Tradition of Non-Cookie-Cutter Kilt Jackets?

[Jock Scot]

I am continually surprised by the varioty of kilt jackets that come up in the Traditional Highland Attire threads; I mean that in a good way.

It's been pointed out by the Highland attire traditionalists, for example, that it doesn't matter a whole lot whether the daywear jacket has a one, two, or three button closure. I started this thread partly in response to another thread discussing a PC without the double row of buttons on the sides, and a three button closure.

It's interesting and a bit refreshing in a world where three button suits are more formal than two button suits and people obsess over other people's shoulder pad size and lapel width.

Ted I really would not get too wound up about the number of buttons on which jacket thing. X number of buttons look right on some jackets and Y number of buttons can look all wrong on on others.Where does the number of buttons on a jacket and formality idea come from?

[Bugbear]

Ted I really would not get too wound up about the number of buttons on which jacket thing. X number of buttons look right on some jackets and Y number of buttons can look all wrong on on others.Where does the number of buttons on a jacket and formality idea come from?

Jock, it is the other side of the American culture that you probably don't hear a lot about. The "always casual folk" and the "button counters" almost feed off each other, and it leaves the people who are in the middle paranoid about being too dressed up or too casual. There's parts of the business world that have this going on too.

I don't think I'm explaining it very well, but when you hear people making a game of picking out non-bespoke jackets and commenting about how aughful they look, and how they can spot them from a mile away... It just leaves you wondering what is being said behind your own back.

Then you throw on top of all of that, the aditude from both extremes of "I am always right," and it just makes a nervous mess of everything. That is also where this concept of the "kilt police" is probably coming from; an over reaction I guess.