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**Jock Scot** · 21st October 11, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

My tailor in Belfast was quite adamant about not sending a bit of Tweed to Bates until I explained that it was for a motoring cap... not something to be worn out shooting.

Some tailors are rather more compliant when they are making at least ten suits a year for an estate!

**CopperNGold** · 22nd October 11, 02:34 AM

The art of effortless-looking dress, but with much thought behind color, cut, fabric and balance, is an art. Always well done, JockScot!

Jocelyn

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 22nd October 11, 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Some tailors are rather more compliant when they are making at least ten suits a year for an estate!

I'm afraid my custom didn't run to that sort of wretched excess!

**Inchessi** · 22nd October 11, 06:13 AM

The guys at the Duck Camp called me a dandy when I showed up with chaps. I wonder how they'd react if I showed with that kind of class. I wonder if I could get that cap in "Wetland" or Cattail".

**piperdbh** · 22nd October 11, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by Inchessi

I wonder if I could get that cap in "Wetland" or Cattail".

Around here it would be "Chiggerweed" and "Kudzu".

**Jock Scot** · 22nd October 11, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by Inchessi

The guys at the Duck Camp called me a dandy when I showed up with chaps. I wonder how they'd react if I showed with that kind of class. I wonder if I could get that cap in "Wetland" or Cattail".

Actually there are another group of shooters in the UK and they would be generally grouped into the wild fowling and pigeon shooting brigade. A fine body of men, who, apart from perhaps the deer stalkers, are closer to nature than many, but the kilt would be far from their sporting attire wardrobe! I note that these days Realtree something or other, rather than tweed, is very much to the fore for these hardy fellows.

**MacLowlife** · 22nd October 11, 03:20 PM

Jock,

I am one of those people who love to catch movie makers in a big error. In the movie THE QUEEN, set at the time of the death of Diana, formerly the Princess of Wales, members of the royal family alternate between the kilt and shooting clothes similar to yours. (They are at Balmoral, I believe.) At one point, there is a party of 6 or 8 people stalking a stag. One person walks by the camera wearing a kilt, while the Duke of Edinburgh and all of the others are in breeks and tweeds. As we say in my neighborhood, it looks pretty nippy in that scene, between the wind and the grey weather, away up on some hill. The hillside doesn't look particularly briar infested and I assume there is no barbed wire.

I went back and tried to find a scene where the stalkers were kilted and didn't find any other, despite several scenes where kilts appear otherwise.

Can we assume the kilted person is there for atmosphere, and not verisimilitude?

**Cowher** · 22nd October 11, 06:16 PM

It seems my thread is really here now.
I have been fowl hunting in a tweed suit for longer than I have been wearing kilts. It's warm, it's thick, it keeps my legs free of thorn cuts and serves the purpose of great hunting clothing for me. I wouldn't wear it for deer hunting or anything later in the season. But for half of the hunting I do, it is perfect.
I don't buy into the commercialism that has boomed in the USA. I have had the same luck wearing jeans and a flannel jacket as I have in full camo.
This spring I waited in a field as my best friend came from a field about a half mile away and he pushed through the woods hot on the heels of a big Tom (turkey).

Well the Tom walked out into the field right in front of me and he became my first harvest of the year. Guess what?? I was wearing a kilt and a dark brown wool work coat.

For those who say a kilt could not or should not be comfortably worn wile hunting I say bollocks. You are just not hunting like me

I love the shooting suit style and I wonder what a kilted adaptation would look like. Any one want to touch on this also?

Cheers!

Oh and Jock… well done Brother! You look smashing!!!

**thescot** · 22nd October 11, 07:47 PM

Only just purchased my first pair of plus-4s in corduroy. I'll probably wear them on the golf course since I don't hunt anymore. But then, who knows! I may tryih the on e hunt before the year is out; there is that deer camp invitation I have in the mail.

I think that the plus-4s will be a hit on the links (I use the term loosely) now that it has finally gotten cool enough for them.

Jock, your outfit is really nice. And, David, why your photo would be a problem is beyond me. Sucks to the point of stupidity if anyone cares what I think.

**SlackerDrummer** · 23rd October 11, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by Cowher

I love the shooting suit style and I wonder what a kilted adaptation would look like. Any one want to touch on this also?

August 1922: M McDonald, a member of Lord Woolavington's House Party, with a gamekeeper in a hide during a grouse shoot on Mannock Moors. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)