What is appropriate for Tartan Day

**Styckbow** · 3rd April 19, 10:24 AM

Our local Scottish club is hosting a Tartan day event in conjunction with a Clay Walker concert this Saturday. We are doing a pub style supper before the concert and a dance with a celtic band after the concert. As a member of the hosting club I have to wear a club t-shirt with a pride of Scotland kilt, now the question I have for the rabble is it appropriate to wear my pride of Scotland hybrid (Black Utility kilt with pride of Scotland in the pleats) with my celtic arm bracers (keep in mind we are going with a pub style fomat) with a tweed flat cap? Or should I just wear the regular pride of Scotland kilt without the bracers and cap?

**Jock Scot** · 3rd April 19, 10:28 AM

From a traditionalist kilt wearers point of view, leave the cap off, particularly if the event is indoors.

**Tobus** · 3rd April 19, 10:32 AM

I would agree with Jock Scot that a tweed flat cap with a kilt, especially indoors, is not appropriate from a purely traditionalist point of view. But given the description of the rest of your outfit, I don't think you need to worry about any traditionalist rules. That's a very modern style of kilt, and it sounds like you'll be wearing it in a very modern sort of outfit, in which case flat caps seem to fit right in with others I've seen wear similar outfits.

**FossilHunter** · 3rd April 19, 12:15 PM

No comment on the cap but I’d leave off the bracers. Approaches costume to me.

**Karl R** · 3rd April 19, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Styckbow

As a member of the hosting club I have to wear a club t-shirt with a pride of Scotland kilt....

Based on your choice of words, it sounds like there is an existing set of rules for what you should wear. Have you tried asking whomever established those rules?

**Allan Thomson** · 4th April 19, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by FossilHunter

No comment on the cap but I’d leave off the bracers. Approaches costume to me.

I found it quiet ironic some posters see the cap as more costumey than the bracers!!

**plaid preacher** · 4th April 19, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Allan Thomson

I found it quiet ironic some posters see the cap as more costumey than the bracers!!

Allan, I think you have read that backwards. Fossilhunter said it was the braces that make it costumey.

**Luke MacGillie** · 4th April 19, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Allan Thomson

I found it quiet ironic some posters see the cap as more costumey than the bracers!!

Trying to get people to stop wearing caps indoors, many have pretty much given up. But vambraces unless your actually shooting a longbow is a bit beyond the pale. I have a feeling that someone is going to have a horn on their belt, and someone else will say Skrall.