You'll probably find some tweeds...I find some really nice ones all the time and it's tough to not bring all of them home when they're $5-$10 and nice material.

(My wife is the one great motivating factor for my leaving them behind..."do you really need another __________?" you can fill that in with "jacket", "camera", "fishing rod", "typewriter"...what-ever.)

Anyway....when you see a lot of different tweed jackets on the rack, you'll see that they usually have a sort of predominant color cast to them. Some are neutral, bluish, greenish, tannish...you get the idea. It's a judgement call as to what goes with any given tartan and you do have to take your own coloration into consideration...are you whitish, pinkish, olive-ish, tannish...once again, you get the idea. So it's a question of putting the whole thing together color-wise. You'll probably find something that definitely doesn't go with the Black Watch but you'll find more that do.

Beware, however, the much criticised "matchy-matchy" look where everything is so perfectly color coordinated that it looks artificial. You've got some lee-way in tossing in the odd-but-complimentary color that breaks up the matchy-matchy thing.

I'm trying to remember the thread from a couple of months back where the question of what goes with what was beat to death and many of our members from the Old Country pointed out the tendency to over color coordinate (AS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM). I think that we've all been on our toes since then to cool it on the "perfectly matched" outfits.

Don't forget that some of the best jackets to convert are snug fitting and have patch pockets! You're more likely to find patch pockets on tweeds than on anything else.

Best

AA