What level of dress would you classify this?

[MacLowlife]

I wonder if I can agree with everyone above, or whether that would mean that I can't make up my mind.

I do hope you get to grinning now and again, because you look pretty good. I also agree that the fancy hose and sporran might be a little much for some situations, just as the casual jacket and waistcoat might fall a little bit short for others. But I think you would look right at home and very good, too, in most church or daytime situations. You might try swapping the tie for a solid colored bow ( not black) if you wanted to be just a little more dressed up for weddings and evening parties- or maybe just leave off the vest. I know that a vest is dressier in some ways, but a nice plain white shirt front is dressy, too, and it eliminates one of the two more casual elements of your rig. I don't think a dressier vest would quite work with the tweed jacket, but it doesn't sound as if you would need it to.

Let me add that I think you would look a hundred times better at, say, a Kirkin of the Tartans service or a funeral than the poor guy who showed up in his Prince Charlie. I am not one of the PC hating crowd, but I do think they look a little bit sad in the daytime. And I think you look great.

[MacLowlife]

Since you are already in Texas, you might try growing your beard to Billy Gibbons length just to balance out your sporran a little bit. You would have the MacLeay theme going on, there, too.

[longhuntr74]

Since you are already in Texas, you might try growing your beard to Billy Gibbons length just to balance out your sporran a little bit. You would have the MacLeay theme going on, there, too.

[artificer]

Since you are already in Texas, you might try growing your beard to Billy Gibbons length just to balance out your sporran a little bit. You would have the MacLeay theme going on, there, too.

You, sir, are so sharp you could cut glass.

[azwildcat96]

Since you are already in Texas, you might try growing your beard to Billy Gibbons length just to balance out your sporran a little bit. You would have the MacLeay theme going on, there, too.

[Nighthawk]

I'm in the revivalist camp! I say it's perfect daywear- just not perfect modern daywear. Change nothing!! (Personally I don't like those huge horsehair sporrans in general, and prefer the simple bag type. But hey- if we all liked the same things, life would get boring!!) Heck, this gentleman is out FISHING in a similar outfit!



Oh yeah- and SMILE!!

[Urchurdan]

One of the officials at the Braemar Gathering this year was dressed very like that, except he had on plain coloured hose. He wasn't the only one wearing a long hair sporran either. Personally, its not my cup of tea, but it certainly didn't raise an eyebrow among the landed gentry there.
I will trawl my pics and see if I caught him on one of them.

[Urchurdan]

I found that manny on one of the pics my wife took, sorry about the quality, he is in the group on the right hand side - he is wearing red hose. As I said, he certainly wasn't out of place among all the other gentry there.
I have added a pic of me wearing my Scottish/American kilt on it's first outing.
For anyone who knows Braemar, we were in the 'cheap' seats, ie the terraces on the right hand side, so the wife is upslope from me, it makes the kilt look a taddy long.
However, it does demonstrate the more moderate day wear sporran the others are talking about I think.

[OC Richard]

I really like the outfit in the photos shown in the original post.

It could have been plucked right out of the third quarter of the 19th century, save for the style of shirt and necktie.

At that time long hair sporrans were worn in all sorts of Highland Dress (the modern "evening" and "day" sporrans having not yet evolved) and it was quite common to wear tartan hose with tweed day jackets (though selfcoloured grey hose were common also).