Old photo find

[M. A. C. Newsome]

A few more things I noticed about these photos...

One was the lack of a kilt belt with many of the daywear outfits.

But the first thing I noticed -- and I see the same thing whenever I see photos from this era of any kind of Highland Gathering -- was despite the fact that this was during the day and outdoors, every gentleman present was in a jacket and tie, if not a jacket, waistcoat and tie. Contrast this to the usual attire seen at Highland Games and other outdoor Scottish gatherings (at least here in the states); a t-shirt, or a "ghillie" shirt (which are also conspicuous by their absense in these older photos).

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

Photoshop ?

No. oddly enough that's how I found the picture.. that one pair is very white..

ThistleDown
I wondered if "home knitted hose" might have been part of the genesis of the cream hose. Un-dyed wool is sometimes cheaper than dyed wool. I love my hose that my Mother has knitted, they are much warmer than the mass produced ones.
Sara

[Panache]

"A white sports coat and a pink carnation..."

Just fashion phases. Not right, not wrong, but just for now.

Ah but what about a white dinner jacket like Humphrey Bogart wore in Casablanca? I think that one might have been a keeper.

When a type of fashion ceases to evolve and becomes rigidly fixed it ceases to be fashion, it becomes a costume.


Cheers

Jamie

[Ancienne Alliance]

Okay, I'm aware I posted these photos recently on another thread but it was just to hard for me not to post them again here.
















Best,


Robert

[Redshank]

A few more things I noticed about these photos...

One was the lack of a kilt belt with many of the daywear outfits.

But the first thing I noticed -- and I see the same thing whenever I see photos from this era of any kind of Highland Gathering -- was despite the fact that this was during the day and outdoors, every gentleman present was in a jacket and tie, if not a jacket, waistcoat and tie. Contrast this to the usual attire seen at Highland Games and other outdoor Scottish gatherings (at least here in the states); a t-shirt, or a "ghillie" shirt (which are also conspicuous by their absense in these older photos).

Well Matt, in Scotland it's the norm that if your wearing a waistcoat / vest, you don't wear a belt, and as for your other observation, please consider these photo's where taken in Scotland at a time when personal appearance and self respect where common place.

[Jock Scot]

Well Matt, in Scotland it's the norm that if your wearing a waistcoat / vest, you don't wear a belt, and as for your other observation, please consider these photo's where taken in Scotland at a time when personal appearance and self respect where common place.

Just so that you know, I still wear a tweed waistcoat, Argyll and tie(no belt)most of the time when wearing the kilt as everyday attire. I do not think anything is unusual in that and I am also rarely without my cromach, which is no accessory. I think that if you find any kilted picture of me, I will, probably, be wearing said items. Of course if I had to put up with the temperatures that some of you chaps have to contend with, a sharp rethink of attire would be in order!

[Peter C.]

When I was young we always wore jacket and tie when we went out in the evening, but I wouldn't like to do that in the warm seasons here in Tennessee.

If we decide from old photographs the correct way to wear highland dress, we are probably lucky that they didn't have cameras when the pleats weren't stitched in kilts or some people might be frowning at our beautiful hand made tanks.

I agree with Jamie, if fashion stops evolving it becomes a costume.

Peter

[Mael Coluim]

A few more things I noticed about these photos...

One was the lack of a kilt belt with many of the daywear outfits.

But the first thing I noticed -- and I see the same thing whenever I see photos from this era of any kind of Highland Gathering -- was despite the fact that this was during the day and outdoors, every gentleman present was in a jacket and tie, if not a jacket, waistcoat and tie. Contrast this to the usual attire seen at Highland Games and other outdoor Scottish gatherings (at least here in the states); a t-shirt, or a "ghillie" shirt (which are also conspicuous by their absense in these older photos).

Matt, at the University of Virginia, the students (all males I might add, unless the student was in nursing school or Education) until the late sixites were required to wear coat and tie in class. As a famous singer of that era said, "the times were a changing".

[ThistleDown]

Ah but what about a white dinner jacket like Humphrey Bogart wore in Casablanca? I think that one might have been a keeper.

When a type of fashion ceases to evolve and becomes rigidly fixed it ceases to be fashion, it becomes a costume.


Cheers

Jamie

Me, too, but that would have made it a costume . Ah, perhaps it has become just that, and always accompanied by a voice in the head instructing Sam to "Play it again"

[ThistleDown]

No. oddly enough that's how I found the picture.. that one pair is very white..

ThistleDown
I wondered if "home knitted hose" might have been part of the genesis of the cream hose. Un-dyed wool is sometimes cheaper than dyed wool. I love my hose that my Mother has knitted, they are much warmer than the mass produced ones.
Sara

I've no idea, Sara, but I still have and occasionally wear two "natural" pair knitted for me in the mid- to late-fifties (I think). Hose were always washed in cold water and laid out to dry mounted on wire stretchers. Oh my, that was a flash-back! My guess is that its the remaining lanolin that gave/gives them that ever so slight greasy feel. The pair of my father's I still have must be from the late forties; they, too, are off-white, but of a much finer wool and of a fairly complex pattern.