Quote Originally Posted by frank_a View Post
Good advice Tobus. I knew I could get an answer here that would work. Never thought of tucking the tag end inbetween the shirt buttons, though in my experience, that always shows some from the side. Tucking it inot the kilt works for me, and now that you mention it, I remember seeing that before.
It can show from the side if it's a narrower tie. But a wide tie will hide it just fine. Tucking it into the bottom also has a risk of showing if the tie is tied just above the top of the kilt. As you can see in my photos below, in the first example I've tucked the tail into my kilt (you can see it just behind the bottom "V" of my tie). In the second, though, I've tucked it between the buttons of the front placket because the tie is plenty wide enough to hide it.




This is one of those silly issues that you have to really think about when you're getting dressed. I usually don't tie my tie until my kilt is on, so I can adjust the length to sit at the top of my kilt. But because the kilt is already on, it's a tad difficult to fish the tail end between the shirt buttons and then be able to pull it from underneath. There's a lot of wiggling and squirming as I attempt to push it below my kilt line, from inside the shirt, and then reach up under the kilt and find it to pull it snug. It's much easier just to tuck it into the kilt right behind the front part of the tie. But I just don't like being able to see it there, as in my first photo above.

The third option, as I mentioned previously, is just to tuck the whole kit-n-kaboodle into the kilt, and not worry about how long you've tied the tie. As shown below.




Saxon style dress? Pray tell, what is that, and distinguished from what other style of kilt dress?

Thanks!

Frank
It's just a term we use here to differentiate between common men's clothing styles when wearing trousers and suits, as opposed to Highland (kilted) styles which follow a different set of rules. So far as I know, it's incorrect for a man wearing trousers to tuck his entire tie into his trousers. But it's done quite often with kilts.