Waistcoats

[Bugbear]

I see where you're going with that. I have a gray waistcoat that I can turn up the bottum an inch and a half or so all the way around, and it would work fine with a kilt. Put a safetypin on either side and it's good to go. It just happens to be the right shape and length to do that. I need the waistcoat more for my suits, so I can't hem it.

That is a five button waistcoat; I don't know about the evening waistcoats.

[DWFII]

I see where you're going with that. I have a gray waistcoat that I can turn up the bottum an inch and a half or so all the way around, and it would work fine with a kilt. Put a safetypin on either side and it's good to go. It just happens to be the right shape and length to do that. I need the waistcoat more for my suits, so I can't hem it.

That is a five button waistcoat; I don't know about the evening waistcoats.

Back in the day...Victorian or Edwardian days...men wore their trousers much higher on the torso, very much at roughly the same level as a kilt is supposed to be worn (think military trews, if nothing else). Waistcoats were shorter by comparison to what is worn today and were often cut straight across--no points on the bottom.

For me that provides a rough guide for waistcoats with kilts. Not the only guide or the only look but one that is perfectly in sync with wearing a kilt and a sporran.

My suggestion would be to try turning up the points of your contemporary vest to create a straight bottom and see how that looks rather than trying to turn it up all the way around.

BTW, five button waistcoats with straight bottoms (and high gorge notched-lapels are readily available, in many different fabrics and colours. And almost always of higher quality construction than the one that came with your suit--which is always sort of an afterthought.

[Bugbear]

Back in the day...Victorian or Edwardian days...men wore their trousers much higher on the torso, very much at roughly the same level as a kilt is supposed to be worn (think military trews, if nothing else). Waistcoats were shorter by comparison to what is worn today and were often cut straight across--no points on the bottom.

For me that provides a rough guide for waistcoats with kilts. Not the only guide or the only look but one that is perfectly in sync with wearing a kilt and a sporran.

My suggestion would be to try turning up the points of your contemporary vest to create a straight bottom and see how that looks rather than trying to turn it up all the way around.

BTW, five button waistcoats with straight bottoms (and high gorge notched-lapels are readily available, in many different fabrics and colours. And almost always of higher quality construction than the one that came with your suit--which is always sort of an afterthought.

Yes, that works well to turn the points up on some waistcoats.

I was trying to ask about some of the other neck line styles of waistcoats in a thread, but there's not much excitement over there.

I've also seen waistcoats, in old pictures, that have high neck lines, but do not have the notched-lapels. I don't recall that they were being worn with kilts, though.

From where are the waistcoats readily available, DWFII?