Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Perhaps where you come from but here in the UK tartan hose are not and never have been a conventional choice for daywear. Members of the show business profession are sometimes known for their flamboyant choice of dress. Jackie Stewart was not brought up at a time when kilt-wearing was the norm (or even heard of) in his neck of the woods in the west of Scotland so whom he relied upon for his dress choice is anyone's guess.
Maybe it was the same source that I generally use - C. R. MacKinnon's Scottish Tartans and Highland Dress (1970. Glasgow/London: Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.). In multiple places he states that tartan hose are the preferred hose for formal morning dress. Perhaps that is a less-accepted tradition that MacKinnon espoused, and he's leading people astray; though I would guess that it was the accepted form at one time or another, even if it is not so now.