Quote Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt View Post
I congratulate you on your turnout and would imagine that you were in the top 1 or 2 percent of being dressed up for the event. You are however not in highland semi formal attire. As per my previous post, there is no highland semi formal attire.
Your jacket is formal day attire, the equivalent of morning dress,( think Ascot or being invested by HM Queen Elizabeth II) your sporran is formal evening attire.
Change your tie to a black bow tie and you are at the lower end of black tie formal.

Personally, I'd like to see your kilt to come up a inch or more. Show some knee my good man.
I will attend the event tonight and suspect you will be correct. Perhaps in the future I will put together a complete black tie formal outfit. My employer holds this fund raiser every year and my wife has been on a kick of buying lots of fancy dresses and liking to get dressed up. I think we will have to score some opera tickets for this summer and attend in style. The Santa Fe Opera is an open air venue, so a wool coat and kilt would be perfect for a summer evening at 7000ft.

I am assuming that going with the black bow tie would mean dropping the waist coat and wearing a belt?

There is actually ample knee, the angle of the photos just does not show it. After my wife showed me the pictures I said someone would bring it up.