Which outfit is "more Scottish?"

[Phil]

For sure, Phil. The world-wide similarity in day-to-day dress today is a given. Pretty difficult to describe a culture these days based on dress alone, isn't it? Perhaps a good few of us were reading between the member's lines when he asked his question, but I think he wanted to know what a Scot would wear as kilted attire (this being a forum all about kilts) and offered a couple of possibilities for us to choose from.

To know what a Scot would wear as kilted attire you only have to read Jock Scott's posts. The guiding principle always is - less is more. My father, who travelled the world as a sailor, had a saying about American people, and it was an affectionate one - "Why use two words when ten will do?". He was intrigued when walking there for exercise how many cars would stop and offer him a lift, as if walking somewhere was somehow unusual. This was in the days before the 1939-45 war I might add when car ownership in Britain was much lower. He was also intrigued by a policeman in Tampa at the docks there who drew his pistol and started shooting at fish swimming around the ship he was on. But I digress, a Scot wearing a kilt during the daytime would probably have a sweater, kilt, leather sporan, hose and stout shoes, probably brogues. If he was a bit older he might instead have a tweed jacket and waistcoat with shirt and tie along with the kilt, leather sporan, hose and brogues. If he was a city dweller going to a "posh" night out he would probably wear a Prince Charlie, wing collar shirt with bow tie, fur sporan and off-white hose with ghillie brogues - all probably hired. If he was an upper-class twit of the aristocratic persuasion then he would probably wear his great-great-grandfather's kilt, tartan hose, moth-eaten fur sporan, ancient doublet and jabot, all suitably altered by the family's tailor with some young lady called Penelope or Hermione on his arm.