Need advice for first time semi formal kilt wearing

[TheForrester]

....... Perhaps in the future I will put together a complete black tie formal outfit. .........

Gentlemen, please, black tie is not formal. Black tie is evening wear, or (sometimes called) semi-formal. White tie is formal. In Saxon terms, a tuxedo is "semi-formal" or evening wear. "White tie and tails" is formal.

A Prince Charlie with black tie is evening wear. For formal, you should have a regulation doublet with white tie.... or higher.

And, please also, a wing tip collar is for white tie only. You should not look like you have a ribbon noose around your neck. If black tie, please use turn-down collar so that the black ribbon does not show.

(and, yes, I know that some of this might be controversial, especially in the U.S. where formality is a lost art. So be it.)

[OC Richard]

Very smart gbmaz!

My only suggestions would be to show a bit more knee- have the tops of the hose a bit lower, and the bottom of the kilt a bit higher (say, the top of the kneecap or a hair lower, where most people wear it nowadays) and when wearing a waistcoat to not button the jacket.

These aren't "rules" but just conventions one usually sees, so that one's "eye" gets used to them.