To plaid or not to plaid.....thats the question??

[AFS1970]

For my two kilts I only have a plaid for one of them. I rather like it, but don't feel the need to wear it all the time.

For me the influence was that when I was a teenager and my family joined the local St. Andrews society, most of the gentlemen who had been around a while and certainly all those who were officers of the society wore plaids at formal events. Thus the people that gave me my initial instruction on TCHD wore them, and I started to also.

When I ordered my second kilt, I intended it to be for purely informal events, although I did wear it once formally and it worked out well enough. That time, obviously, I did not wear a plaid, as I don't have one in that tartan.

I am thinking if I end up coming into the funds at some point of a third kilt (seems like such a small number to so many of you) and that one I will order a plaid with, but more so that I have the option to wear it with or without one.

As for formal wear changing, I hate that it has and despite my wife telling me I was born in the wrong century, I will fight kicking and screaming the demise of formal wear.