21st Century Kilts and Iona Crawford combined forces to provide a splendid fashion show at The City Art Centre last night.

This was preceded by a little refreshment and a tour of the fashion photography exhibition that's on there.  The exhibition contains photographs from Condé Nast publications from the earliest years of the 20th century to recent times.  The tour was led by an old theatre acquaintance of mine and focused on pointing to how the photos sat within the social and cultural landscape of their time.  Not just pretty pictures according to Ernie and everything he said rang true, but is it not a bit of an affectation to talk of bijouterie when you mean jewelery, even in the context of haute couture?

After another break for refreshment the catwalk show was launched.  The women's wear was attractive but it was the glorious range of kilted outfits that I was there to see and that caused passing pedestrians to take time out to peer through the gallery's large windows.

Once again I had only a cameraphone with me so didn't bother trying to take pictures.  Check out the websites for a peek at the goods that were on display. 

Introducing the show Howie Nicholsby the kilt man said his models weren't models but ordinary guys since that's what his stock would fit.  I got into conversation with one of them afterwards when we were encouraged to finish off the ample stock of refreshments.  He turned out to be the drum major of the Los Angeles Scots pipe band here to take part in the world pipe band championships in Glasgow.  A little less than ordinary I'd say.