Traditional Civilian Highland SHIRTS

[saxandpipes]

"I've come to the conclusion that anything that makes the kilt look more like a costume and less like actual clothing is not a good thing, so I tend to avoid that look as much as possible."

One of the more intelligent answer to the "Kilt Shirt" question that I have heard. Thank you Matt.

This is a good point.

I threw this together today as an experiment. The top half being something I would normally wear with trousers and all this talk of shirts and summer (hot weather) kilt-wear inspired me to see if it would work for the kilt:



To be honest I hadn't thought of it before.

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this traditional thing... If it works with trousers, perhaps it will work with the kilt. Still a little matchy matchy, but thats largely due to the accessories available to me. For now...

Cheers!

Michael

[M. A. C. Newsome]

This is a good point.

I threw this together today as an experiment. The top half being something I would normally wear with trousers and all this talk of shirts and summer (hot weather) kilt-wear inspired me to see if it would work for the kilt:



To be honest I hadn't thought of it before.

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this traditional thing... If it works with trousers, perhaps it will work with the kilt. Still a little matchy matchy, but thats largely due to the accessories available to me. For now...

Cheers!

Michael

Looks very well done to me! Good job!

[saxandpipes]

Looks very well done to me! Good job!

Thanks Matt! I appreciate your opinion!



Cheers,

Michael

[MacLowlife]

CMcG will do a lot for you,


but he is not willing to take a bullet for your bad shirt choice...

[CMcG]

CMcG will do a lot for you,


but he is not willing to take a bullet for your bad shirt choice...

Sorry to throw you under the bus there MacLl, but I've been happily taking my lumps over on Critique my Summer Kilt Wear II Of course you were careful to say that you didn't consider that tartan shirt to be traditional...

Would you care to tell us what your plan is and why it still has tags?

[MacLowlife]

The shirt has its tags because I can't work out a plan for it.- and no occasion has presented itself.

I think MoR is correct, it may work with a dinner jacket. It may even work with a Tartan dinner jacket, if the planets line up just so. But it is sitting in the meantime. One thing is clear, I won't be wearing it with a Dress Gordon kilt anytime soon.

But I remain curious as to the identity of this tartan. Under very strong light, in addition to black and white, you can see dark green and dark blue stripes. There are overplaid stripes of yellow and red. The yellow overplaid lines cross on the blue and the red ones cross on the red. That is like MacLeod of Harris, only there is that white in there...