Sweaters: In or out?

[The Barry]

Some of this is also going to depend on body shape more than etiquette. A simple mirror-check will do wonders. If you still don't know if you're pulling it off after a mirror check, use the time-tested seal of approval:

Ask yer woman!

[McClef]

If you still don't know if you're pulling it off after a mirror check, use the time-tested seal of approval:

Ask yer woman!

Assuming, of course, that there is one to ask!

[AtagahiKC]

I think it depends on the circumstances, physiology of the person and the fashion sense of the person wearing it.

If you want to create a waistline for yourself, you may wear a shirt tucked in. Traditional kilts hit at the natural waist. Not all of us benefit from foreshortening the torso in that way.

Wearing a sweater on the outside of the kilt lowers the visual waistline to the hips. It elongates the torso and helps hide bulges a little (depending on the fit and thickness of the sweater).

And, what the heck, let's split the difference. It is popular in casual fashion for men to tuck the front of a shirt or sweater in around the belt buckle and let it hang out the rest of the way around. It is a look better suited to thin men, in my opinion.

[Bugbear]

Thin in, thick out. And just for the record, I still enjoy wearing a kilt.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Unless it's a very thin, fitted sweater I would not tuck it in. The bulkiness of sweaters look much better left untucked.

Yes I feel the same.
A thin, close to skin cotton sweater is one thing, an intricately knitted Irish wool sweater another story all together !

[Robertson]

out!!

[Doc]

out!!

I agree, but it is up to you, try it both ways and go from there.

[Jack Daw]

I have a bulky Arran sweater, a body-hugging commando wth crew neck, and a near body-hugging V-neck commando. I always wear the bulky Arran sweater out. I was going to wear the form-fitting commandos in, but I saw a clip of a parade of regimental pipers wearing their commandos out; so, that's the way I'll wear them.