Originally Posted by
fluter
ON cursory research, Mr. Nixon's inauguration in 1969??? It's too bad (IMHO) that Mr. Carter went with the lounge suit, but it was characteristic of the time.
I feel I could come up with a decent kilted version using a charcoal barathea Braemar jacket (which I already have) & gray cravat. But the black Argyll would be more traditional.
Not sayin' I'd wear it in London, but I've worn the kilt from London to Dover. The only known pearl-clutching was from a lady of a certain age from central England (!) who was mollified by the usual genealogical introduction (Mum was a Wallace, her gran' was a MacGregor, etc).
Whilst it does not apply for the wedding in question, there is actually little room to manoeuvre in the Highland equivalent of morning dress. Tweed jackets certainly will not do and really in barathea, to coin a phrase, "you can have any colour you like---------as long as it is black". I can think of a few exceptions to this(3), but then they were "exceptions" in life too, but black is safest and the expected norm.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 23rd February 11 at 06:58 AM.
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