Kilts 'n curling

**Lallans** · 25th February 10, 01:48 PM

News item quoted in Canada's National Post: "Your position in the house (the curling rings) is not always very ladylike and I can imagine something flipping up. That's a wardrobe malfunction that wouldn't be very good at all." -
Canadian curler Cheryl Bernard on why she won't wear a kilt in competition.

**NewEnglander** · 25th February 10, 02:03 PM

I've been watching a lot of curling and I have to say the same thought has crossed my mind. Makes one wonder how play has changed since the invention of the game.

**Tony Miles** · 25th February 10, 02:11 PM

here's a link to a very early pic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cu...,_Scotland.jpg

**Lallans** · 25th February 10, 02:33 PM

In my own life, I can remember when smaller clubs here still made their own stones by filling coffee cans with cement. Now they shop the world for the finest ice pebbling machines.

**auld argonian** · 25th February 10, 04:21 PM

Which is a perfect example of technology screwing up a perfectly simple and enjoyable thing.

See also: aluminum baseball bats, super slick swimming suits, steroids and oversized tennis rackets and drivers.

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**ThistleDown** · 25th February 10, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by NewEnglander

I've been watching a lot of curling and I have to say the same thought has crossed my mind. Makes one wonder how play has changed since the invention of the game.

I quite strongly doubt that curling was ever played by kilted gentlemen. The old rink at Moy is now just a shallow depression, but those who used it from the village were not a kilted folk when it was built in the late 18C, and those from the Hall were I think too gentle for the possibilities. Ah yes, and there is the other issue of imperfections in natural ice and the damage bits of grit can do to one's knees.

**Riverkilt** · 25th February 10, 08:58 PM

Sadly, the Olympics announcer said the rule is black pants - but as evidenced by the Norwegian men's team the rule isn't well enforced.

You can go to Google Images and search for "kilts curling" and find a number of photos of kilted curlers - honoring the game's Scottish origins...despite one errant announcer giving Olympic coverage who attributed curling's origins to Canada.....

**ThistleDown** · 25th February 10, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Sadly, the Olympics announcer said the rule is black pants - but as evidenced by the Norwegian men's team the rule isn't well enforced.

You can go to Google Images and search for "kilts curling" and find a number of photos of kilted curlers - honoring the game's Scottish origins...despite one errant announcer giving Olympic coverage who attributed curling's origins to Canada.....

Just one errant, Ron? I don't know of a single rink proven to be in existence in the Highlands before 1773. Prior to that there is no written or illustrated evidence of kilted curlers (that I know of

). After that date there may well have been a select few. but they were not the common folk and were atypical of the culture.

**Riverkilt** · 26th February 10, 06:52 AM

Just Google stuff:

Curling is thought to have been invented in late medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.

Curling has come a long way from the 16th century when hardy Scots slid odd-shaped rocks called 'loafies' on the frozen lochs and marshes of Scotland.

While it is true that the sport of curling dates back to the 15th century, the modern version (Scottish style) originated in the early 17th century.

The 1st actual evidence about the sport of curling was found in Scotland in the Sixteenth century. In Canada after the fall of Quebec City in 1759, Scottish soldiers had time on their hands and melted down cannon balls to form kettle-shaped irons so they could enjoy their favorite pastime on the frozen St. Charles River.

Most detailed history is at http://www.icing.org/game/history/historya.htm

Like you say, no clue what anyone was wearing to play the game.

Quien Sabe??

**Lallans** · 26th February 10, 07:22 AM

Since the curler quoted seems to have been answering a question, I was wondering if there was possibly a movement going on somewhere to make curling a kilted sport. Canada's being credited with inventing curling was possibly a confusion with the fact that we pushed it out as both an international and as an Olympic sport. Nationally we are only pushy about two things- hockey and curling. And curling is arguably the true people's sport here.