How to wear your kilt

[Graham]

This is interesting from Scotsman.com:

http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=559852004

A quote:

The man who seems to have single-handedly created the market for modern kilts is Howie Nicholsby, the designer of 21st Century Kilts at Geoffrey (Tailor). Seen on Vin Diesel, Robbie Williams and lots of young men on their wedding day, these designs certainly don’t come with a rule book. "My philosophy is that we would make a kilt in anything a guy would wear in trousers," says Nicholsby. "We don’t do these Lion Rampant or St Andrew’s cross designs because if you want a Scottish identity kilt, a kilt’s enough, or wear a tartan one." He’s used to fending off the critics and says that after wearing a kilt on a daily basis for the last five years, the only people who approach him to complain are Scots. "When you walk about town and see people wearing kilts, it’s mostly travellers and tourists, because they’ve realised it’s a comfortable piece of clothing."

[GMan]

Only once in the last six months has anyone approached me stating that I was not wearing my kilt properly. I had on a t-shirt with my kilt, because I was helping a friend with his booth at a street fair, and it was a t-shirt dealing with his business, she read me the riot act that I was not properly kilted. I just stood their and let her rant when a friend of hers came up to us and said to her that it was OK because I was with this booth then pointed to my friends booth. She looked turned red and left without saying anything. After that more people stopped by my friends booth than had before, it was a constant flow of people the rest of the day.

[Graham]

Glen, the article states that when it comes to contemporary styles of kilts/kilts wearing - anything goes.

which is pretty much the way i feel about it, as you do.

[GMan]

You got that right Graham, isn't it great?

[Graham]

Amen, I often think of your signature....Life is good.
I'm off to bed soon (yes, I do sleep) and tomorrow is another day kilted, together with it's challenges, it makes me think that when you go out in a kilt....you really "put your money where your mouth is" as we say here.

Life is indeed good

[Miah]

That brings up a point i was thinking about.
with my kilt ordered I am attempting to figure out what i will wear with it and how to not look to much like a bum. I am most stuck on foot wear. I have been thinking that possibly a pair of Wing tip oxfords my do posibly a set of Doc Martins or something, i don't want to wear combat boots or something but maybe a pair of 4 eye oxfords. I can't decide seem getting a pair of traditonal Ghillies may be out of reach and I am not sure if i would like the laces tied about the shin and all.

[bubba]

I wear combat boots or black walking shoes most of the time. Hiking boots are good, any decent looking dress shoes are fine, though I think black is best. With boots push the hose down to the boot tops, with regular shoes leave them up. There really is alot of room to try different things with casual dress.

[zeytoun]

IMHO I think that the ghillies with the laces wrapped around the ankles looks kinda odd. There are other looks that I think look very good, like Graham and Bear with hiking shoes and shorter socks, as well as regular oxfords and wingtips with the higher socks.

[Colin]

I too wear regular oxfords for dressier occasions, and either hiking boots or combat boots for day to day wear.

[GMan]

It depends on where I am going, if it is a fairly nice place I wear wingtips, if it's less formal more casual shoes, I find appropriate. Now for the most running around town I wear some sort of boots, hiking, Doc Martens or even high rise (knee length) mocs. One just has to go with the flow.