Is there a a photo or a style that has strongly influenced you?

[Kilted Cole]

I was just wondering along the lines of personal taste, what or who has influenced your ideas and ideals of what you wish to portray as "Highland attire"? Modern take, "Traditional Highland Civilian Dress", your own functionality and whims.......I think you get where I'm going.
For me I'm all about functionalism over fashion, and not taking an absolutionistic approach on that my vision is the only vision of what is appropriate. I try to keep the "To each their own" mentality just because it doesn't benefit me to get all riled up over clothing, regardless of how strongly I may feel about a specific thing, or tradition, or principal......but I digress. Functionalism over fashion....there is a Painting of I believe Willie MacDuff is the gentleman's name in the painting. And as I have been told, the painter actually had to.........clean him up or tidy him up a tad to be more presentable. Now regardless as to how often he was or was not kilted in his actual life for me is beside the point. Its that I like the idea of the more rugged appearance, and the utilitarianism of the kilt its self. So, if there is a picture that has influenced you greatly, please do find and post it along with one of yourself.
Gent on our right, his left.

And then me today.

I should also probably add "Duncan" (Hamish Clark) from Monarch of the Glen series has strongly influenced my casual wear for when I'm on the farm in the warmer months of the year.

And Me

[Calgacus]

I saw a photo of Willie Duff once, it looked like he'd spent the night in his kilt under a hedge somewhere. 'Rugged' I suppose is as good an adjective as any.

[Thomas H]

This photo has influenced me the most in my Highland attire - this photo has so much in it .
it has inspired me to love the daywear attire. I am still in the works to make this happen but I am trying .

[CMcG]

These days, I'm feeling "less is more." I started a thread about it a while back: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...an-more-79023/ I'm not sure that I could attribute the look to one particular photo... I'll think about it

[Riverkilt]

Really like the idea of not having to wear a sporran, fiddle with opening and closing it, fish around inside. Vests sort things out very nicely and show off more tartan.

[cable scot]

Ten looks one kilt,

[creagdhubh]

Aye, photos of my friend, Sandy MacLean (JSFMACLJR) and his father (who is featured in the photo you posted, Thomas); photos of my fellow Macphersons that live in Scotland to include my Chief, Sir William Alan Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie, TD; Kenneth MacLeay's, "Highlanders of Scotland;" HRH The Duke of Windsor; HRH The Duke of Rothesay; David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden of Cushnie; and a multitude of photos of various Highland men wearing traditional Highland Dress during the early 20th-century and through the 1960's to the present time (too many visual examples to post here, but I'm sure you get the picture - no pun intended!).























Slainte,

[Nathan]

In addition to seeing Highland civvie attire often enough in my youth and being affiliated with a Highland Regiment, a lot of photos have contributed to my sense of style. I'd have to say photos of HRH the Duke of Rothsay, photos of the Clan Donald chiefs (well...most of them anyway;), photos of my fellow xmarks members, and photos of the MacLeod, Cluny, Farquarson etc...

edit: I shouldn't discount seeing John Allen Cameron on television kilted and also stills...




Basically, I'm more compelled by photos of Highlanders wearing Highland attire at events in the Highlands then I am by photos of models in catalogues or on websites.

Slainte,

[creagdhubh]

Basically, I'm more compelled by photos of Highlanders wearing Highland attire at events in the Highlands then I am by photos of models in catalogues or on websites.

Precisely, me too.

[GG]

I have been thinking for some time, but I have come to the conclusion that in my case it must be an ad on the back of a tourist magazine, IN BRITAIN, dated October 1976, meaning over 36 years ago and in connection with my very first visit to London. It was a business trip and the whole marketing department was going there for a few days. Sitting on the train together with my boss and a few of my colleagues one of them, a guy in his late fifties, asked my boss, if he knew if there were some places in London where to buy a kilt. The reason was that he liked wearing shorts for comfort but that his wife wouldn’t allow him to be in shorts after September. Therefore he thought of buying himself a kilt. My boss didn’t know, neither did any of us, and he advised him not to, because a kilt, to his opinion, was something rather odd.

On my hotel room I then found this IN BRITAIN magazine, indicating that a kilt might be to buy in London. I suppose my colleague had the same magazine in his room, but as a matter of fact I never asked him about the kilt.

This conversation may be the reason that I noticed the ad. But I remember that I liked the whole atmosphere in it with the two ladies in the park and the gentleman in the kilt looking at them. Also that I found that the kilt looked good on him and that I thought it must be extremely comfortable with a garment like that.
I kept the magazine together with other items from that trip, but I forgot about the kilt.
Not until over twenty years later I was trigged again by a kilt (in Edinburgh); and that much that I, after some time, and despite I had no Scottish blood, eventually ordered one and started wearing it.



The Scotch House does no longer exist. 2005 it was still in Knightsbridge, however.