Quote Originally Posted by DWFII View Post
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?