Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[DWFII]

Not to put too fine a point on it...if I understood him correctly, Hamish recently commented that he has a pair of buckle shoes made in the style of the "Culloden era" and he wears them to formal events with alacrity.

As to the business with the PC, and whether to wear it during the day...that is undoubtedly determined by fashion and what is fashionable. Once upon a time it was fashionable, all over the Western world, to wear a jacket, w'scoat, and tie during the day... for everyone except common labourers. Today it's blue jeans and branded T-shirts--we're all walking advertisements for companies we have no holdings in and which are not universally benevolent...but that's another thread.

If a garment is worn with a certain probative deliberation and a respect for tradition...hence this thread...I don't think it is ever really "old fashioned." Only in some people's mind...maybe those who could care less about traditions?

I have worn frock coats and stand up collars in a former life and because...and mostly because...I researched the "look" and wore it with respect, I never got anything but compliments. People would go out of their way to photograph me and be photographed with me.

Maybe the impasse here is that, for myself at least, I'm just as much a rebel as those who wear non-traditional kilts, but in a different way. I am indifferent to "fashion" but I revere traditions and to some extent history. There is a freedom that comes from knowing you've "got it right" and not caring what the moguls of fashion think. Of course, you actually do have to "have it right." Again, hence this thread.

I'm a wild and crazy guy...stop me before I buy a vintage broach.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't stating all that well enough. I was asking DWFII for clarification in my first sentence. I thought I went on to give my opinion that "tradition" and "fashion" are two entirely different things. Today it is unfashionable to wear a PC during the day, even in Scotland. But it was formerly traditional to do so. Because elsewhere in this thread we have criticised someone doing so, does that mean that it is no longer "traditional"?

Perhaps the same thing holds true with 18C buckled shoes? In Scotland they are out of fashion today and, although I've not seen them worn for years, I suspect that if they were the wearer would be thought of as "old fashioned". That may not be true in Canada or the US, of course.

So, if something is unfashionable for a period of time, does it become untraditional, as well?

I think, DWFII and Frank, we are in agreement and it's only the terms we are discussing .