Tartan Dinner Jacket on ebay

**Dixiecat** · 2nd February 10, 11:28 AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Austin-Reed-...item27af1236ee

I love this!!!

**csbdr** · 2nd February 10, 01:09 PM

That would be sharp converted to a kilt jacket, with a black kilt and waistcoat.

**macwilkin** · 2nd February 10, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by csbdr

That would be sharp converted to a kilt jacket, with a black kilt and waistcoat.

Or simply worn as originally designed, with formal trousers.

I know...I'm a heretic.

T.

**MacLowlife** · 2nd February 10, 02:46 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/NWT-TOMMY-HILFIG...item518bc71ef1

Or perhaps this one...

They do come up fairly often and $250 is a little bit on the high side... In addition to the two discussed here, there have been a handful of Black Watch ones in what looks like a morning coat cut. They are even MORE expensive (and arguably less practical in the US, where morning dress doesn't show up much) but they are fairly cool, too.

It might be interesting to consider matching a tartan DJ, altered to Argyll cut, with a tartan kilt, like the kilt suits discussed elsewhere.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 3rd February 10, 12:47 AM

I prefer tartan doublets cut in the biais.

Best,

Robert

**JolyStNicholas** · 3rd February 10, 05:43 AM

I do like the first much more, very smart looking, as you say with formal trousers. Why do they always makes these so SMALL?

**David Thornton** · 3rd February 10, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by JolyStNicholas

I do like the first much more, very smart looking, as you say with formal trousers. Why do they always makes these so SMALL?

Funny, I was going to ask why so big?

**Tobus** · 3rd February 10, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by David Thornton

Funny, I was going to ask why so big?

Me too. I consider myself "normal size", and I find it incredibly hard to find anyone selling clothes that are my size. Somehow "big and tall" became "average".

**MacLowlife** · 3rd February 10, 08:54 AM

In my experience, items from the UK, particularly vintage items, tend to be smaller than a size 40 chest, often going as small as 36. This is true even for military items, particularly WWII and earlier. I read recently that the average American man now wears a 42, up from a 40 R, which was the case for decades.

Alexander the Great is said to have been 5'6" or so, as was that Corsican gent with the good looking wife.

We are fortunate these days to have the internet and computer aided size-sorting. The majority will still be the majority, but other sizes needn't be at the corner store to be available.

**Tobus** · 3rd February 10, 09:25 AM

We are fortunate these days to have the internet and computer aided size-sorting. The majority will still be the majority, but other sizes needn't be at the corner store to be available.

The down side to that is that retailers will only carry what they can sell the most of. So anyone who isn't the same size as the majority will HAVE to shop online. And as we all certainly know, buying something online can be risky because you can't actually try it on before purchasing.