#le kilt.

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2016

24 February 2016 || The Duchess of Cambridge visited St Catherine's Primary School in Edinburgh.

[princessanneftw]

Sir Tim Laurence’s trousers seem to be the Balmoral tartan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Source: @cosmo-macaroon’s eagle eyes

[shamedumpster]

A Midsummer night's Dream Play AU?

Both you and @is-it-mungojerry-or-rumpelteazer asked about this one ^^

This is one of two that I basically just have a thorough outline done for. The basic summary is it's the Amis final year of high school, and their final play they're all doing together, which happens to be Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Enjolras is a trans man who has specifically asked to be given a male part, and Grantaire basically just wants the closest seat possible to watch Enjolras perform. Further summary below the cut:

Unfortunately, their casting director ignores Enjolras' request to be cast male, and casts him as Titania instead. And Grantaire is cast as Bottom.

(If you don't know A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania is essentially temporarily cursed by Puck to fall in love with an ass, that "ass" being Bottom, who's had his head magically turned into that of a donkey, also by Puck.)

[love cursed] Titania: “Thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me on the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.”

What follows is the two of them getting closer and bonding throughout rehearsals (and private line-practicing), and Grantaire trying to find a way behind the scenes to make this part more comfortable for Enjolras to play, be they against the director's wishes or not.

Also Bottom is just very R coded. For example:

Bottom: “Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.”

thank you for the ask!

[disease]

AW19 LOOKBOOK for LE KILT PHOTOGRAPHY: PAUL PHUNG

[kiltedcubfll]

[allaboutkilts]

kilts

Scottish Kilt est une entreprise basée sur Internet qui vend tout ce qui a trait aux kilts, aux kilt et autres accessoires. Elle offre une large sélection de kilts et vend des kilts pour les femmes, les hommes et même les enfants. Tout d'abord, permettez-moi de déclarer que Scottish Kilt est un nom qui non seulement chérit ses clients mais ne les prend pas pour acquis. Nous nous efforçons d'offrir à nos clients des produits de qualité supérieure au prix le plus abordable. C'est pourquoi nos clients nous adorent, et nous aussi. Nous fabriquons nos produits à 100% à la main, tout comme la tradition écossaise a commencé comme d'autres au cours du XVIe siècle. Aujourd'hui encore, les Kilts faits à la main sont considérés comme plus précieux car il ne s'agit pas d'un simple vêtement, mais d'un acte d'envergure nationale qui est adoré par les personnes qui le portent, et nous en sommes fiers. Nous essayons d'offrir des produits de qualité supérieure aux prix les plus bas. Nous utilisons les meilleurs matériaux, et nous pouvons concevoir des modèles sur mesure en fonction des préférences de l'acheteur. Nous nous efforçons de fournir à tous nos clients les commandes dans les plus brefs délais, mais en général, cela peut prendre 3 à 4 semaines ; c'est la meilleure qualité de service que vous pouvez trouver sur ce site.

[simarcana]

*+:｡.｡ Dresses for Days ｡.｡:+*

Alika said Aromantic rights : Hat ✦ Top ✦ Skirt ✦ Bag ✦ Glasses

Sunny Boi : Hat ✦ Dress

Alternative Yellow : Dress

Fancy Hat : Hat ✦ Top ✦ Skirt

He stole Aodh's Kilt : Top ✦ Skirt

@evellsims @woosteru @okruee @hotswe @makesims @nell-le @trillyke @sforzcc @ts4eve

[outlanderrepublic]

¿Si logramos salir todos de la cama, preguntaba nuestro #KingOfTodo el viernes 24/2 en Sydney en la apertura del Hublander? Nosotras, a duras penas... El king, a pesar de su carucha de dormido (pero llena de sol), hizo de todo!!! Contestó preguntas de la audiencia, habló de la queen, abrazó bebita, recibió regalitos, se sacó fotos durante tres horas, firmó autógrafos y dibujó una remera genial (con abdomiflanes, cinturón y kilt) para ser subastada con fines benéficos. ¿Qué más se le puede pedir??? Y eso que sólo era el primer día

Miles de tankius a todas las fans que super generosamente sacaron fotitos, filmaron y compartieron en las redes. Créditos a ellas. Nuestra edición

#LoVisteAlKingOfTodoEnAustralia ?

