The modern kilt is about as traditional as a footballer's tie knot, they are awful things only worn by royalty and blokes at weddings pretending to be out of Braveheart. Tragic things, it has to be said. I'd have more respect for someone getting married dressed as a scotch egg, or a bottle of Irn Bru. Whilst chewing on a Highland Toffee.
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Anyone got a kilt?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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TandemJeremy - Member
It would seem that scots are more relaxed about the propriety of non scots wearing the kilt than they used to be. When I was a kid here in the 70s it would have been seen as disrespectful for a non scot to wear oneI don't remember that being an issue. It was more do you have the right to wear that specific tartan?
GlitterGary - Member
The modern kilt is about as traditional as a footballer's tie knot...OK that style is approx only 200 years old, but enough Scots died wearing it while helping to make the British Empire for it to have a right to be accepted as a national dress. BTW, you man enough to say that to a member of a Highland regiment?
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Yes, and I often do! Don't get me wrong, I've got nowt against a soldier wearing his uniform, but I wouldn't go around wearing my dad's old stable belt from his regiment, or his beret, just because it's traditional.
I just see kilts as a bit crass. Unlike Highland Toffee.
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Epicyclo - Certainly felt like that to me and is a part of why I have never worn a kilt.
As for national dress - of course it is and not only in that victorian style. Many examples of modern scots national dress in this thread.
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Never thought I'd see Ricky Gervais doing the Gay Gordons Druidh....
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Real men wear kilts
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GaryGlitter does have a point!
I've got the full set now, mostly bought for me one bit at a time for presents etc.
The whole notion of family\clan tartans is quite new and pretty false. Scots would go to the local mill and generally buy what was cheapest or what they liked the look of. Any idea of farmers all out working wearing the same tartan is false (unles they got a bulk discount
)It was the Landed Gentry and estates that came up with the Family name\Clan tartans and it kind of stuck.
Kilts are great things for all sorts of occasions. Women love em too!
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GaryGlitter does have a point!
I've got the full set now, mostly bought for me one bit at a time for presents etc.
The whole notion of family\clan tartans is quite new and pretty false. Scots would go to the local mill and generally buy what was cheapest or what they liked the look of. Any idea of farmers all out working wearing the same tartan is false (unles they got a bulk discount )
It was the Landed Gentry and estates that came up with the Family name\Clan tartans and it kind of stuck.
Kilts are great things for all sorts of occasions. Women love em too!
So, to sum up, a kilt is basically just a comfy man-skirt that anyone can wear, and "clan tartan" is strictly the domain of (wannabe) posh nobbers? Cool, got it now.Posted 6 months ago #
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