Turn-ups on tartan TROUSERS?

[Jock Scot]

Well alright, the definitions of tartan trousers and tartan trews are many and various. So..........

Mrs Jock and I were at a smart dinner ------not formal----- party last night. Most of the men were wearing suits and some of us were wearing our kilts, tweed kilt jackets and drop down ties. The ladies were dressed in an assortment of appropriate attire and beautiful they looked, but not one of them wore a stitch of tartan. During the evening one of the male guests asked about tartan trousers as he was thinking of getting a pair made.

As you can imagine a lively conversation ensued and first of all there was a discussion on the difference between Trews and trousers. I think after a modest conversation it was agreed that the term "Trews" had confusingly a dual meaning. So for the sake of the discussion, the military style of tartan garments were "trews" and the civilian style of tartan garments were "trousers". In this we failed and confusion ensued on more than one occasion! Nothing new there then! But we had a lot of laughs!

So, the chap wanting a pair of tartan trousers, had fairly definite ideas to what he required. So a Clan tartan was not a problem as he wanted the Clan Chatten tartan, although I had reservations of how it would look. However, its not an unusual tartan around here. He did not want a more severe military cut for the garment and he wanted turn-ups.

It was here that the discussion took off! Personally I don't mind turn-ups on tartan trousers, but there were more than a few around the table who were horrified in a charming way, at the thought!

So alright you chaps, what do you think?