#LoLindoQueEsEsteSeñor

#EsePantalonVerdeYaSeLoVimos

#Hublander

#RememosLaSequia

#Outlander

#OutlanderFanMal

#OutlanderPasion

#OutlanderasInsaciables

#PoneleOutlanderATodo

[clockworkreapers]

*le gasps*

oh my god ...

its finally happening....

IS CYRUSK IN A SKILT :0 ! (cool proßthetic limb btw!)

hes been drawn in skirts or kilt-esque clothing at least three times now hehe, like yeah he does own and wear them, he just requires them to have pockets. ALSO- its not just like oh yeah obviously trolls wouldent have gendered clothing for masc and fem presenting people its also cuz his leg prosthetic. The knee joint on his prosthetic tends to wear down any fabric there after a while on things like jeans or pants they will catch and tear after a while, so if he's not working... why not wear something like a skirt? Hes comfy in them and generally they are just better for his leg if he doesnt want to worry about his clothes wearing down. theres the other one of him in a skirt I did as of recent

[xandezsims]

[KINGDOM] Shauk Reference (I)

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Amazing what a few years can do to a silly fox boy. And it doesn't get better from here.

About Shauk (he/him)

Full Name: Shauken Nyriv, son of Nyriv Briken

AKA: Shauk; Shaunan (diminutive); Shau'nach ("fox")

Alignment: Tarshian, Clan Payne

Assassin fledgling. Knife wielder.

Danger magnet. Chronically injured but cool with it.

Got a crush on a healer, got hurt more to flirt with him.

"Married" that boy as a joke, promptly fell in love with him (oops).

Silly and loud, but clever af.

Pre-War (age 15): Hair | Top | Kilt (TSR) | Shoes | Jewelry Bandages | Tattoo (TSR) | Leggings

Assassin (age 19): Hair (updating) | Top | Kilt (mesh | recolor) | Boots | Knives | Warpaint [1][2]

CC courtesy of the lovely: @aniraklova @woosteru @simmiev2 @feralpoodles

@nell-le @shandir plasma-jane @valhallansim @standardheld

@ice-creamforbreakfast @plazasims @pyxiidis

Poses by @helgatisha & @nell-le

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

In the making for the DIOR’s show

Thank you @dior Maria Grazia Chiuri for the opportunity to share the Le Kilt story through such a magical collabaration.

And forever grateful for the local Scottish craftspeople who continue to work with us make aeroi possible, Glenia kite and a little black watch kilt.

@lekilt

📸@kirstinmcewanphotography

@dior #MariaGraziaChiuri #lekilt #collabaration #SamanthaMcCoach #smallbrand #Scotland

Posted 22nd July 2024

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue April 15, 1968

Jules-François Crahay for Jeanne Lanvin Spring/Summer 1968 Haute Couture Collection. Twiggy wears the "College" ensemble, a long luxurious white organza weskit profusely embroidered with brass nail heads, wooden beads and chalk white sequins to shine against a raw silk shirt and a kilt flame in silk crepe. Lesage embroidery. Sparkling crepe. The shoes are by Charles Jourdan.

Jules-François Crahay pour Jeanne Lanvin Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1968. Twiggy porte l'ensemble "Collège", un long luxueux un weskit d'organza blanc abondamment brodé de têtes de clous en laiton, de perles en bois et de paillettes blanc craie pour briller sur une chemise en soie grège et une flamme de kilt en crêpe de soie. Broderie de Lesage. Crêpe pétillault. Les chaussures sont de Charles Jourdan.

Photo Richard Avedon

vogue archive

[paraisoescoces]

El fuerte viento le envuelve debajo del kilts escoces del hombre levamdole la falda.

[tristesza]

Chinese portraits : Remco Evenepoel & Wout van Aert

Pre-race ritual ?

Wout : Pin my bibs, clean my shoes and my glasses

Remco : Eat and listen to music

Your dream meal after the TT ?

Wout : I saw my road teammates on sunday evening, they’ve eaten good burgers. They told me it was good quality there, so I think burger from the hotel restaurant.

Remco : We didn't have burgers and fries last time, I think it will be this time. Or a good pizza

A song during the warm-up before TT ?

Wout : I always listen to musics from Tomorrowlands, for motivation and energy.

Remco : A little hard though… Hard style and hard techno. There are some artists, like D-Sturb.

The time trial in a kilt or with bagpipe in the earpieces ?

Remco : Neither !

Wout : With a kilt ! I think the picture is funnier.

Your favorite rider during Worlds ? (Excluding belgians)

Remco : He cannot be belgian ? Yeah… Mathieu van der Poel

Wout : Christophe Laporte

Oppenheimer or Barbie ?

