My first time wearing my Scottish clothes and accessories.....

[Jock Scot]

For what its worth, I would forget the wing tip collar and go with a fold down collar. Why? You will look like a Dickensian clerk with the wing tip collar! Also, never (ok never say never) NEVER wear a tartan tie with the tartan kilt. I know some do, but...............you really have to know your kilt attire particularly well to get away with it and few do.

Remember two things, "less is more" and "keep it simple".

[Taskr]

An interesting observation, Jock. I am accustomed to wearing wingtip collar from my military mess kit days, which transferred over to tuxedo. Just conducted a Google image search, to include Prince Charles formal kilted of course, and low and behold excepting images seemingly from hire shops not many wingtip collars to be seen at all. I do have a formal fold-down collar for use with tux for a particular group, and have only worn for that. With a formal dinner tonight, I shall wrest myself from wing-tip to wear the fold-down with the kilt!

and ditto to the tartan tie. I could never make that work.

[CollinMacD]

For what its worth, I would forget the wing tip collar and go with a fold down collar. Why? You will look like a Dickensian clerk with the wing tip collar! Also, never (ok never say never) NEVER wear a tartan tie with the tartan kilt. I know some do, but...............you really have to know your kilt attire particularly well to get away with it and few do.

Remember two things, "less is more" and "keep it simple".

Agreed...

[CollinMacD]

For what its worth, I would forget the wing tip collar and go with a fold down collar. Why? You will look like a Dickensian clerk with the wing tip collar! Also, never (ok never say never) NEVER wear a tartan tie with the tartan kilt. I know some do, but...............you really have to know your kilt attire particularly well to get away with it and few do.

Remember two things, "less is more" and "keep it simple".

Sir,

Just wanted to let you know, I took you advise on most items, and agree with you fully. The only item I stuck to was my Military Medals, and just wanted to let you know, about 99% of the Veterans that attended the Clan Dinner, all wore their Military Medals, active, retired and veterans. I asked them about his, and all referred to a group called SAMS, and told me they recommend that all active and veterans display their medals. I don't know who SAMS is, but sound interesting. So, Jock, please I don't mean to throw this back, I just wanted to inform you of what most seem to be doing here in the US with regard to military medals during formal dress occasions. I did were a nice fold down collar shirt, black tie, kilt slightly above knee, plan black hose, and the improved on all the other small items people stated. I felt so much better and confident because of the advice I received from you and others. I certainly have other occasions that I will be attending, which I will not display the military medals. I did notice about 50% were wearing flies, and some with medals too. I can see why they clash, and did not wear my fly, took your advice on that, no belt neither. I did as you suggested KEPT IT SIMPLE, and agree with you fully.

So thank you so much, Jock and everybody else who made suggestions.

Collin MacDonald

[Sandyman]

Hello everybody. This is my first time putting on Scottish clothing and all the accessories, so I have enclosed a photograph, and wanted to ask the more experiences folks, did I put on everything correctly? I certainly do not want to misrepresent my Scottish heritage, and want to make sure everything is being worn correctly. Thank you for looking... FYI... my clan is MacDonald of Clanranald. I have done my Geneology all the way back to 1650, and my family comes from Knoydart, and Inverness. Yes, they were Jacobites, and were in the Scottish Clearances, thus ended up in Nova Scotia. My grandfather came from St. Andrews, Antigonish, NS to the U.S. in 1912, became a U.S. citizen in 1934. My grandfather was a MacDonald (MacBride). My grandmother came from South River, Antigonish, NS, and was a Chisholm (MacIntosh), from Archibald (Ban) Chisholm, both arrive on the Brigantine "Nora" in 1790, from Fort Williams, near Inverness Shire, Scotland.



I served in the US Coast Guard, and according to CG Instructions, authorized to wear my award medal in miniature. Thank you for looking, hope to hear your feedback, good or bad....

As an military man, you will appreciate dress conventions and traditions when it comes to uniform. Much of modern Highland dress and its civilian wearing conventions have been borrowed from the Highland regiments, often with very goon reason, and most of what is considered correct form in civilian use today is no different from military practice.

You might find the information contained in the Royal Regiment of Scotland Dress Regulations booklet a useful guide, as most (if not all) of Highland dress is made to be worn, or positioned, in a similar way to that adopted by the army - particularly where the kilt is intended to sit on the waist and the relationship of the hose. Follow this link -http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/OfficialDressRegulationsHandBook.pdf

You appear to have been very successful so far, and should be commended! The advice given by others on this thread is fair, but the rule of thumb with Highland dress is that it is conventional to dress up, rather than dress down. Decoration and ornamentation in clothing and accessories is the ancient tradition and a useful guide when in doubt.