I woke up this morning to a private message regarding what shoes to wear with a Highland outfit, now the outfit in question is a black tie outfit using a black argyll jacket with silver buttons. The gent asked if he should be using opera shoes. My answer is you should not. Here are a couple of photos of the shoes I would recommend for a Black Tie outfit.
Ghillie Brogues

The other shoe I would recommend is a wingtip or brogue shoe. Mine are from Florsheim and have served me well for years.

Met another kilt wearer walking down the street

A few weeks ago I was walking down the street on a wonderful spring day. I decided to wear the kilt as it was such a wonderful day.  Thomas agreed to pose for a photo to commemorate the meeting. He was in town doing presentations for his work.

Pin for the RNA Tartan

When I first got my Royal Naval Association kilt in honour of my Uncle McMurdo (Murdy) I wanted to get a Scottish Agate Anchor Pin. The problem has been that everyone I've seen on eBay has gone over hundreds of dollars completely out of my budget. Recently I decided to look on a different vintage site and found one suitable at a reasonable price. My only problem now was that the seller would only ship to the United States. I was lucky in that another member of xmarks graciously agreed to ship it to Canada for me. Now that I have the pin in place I will take a trip up to Uncle Murdy's final resting place. Thanks to Kilted Cole for all his help, it means the world to me. Without further ado from me, here is the photo.

It's been a while

I thought I should post an update, as I was looking through the blog and did not realize just how long it has been dormant. My last post was about Tartan Tuesday, we are now coming up to our 3rd Anniversary. This photo was from the first anniversary.

Another big thing is that I designed a tartan for Wildcat Haven, called the Scottish Wildcat Tartan. It has been very well received and we are looking for interest in a fourth run of the tartan, 15% of the proceeds of the sale of the tartan goes to Wildcat Haven to help them with the important work they are doing to try to help the wildcat survive. When we started this project there were estimates of between 30 and 300 Scottish Wildcats left in the wild.

Here is the tartan design and me in my Scottish Wildcat Tartan Kilt Suit.