Wout : Oppenheimer

Remco : I haven't seen either of them. My wife saw barbie with her little sister, so it will be Oppenheimer.

The first thing you will do when you return to Belgium ?

Remco : Go to sleep quickly, because the day after I have my flight for the training camp.

Wout : Go to the chip chop to eat tasty belgian fries

Biggest celebrity in your phone contacts ?

Wout : My wife !

Remco : Eden Hazard or Thibaut Courtois

Wout’s streak : natural or dyeing ?

Remco : I think it’s natural

Wout : Yeah, I was born like this. It’s a natural thing

[fredericbassoulet-blog]

FB et le #rouge - #kilt #punk dans la plus pure tradition britannique

[singlesablog]

The Look.

“Is There Something I Should Know?” (1983) Duran Duran EMI - Capitol Records (Written by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, Nick Rhodes) Highest U.S. Billboard Chart Position – No. 4

“[It was] completely separate from electronic music or the future…all the fucking Southern New Romantic bollocks. I mean, if we were ever called New Romantics there'd be a fight... 'Am I wearing a kilt? Am I wearing enough eyeliner? Is my shirt frilly enough?' Oh, fuck off!

- Paul McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark on The New Romantics

I love the term “across the pond”, which suggests that England, the mother country for the USA, is only a hop and a skip away, when in truth, the spaces between us are enormous.  The innovations transferring from one continent to the other, especially with respect to music and fashion, have always had a strange and years-away delay that has been ongoing since the very beginning, as if the ideas were always awaiting the right winds, funding, and large, cumbersome, three-masted ships from the Colonial period to bring them over to us.  Part of Modernism is to assume the new world will be changed; part of reality is that the change, as delivered, is much more elusive.

In 1982 the Second British Invasion was brought to the United States in color on MTV, and was ushered in by two very important videos: first and foremost with the complete smash “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League (an electro masterpiece and forever influential) and then by Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf”, their first bonafide, giant US hit.  It wasn’t just MTV that had them on heavy rotation, it was nonstop over the airwaves as well: these two songs nearly swallowed up the 1982-83 season for radio.  In truth there was so much happening with British artists over here that year it is dizzying to consider; sound and image were delivered with enormous speed, and very persuasively.  It was a very rapid musical turnover (and considering my previous thoughts, I know this is ironic; however, a backlog is a backlog.)  The only problem for me that year was that I loathed “Hungry Like The Wolf”; this included the song, and the stupid video, in which I believe Simon Le Bon is in animal drag pursuing a female through the jungle, but I can’t be sure: I refuse to look at it again after being forced to 500 times.  I was also only mildly interested at the time in “Don’t You Want Me”, after being worn down by its’ endless radio play in the US.  However, the invasion had begun.

As a teenager, there was a lot to process in 1982/83: music was now television, and MTV was our god.  I wasn’t staying up late to look at the Brits, I was staying up late waiting for Prince to appear in a haze of multi-colored, neon-infused fog spinning around in high-heeled boots to “Little Red Corvette” (an incredible fusion of sound and image).  There was a lot to look over: Men at Work with “Who Can It Be Now”, A Flock of Seagull’s “I Ran (So Far Away)” which was HUGE in the states, and even Bowie, the originator, coming back from the dead with the future-forward “Ashes to Ashes” being re-aired (1980).  The Vee-jays talked and talked, and we absorbed every scene.  

In 1983 Duran issued their 8th single, “Is There Something I Should Know?” straight to MTV in a video directed by Russell Mulcahy, and it was at this moment that I sat up and took notice.  Technically the band had already conquered the UK and the US, but it took forever for these ideas to sail my way.  Capitol Records was looking for another hit and had the band create this track after their best album, Rio, was already a sensation, and they were starting to work on their third, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (a hilariously late-imperial and overblown, if rather beautiful, mess). For me, watching on TV, this video was my first impression of The New Romantics ever.  Even though DD's style had already moved forward into clothes that were more New wave, I could sense the old style running through the images.  Mulcahy, a true innovator in music videos, had directed many of Duran Duran’s previous clips, as well as for many other artists (notably Buggles “Video Killed The Radio Star”, MTVs first-ever video broadcast, and most representatively Duran’s “Planet Earth”, which, shockingly, I had missed).  His work initiated many of the classic techniques in video: spot lighting, jump cuts, platform stages, empty spaces, slo-motion, breaking glass, fog, bifurcated screens, costumes, nonsense—you name it.

