Colors - Matching

[Nathan]

I prefer a more colour coordinated approach but that might just be because my kilt has red, green, blue, black and white so most of the accessories available are sold in these colours. I don't go out of my way to match the exact shade. For example, my lovat green tweed jacket, the forest green TOS, the loden green hose and the bottle green in my kilt aren't exact matches, but they certainly are complimentary.

I often wear a tattersail shirt with tan and black checks but that is coincidentally picked up by my sporran and shoes regardless of whether I go with black or brown.

I like to pick up the red in my kilt with my garter ties and checked hose cuffs. A burgundy pocket square also ties in with the reds. As I said, I'm not concerned with shade, really.

I sometimes wear my dad's "matching" tartan waistcoat but it really isn't because the set is smaller and the white is yellowed by my father's nicotine addiction.

The diced hose I wear with my formal rig aren't visible in the photo but they are claret and green diced which pick up the major colours from the clanranald tartan. My Balmoral doublet is bottle green which is a colour in my tartan, but so is black so even if I went with the more common choice, I'd still be picking up a colour.

When I wore my new charcoal jacket recently, I opted for charcoal hose to compliment the jacket rather than any of my other hose (several shades of green, navy) that would pick up the tartan. My usual red garter ties did pick up the red in my kilt and my necktie, a burgundy, gold and green also tied in with the tartan, though not exactly.

The shot with my fellow xmarks members at the Embro games was on Canada Day, so red and white were a deliberate feature in the ensemble.

I don't go out of my way to match every bit and bob but I also don't feel the need to avoid it either. I like to look pulled together, but I think avoiding exact shades helps avoid a matchy matchy look while still achieving a look that displays something other than random. To each his or her own.

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