formal jackets and the cookie cutter aversion

[MacLowlife]

Not so fast, McBug, I have to learn everything they told YOU, first...Still looking for pictures of everything discussed. By the way, I found some great TARTAN pinwale corduroy. That is going to become something, I can promise you, and probably not something cookie-cutter.

All the Best

[Bugbear]

Too late! Greatness has already been thrust upon you.

[Bugbear]

And by the way, I suggest a five or six button waistcoat along with jabot and cuffs for evening attire.

[McMurdo]

And by the way, I suggest a five or six button waistcoat along with jabot and cuffs for evening attire.

That all depends on the Doublet though Ted, I certainly would not want a waistcoat on under my Montrose.

[sydnie7]

And by the way, I suggest a five or six button waistcoat along with jabot and cuffs for evening attire.

Methinks Mr. Crocker neglected the "smilie" after this statement

[Bugbear]

That all depends on the Doublet though Ted, I certainly would not want a waistcoat on under my Montrose.

I've heard of people wearing T-shirts under their Montrose.

sydnie7 has jabot and cuff sets in her signature.

[McMurdo]

I've heard of people wearing T-shirts under their Montrose.

sydnie7 has jabot and cuff sets in her signature.

A t-shirt is fine, in fact I wear one under mine, however a waistcoat would be a tad much.

[Bugbear]

I suppose it helps that you are up there in the north most of the time.
I haven't looked too much into the Montrose discussions and descriptions because it's too hot for one down here.

I think if I were going to have a formal doublet it would be cut like an Argyle or aSheriffmuir .

[Smayniac]

Don't forget pin wale corduroy.

gee Ted, I have a rusty orange(you of the right age remember the color) Levis WIDE wale corduroy blazer. As it has no lining, it ought to be easy to modify. Can you all imagine it with, well any kilt you can think of?

Bob

[Garry Oak]

...the tailor looked me square in the eyes and said " .....if you want a jacket as you described you should have known not to come here, in this part of the world, the West Highlands, if you want a kilt jacket made by me, THIS is what you get---nothing else."

That's wonderful. You knew how to choose the right tailor even though your account suggests that, at 20, you might not yet have had 'everything else' sorted out. You put yourself into the hands of a man whose motto seems to have been, "No one leaves my shop looking wrong."

Thank you for that example, sir.