This week's most-wanted is a gorgeous DAKS kilt. Worn Mitford-style with a simple sweater and mannish brogues, as we're all grown-ups there's no need to dwell on the ankle socks. Despite the fact that the first kilt I ever owned - a lovely red tartan number - ended its days as a duster after I'd taken the scissors to it during a Bay City Roller-inspired frenzy, I've always had a penchant for pleated skirts.
Having quit Girl Guide's after a week (it just wasn't the same as Brownies), I had a uniform and a weekday evening going spare. Like a young Tracey Emin, without the dancing, cider and sex, I stitched a frayed tartan trim around the collar and cuffs, and E-R-I-C in big wonky plaid letters across the back of the cornflower blue shirt. Looking back, I should have left the kilt alone and worked on the unmade bed.
Love the kilt - but it might look a tad 'fusty' on moi I feel... Great tartan trim story! Wonder what happened to the BCR's?! x
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice twist on the kilt.
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Did you also cut your trousers shorter, add a tartan trim and wear a scarf tied around your wrist? Bye, bye baby....
ReplyDeleteI've always found kilts so comfy and forgiving but I look schlumpy in them, sort of Dowager Duchess forced to muck out the stables due to dwindling funds.
ReplyDeleteYou are funny!! I never have worn a kilt it adds hips to me which is the last thing I need, ahhhhhhhhhhh.
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It is a fab kilt and all over look.
ReplyDeleteLove the Bay City Rollers tale!
Hi there-love that DAKs skirt, very unique and modern looking too x
ReplyDeleteAh, red tartan. I sewed some round the bottom of my dressing gown in my own Bay City Roller homage..those were the days.
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ReplyDeleteFG - I may have had a piece of kilt tied round my wrist but I didn't need to cut the trousers off, they were too short anyway. And we sang Shang-a-Lang....
Sian - love the idea of a BCR dressing gown. I did actually go out in my shirt but you didn't have to leave the house!
My uncle bought me a kilt when I visited him in Glasgow in my teens -- I still have it around somewhere, but I was 14 when it fit me, so . . . You've reminded me, though, that I haven't yet pulled out of "the winter box" my slightly punk-y non-kilt -- black with white pinstripes, pleats not sewn but somehow creased into the fabric, it nonetheless has that great kilt wrap vibe, and would be perfect with boots today. Not as perfect as the one you've shown us, but pretty great in the fall rain.
ReplyDeleteCrikes did a similar thing with a pair of black trousers unfortunately I also went out wearing them.
ReplyDeleteGod, I loved my Rupert Bear trousers and mini kilts back in the 1980's. Just escaped the Bay City Rollers craze, wasn't one in prison for something dodgy? xxx
ReplyDeleteLove the kilt. Being Scottish, I think I could wear this in quite a tongue-in-cheek way. It's fab. xx
ReplyDeleteHa! I just bought a pleated skirt--in a navy color. Don't yet have a clue what I'll do with it...
ReplyDeleteLove kilts but c'mon we truly love them on men with a great set of legs. Don't we ? Along with a wonderful lilting (more Inverness than Glasgow) Scottish accent.
ReplyDeleteHow sexy is that ?
Materfamilias - perhaps (like me) you could take the make do and mend approach and turn the Scottish kilt into something new!? Like the sound of your punky skirt.
ReplyDeleteWeShop - you've got to get a kilt. I want to see pictures on your blog!
Terri - I have a navy blue kilt too, I wear it with black. I quite like the combination of black & navy.
Wild Thyme - very!
Love that look.
ReplyDeleteooh loving thaty look....prehaps I should go plaid this winter!!
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