Kilt and necktie in matching tartan?

[SlackerDrummer]

As to the the tartan necktie with a kilt, there are those with bona fides who don't and there are those with bona fides who do. There is no "right" or "wrong"; the choice is yours.


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[AFS1970]

I am generally not in favor of the matching tie and kilt but more because of the differences. I remember my mother teaching me that if you try to match two similar colors they will always look off but if you try to contrast two dissimilar colors they might actually compliment each other.

When I first got involved in Kilting there was a "gentleman" who I often saw at highland games near me. He was pointed out as a shining example of what not to wear. I do not remember the tartan but it was bright yellow. Just about everything was either this tartan or white. White hose with yellow tartan flashes, yellow tartan kilt, white shirt, yellow tartan tie, and to top it all off a yellow tartan glengarry. All one could say was Oh My!

[MacSpadger]

As to the the tartan necktie with a kilt, there are those with bona fides who don't and there are those with bona fides who do. There is no "right" or "wrong"; the choice is yours.

Yes, I have seen clan chiefs and pipers who have won the gold medal at both Inverness and Oban wearing tartan ties with their kilts. Nae'buddy died. These are folk that have been very much brought up "in the tradition". Just like other storms in teacups, like belt loops, etc, it's all about individual choice.

Andy Stewart: That brought back memories of the White Heather Club on telly when I was very young. I hated it, my Granny loved it.
Worse was to come. It became popular, and thereby this kind of dancing was introduced into local schools, (Ah'm spikkin' Aiberdeenshire here). At the age of about 6, (when all you want to do is collect frogs, shoot with your catapult and play at sodjers and also know in your heart that girls are the spawn of Beelzebub), we were forced to hold hands with girls and dance to accordian music in the gym hall. I'm surprised I am not relating this tale from a psychiatrist's couch.