When I do wear the kilt, I try to make it look like it's just a regular part of the wardrobe...don't know how well I succeed in that but that would seem to be the ideal.

Total agreement with the indispensibility of a tweed jacket: a wardrobe essential but one that seems to have fallen out of favor with the "younger" set (and I'm not that old). Guess that it's associated with "old farts" like dusty college professors (suede elbow patches included) and antique flyfishers as seen in vintage copies of Field and Stream magazine (though showing up to fish in a tweed jacket would really freak out the other guys out there).

Have worn tweed jackets since high school so they're second nature by now. Often wear one with a sweater and jeans...what was once called the "preppie" look but, hell, that's how we all dressed when I was a kid.

The tweed jacket just looks right with the kilt and I keep an eye out for the right one all the time. Got one in the charcoal color a while back but it really is too dark and I'll probably de-accession it soon...a nice neutral mid-grey seems to be the right color. I found a very nice standard cut jacket that's neutral, moderately vintage and has those perfect-for-a-kilt-modification patch pockets at a resale store and snapped it up (it was labelled "Marshall Field's, the now defunct Chicago department store). But...it being perfect the way it is, I decided that I will not try to have it modified into a kilt jacket...it'd just be a waste of a really nice jacket and, let's face it, a kilt jacket that was made to be a kilt jacket looks much better than something that was altered to look like a kilt jacket.

I always think that a good tweed jacket should have that same quality as Rumpole of The Bailey's hat is described: slightly disreputable. In a perfect world, it should be obvious that it's a quality piece of goods that has been well used and well loved and, though a bit worn, the quality still shines through.

Hopefully, that same quality should apply to the wearer.

Best

AA