Balmoral Toorie Colour

[ThistleDown]

The red toorie, to me at least, has always seemed to be a caricature if you will, of Scottish attire. I've been thinking of changing it to a more subdued colour which wouldn't seem to stand out and scream look at me. Dark green, or lovet green would be my first choice of colour.

So, if your toorie isn't red, what colour have you chosen?

Well, we don't really think of it as a caricature (saving that thought for the Harry Lauder walking stick, perhaps). It's just that the Balmoral is readily available in colours of black, navy blue, and a few others and that the black and blue ones usually come with red toories. Choose a colour you like.

[JSFMACLJR]

Again, there is the obsession with everything "matching." If you want to change the colour of the toorie, sure, go ahead. Personally, I don't even think about it, or worry about it. Who actually cares???

As an interesting side-bar to all this talk about having a toorie that compliments one's tartan, the Duke of Argyll favours a red toorie with any balmoral!





So did his late father:

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Well, we don't really think of it as a caricature

ThistleDown, I appologize, no offense meant, a poor choice of word on my part.

Since I'm pretty much the lone kilt wearer in my area I want to impart a good image to those whom I meet while I'm out and about kilted. I seemed to recall that most of the balmorals that I have seen "out in the wild" (they being roaming free of catalouge pages) didn't have red toories. I might be a bit confused on this matter however.

Thanks to JSFMACLJR for giving some fine examples of toories that do look very proper being red. I do notice a lovet green coloured one on the cap in the background of the first photo, and also on the cap of the gentleman speaking with the Dukein the second. The cap does appear to my eye to be of a like colour as the toorie, and perhapse that explains the colour choice. As to the colour matching my kilt, the red would definately match better than would green. However, I simply like how I imagine a green toorie would look.

TheScot, you look very distinguished in your avitar.