My Tuxedo Kilt Suit

[skirtingtheissue]

An excellent, dignified, very smart look. And so much better than the strange creations the haute couture fashion guys have set loose on the runways. Your outfit makes one wonder why (male) skirt wearing isn't more universal.

[Sarongman]

Mugman, I haven't replied to this thread before, which is a regrettable omission on my part, however I must congratulate you on a fine and dressy outfit. This has strengthened a desire I have held for an order in the future when we make a trip to Fiji, where similar (but not quite so dressy) outfits are almost obligitary for their parliamentarians

[mugman]

I believe male skirting/kilting can be good looking without making a performance out of it. When wearing trousers we don't usually take pains every time to look like a designer creation, so why should a simple kilt or skirt, instead of pants, be any different?

If my local mens' clothing store had this suit available, as an alternative to one with pants, I wonder what the reaction would be. Any store with just an ounce of entrepreneurial clout might run this type of outfit just for research purposes alone...they might even be surprised at the results!

Pete

[BBB]

Superb outfit, which will cut a dash.

[MoonDrake]

Very good looking outfit, to my 80 year old moms dismay I'm putting a kilt suit together for church.

[mugman]

My mum had an initial worry about my kilt wearing, about six years ago now, as we have no Scottish connections. Sadly she's no longer around but achieved 93 years.

I could understand her thought process, she having been brought up in a much different world to myself. She was born in 1915 many many decades before more enlightened times, and I expect the various values one becomes indoctrinated with, and grow up with, stick for life. That is, men wear trousers, and are expected to. Only Scotsmen wear kilts.

On one particular day when I'd chosen to wear a kilt, she asked 'It is for comfort isn't it?' 'Of course' I replied. She never queried it after that, and even, after a few months, joked that she might want to borrow one.

I believe we have to prove through example that our trouser'd 'from cradle to grave' condemnation is totally unacceptable. If this means devising my own non-Scottish approach, from a basically common sense angle - simply a kilt or skirt instead of trousers, then I'm happy with that simplicity of approach.

Good luck with the kilt suit!

Pete

[couyalair]

I fell in love with tweed outfits some time ago, but found the prices prohibitive. I finally decided to splash out a bit and order a tweed kilt plus some extra cloth which I had made into a waistcoat. I think that together they look fabulous. The tweed is Scottish, but without tartan, so does not look Scottish to the average man, and the rough tweedy look has always been associated with men -- country gentlemen, so does not look in anyway feminine or ambiguous. Nothing but advantages. And it's comfortable and lighter than I had expected. Not as formal as Pete's splendid suit, but I'm not one for formal occasions anyway.

Martin