Unbeknownst to me at that time, Capitol tacked this single on to Duran Duran’s first, self-titled debut LP (1981) for the 1983 US re-release, to capitalize on the huge success of Rio’s “Hungry Like the Wolf”.  Until this post, I was always confused at the range of style changes and images that we took in from Duran in ’83, and why I assumed this look was from 1981.  We were all taking in so much British fashion then it was impossible to sort any of it out.  The video, however, was sharp, clean, and brilliant, the clothes still holding a bit of the New Romantic flounce and swagger, but cut leaner, and cleaner; the bandmembers, by now seasoned stars, had clothes, hair and makeup all perfected in an exactitude of knowing postures, and the song was one of their best, and hookiest, with old touches of guitar from their previous work, and with synth-work that looked forward to the next record.  But in 1983, I thought that this was vintage Duran.

Fashion is a curiously hard thing to pin down, especially considering the clothes from London and Birmingham in the late 70s and early 80s.  I would submit that a classic, classic New Romantic look would be the Duran Duran of 1981: lots of makeup, lots of flounce and ruffles, lots of teased up hair (even a ponytail, here or there).  The beginning of the look sprang up alongside of punk (which was anarchic and utilitarian); Bowie and Bolan would be among the New Romantic inspirations.  By the time of the 80s things moved quickly, and Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood’s Sex shop become involved (Westwood’s Pirate collection in 1981—think Adam and the Ants—is a clear expansion of New Romantic fashion); however the Sex shop was also an expression of Punk fashion, and much more avant-garde, so the ideas began to merge and mutate.  By 1983, to be called a New Romantic band became an insult (and to these eyes a downright homophobic assault on foppery and artifice) and many bands distanced themselves from the title, if not outright denied it. Even a band like Spandau Ballet (a true New Romantic sensation from the Blitz club in London) moved away from those associations, and began to wear suits.  With the Duran of 1983 everything was trimmed down but one could see they were unashamed; if their clothes flounced less, they still had the spirit in them.  This was in contrast to the bands that resented the association for whatever reason: ABC, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, and Talk Talk.  The other band closely associated with it, Culture Club, was fronted by Boy George, whose fashion sense ran from Bowie to Punk.  He seemed neither to take offense nor to care what they called him as long as they were looking.

Back in America I was watching all of this late at night on television—too late.  Many of these styles had emerged and were already smoldering in the ashes before we could understand or appropriate them here.  New wave we got, New Romantic we did not.  It did all rather re-flower in the mid to late 80s for us, however.  Looking at the back of the vinyl from the offshoot band Arcadia (with three members of Duran, 1985) I would say their old style had returned.  Around this period there were lots of brooches and asymmetrical haircuts, lots of layers, and lots of unashamed extra everything from nearly every pop artist everywhere. I think the British divisions had finally synthesized into a catch-all aesthetic.  In fact, it was this extra-ness that we now think of in America when we think of 1980s pop music. 

Back cover from Arcadia's So Red The Rose (1985)

But please—don’t call it New Romantic.  It just isn’t cool.

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There were so many styles that emerged in the 80s from the streets, but none better than Bananarama, who were never hard to understand, being appropriated from street culture in England.  Like the Go-Gos, when you saw them, it was pretty clear what they were doing stylistically, and it was never anachronistic. US or UK, you just got it.

Researching this entry, and looking around on the internet, I became interested in the word “naff”, which because it is British has had many permutations, but mostly means awful, ugly, no-good.  I texted my friend British Rachel for the definition:

Me: Define “naff” Her: Deely Boppers and Ra Ra skirts. That was the 80s here.  Nightmare.   Thank god for Bananarama!

On an internet message board from The Guardian, I found a more complete, and complex, definition:

Naff is polari (or palare), the gay urban secret language developed in London to ensure conversational privacy in public when talking about gay sex or insulting straight people. Polari was widespread in London, and particularly in the theatre, from the 1940s-1960s, suffered a decline in the 1970s and 1980s, and has had a revival since the 1990s. It consists of snippets of Italian, Latin, Spanish, Yiddish, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Black-slang and acronyms. Naff is an example of the latter - Normal As Fuck - and means drab, unfashionable, dull. By extension, it is a defining characteristic of straight people, who lack the style and swagger of the urban homosexuals.

- Gerard Forde, London, UK

Well. Excluding Duran Duran, of course.