Stupid Jacket Thread

[Phil]

This May come as a bit of a shock but if you look at women's jackets you will get a good idea of the length required. Men's jackets are too long.

[HarveyH]

I am afraid that I do somewhat disagree with the comparatively modern idea that you have to have a short and cut away jacket with the kilt. It looks great and certainly shows off the kilt, but only 50 years ago people simply could not have afforded the luxury of several jackets. There are plenty of photographs from the 1930's of standard jackets being worn with the kilt, and that would have most likely been the only jacket they owned.

I do have a kilt jacket, but I am more often seen wearing an ordinary tweed jacket or some other sports jacket. The Jackets are a little long and they do come down to just below the fell line on the kilt. Not ideal to show off the kilt, but they work and don't look out of place.

[Liam]

This May come as a bit of a shock but if you look at women's jackets you will get a good idea of the length required. Men's jackets are too long.

I agree Phil... we men can do without the hip flair though.

Cheers...Bill

[Liam]

I am afraid that I do somewhat disagree with the comparatively modern idea that you have to have a short and cut away jacket with the kilt. It looks great and certainly shows off the kilt, but only 50 years ago people simply could not have afforded the luxury of several jackets. There are plenty of photographs from the 1930's of standard jackets being worn with the kilt, and that would have most likely been the only jacket they owned.

I do have a kilt jacket, but I am more often seen wearing an ordinary tweed jacket or some other sports jacket. The Jackets are a little long and they do come down to just below the fell line on the kilt. Not ideal to show off the kilt, but they work and don't look out of place.

If you like the look then by all means go for it.
Concering your references to the past and indeed in current times, insufficient financial resources has always been a factor in deciding what one wears.

Cheers...Bill

[BCAC]

I am afraid that I do somewhat disagree with the comparatively modern idea that you have to have a short and cut away jacket with the kilt. It looks great and certainly shows off the kilt, but only 50 years ago people simply could not have afforded the luxury of several jackets. There are plenty of photographs from the 1930's of standard jackets being worn with the kilt, and that would have most likely been the only jacket they owned.

I do have a kilt jacket, but I am more often seen wearing an ordinary tweed jacket or some other sports jacket. The Jackets are a little long and they do come down to just below the fell line on the kilt. Not ideal to show off the kilt, but they work and don't look out of place.

To me, old ordinary (non kilt) jackets are too long and they look out of place.

The fashion today, even on ordinary (non kilt) jackets, is for the body of the jacket to be a lot shorter. These newer ordinary (non kilt) jackets look better with a kilt due to the shorter body of the jacket.

Some jacket conversions are made too short, and they also look out of place.

[Nathan]

I am afraid that I do somewhat disagree with the comparatively modern idea that you have to have a short and cut away jacket with the kilt. It looks great and certainly shows off the kilt, but only 50 years ago people simply could not have afforded the luxury of several jackets. There are plenty of photographs from the 1930's of standard jackets being worn with the kilt, and that would have most likely been the only jacket they owned.

I do have a kilt jacket, but I am more often seen wearing an ordinary tweed jacket or some other sports jacket. The Jackets are a little long and they do come down to just below the fell line on the kilt. Not ideal to show off the kilt, but they work and don't look out of place.

Although there is plenty of evidence of folks, wearing what they had to get by, modern kilted fashion was set by the aristocracy over the past couple of hundred years. They could afford more than one jacket and most photographic evidence suggests that shorter jackets have been the norm for far longer than the past 50 years (1963?).