How formal?

[Benning Boy]

Next month I'll be flying to a distant city to attend a concert by Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester. Max is known for being a classy dresser. Audience members often dress stylishly, if not formally, in keeping with the spirit of the performance. I'm considering attending kilted, if I don't wear my tux.


I have everything I need for formal kilted evening wear but a dressy sporran. I really don't want to buy a ready made one now, as I want one made by Artificer more. However, to go formal I'll need one. Can you suggest an inexpensive sporran that will pass as formal wear that might get me buy for now?

On the other hand, I'd really rather wear my dark charcoal gray Kilt Kut suit coat from Freedom Kilts. It's more my style. I'd probably pair it with a a dove gray waistcoat, and subdued necktie. My preference is for brown leather items worn with it. Could this pass muster?

Ordinarily I'd just do my own thing, and go with what I like. However, when at the concert I'll be, in a way, surrounded by millions of people, not all of them being inside the concert hall, naturally, and odds are there will likely be someone in the vicinity who has opinions on the right way and the wrong way to dress for this occasion. It's not that I don't want to offend the sensibilities of the snobbish, they don't matter. However, neither do I want to come off as a hick from the sticks who's just playing dress-up. I want to appear respectable. What is your advice?