But I ended up with a 'forrest green' tweed, I feel like the tweed look is a little more suited to daywear.


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[Downunder Kilt]

I'd wanted a green jacket and waistcoat for a while, and considered a bottle green barathea. But I ended up with a 'forrest green' tweed, I feel like the tweed look is a little more suited to daywear.


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My thoughts exactly Zardoz. Went through the same thought process several years ago and found the tweed far more versatile.

[opositive]

hector russel has a green argyll on sale. i am debating....

[Mael Coluim]

hector russel has a green argyll on sale. i am debating....

I picked mine up on sale in Edinburgh last September. I first saw them on sale at HR in Glasgow. Didn't have my size. The salesman called their Edinburgh store and they had one my size which they held for me until I arrived there. I am very happy with it.

[AKScott]

Thanks for chiming in Zardoz, I will shop a little longer.

[knotty]

Iv often thought of getting a green jacket & waistcoat. With the idea of changin the buttons on my black for something more casual. Then I could change the jacket/waistcoat for different looks.
For me, Im not sure a bottle green would work with my MacLean hunting. It would work well for most other tartans though.

Craig

[AKScott]

I will confess that I have been shopping tweed jackets in my local second hand store since October, and watching one of these in my size and bottle green in the clearance section on scotweb (US$215) since before Christmas. http://www.scotweb.co.uk/product_pop...960:height=500

I think for me personally I need to keep watching for tweed. If you don't mind my saying so Zardoz looks kinda, umm, cuddly? in his tweed above, where the model in bottle green linked here is not so much. Let me just say right away my wife is all about cuddly and move on.

I'll just have to find a day wear jacket in tweed, it will be worn much more often.

[OC Richard]

I'd wanted a green jacket and waistcoat for a while, and considered a bottle green barathea. But I ended up with a 'forrest green' tweed, I feel like the tweed look is a little more suited to daywear.

This is a good point to bring up. Jackets of black, blue, red, or green Barathea with silver buttons, whether they be in the cut of a Prince Charlie, Montrose, or Argyll, are in my opinion in the category of Evening Dress jackets.

Maybe it's simplistic or overly rigid thinking but in my mind Barathea + silver buttons = "Evening Dress", tweed + horn buttons = "Day Dress".

But of course in the Pipe Band scene it's long been common for bands to wear Evening Dress during the daytime... such as The City Of Dundee Pipe Band



or these pipers playing at a Daytime function in 1945

[David Thorpe]

...I ended up with a 'forrest green' tweed, I feel like the tweed look is a little more suited to daywear.


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That totally rocks! Now, if it were only blue instead of green... (drool)