Belt or no belt?

[davedove]

I always wear a belt with my kilts ( dont have a formal waist coat ) I think a good belt goes a long ways to making a kilt look good. You dont need a belt with a fancy buckle or anything for it to look nice either, any wide belt looks better than no belt at all IMO.

Buzz Kidder makes a heavy casual belt that works great:



It also shows the sporran hangers here, but I rarely use them. This is probably the belt I wear most often when dressing casually.

I'm pretty sure you can get them through the Scottish Tartans Museum and probably other places as well.

[Pour1Malt]

if ya arr no wearin a waistcoat (arr a jumper)

ya luek like a numpty withoot a belt....

wear yur belt lad...

[thescot]

if ya arr no wearin a waistcoat (arr a jumper)

ya luek like a numpty withoot a belt....

wear yur belt lad...

What he said! (What is a numpty, anyway?)

The belt from Kidder is a dandy, alright. But so is CavScout's, which is the best on the market.

[Caddy One]

I prefer the belt...........but that is my opinion only.........

[Chef]

(What is a numpty, anyway?).

An eegit!

[Bryan]

The kilt to me just looks sort of...naked...without a belt. I'm the same about blue jeans or any kind of pant. If you are tucking in your shirt, wear a belt.

[cavscout]

Back on the issue of belt with a waist coat, if you look at this painting by MacLeay, the Gent on the right happens to show the white waist coat worn under the belt. Very interesting.

http://www.imagekind.com/Showartwork...7-fde8250e2600

[bjproc]

Back on the issue of belt with a waist coat, if you look at this painting by MacLeay, the Gent on the right happens to show the white waist coat worn under the belt. Very interesting.

http://www.imagekind.com/Showartwork...7-fde8250e2600

and the gent on the left, wears the belt on the outside of his jacket?

[cavscout]

Over the jacket or doublet is not quite so odd. We still see that today with some of the more formal Scottish dress (Montrose doublet) and the pipers will wear them that way.http://kiltstore.net/sr_gaeli_montro...ar:id=vJUWHn2y



My visualization of the belt "over" a waist coat was not that flattering originally but this doesn't look too bad actually...just different

[Larry124]

The kilt to me just looks sort of...naked...without a belt. I'm the same about blue jeans or any kind of pant. If you are tucking in your shirt, wear a belt.

My opinion also.