Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**Larry124** · 26th February 08, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Tell you what Zardoz,
I sure thought about it. But was in sales for 27 years and have been a therapist for 15 and the way I read him was that he was totally uninterested in outside input...he had a type A way of being in the world and a don't mess with me presence. ... He seemed to be with a group, but separated from it somehow. He was always yacking into that thing in his ear...
...It just didn't seem wise to tell this man anything...just me...maybe someone did later and he tipped them a $20...who knows.
But my gut read was all wrong so I didn't intrude into his basted world.
Ron

Ron,
I spent three decades in Human Services and even from a picture alone that is the way that I’d also “read” that gentleman.
Of course he might need to be in constant contact with a medical situation in his family or in a professional role.
But he’s more likely an over-controlling micromanager unable to delegate.
With a self-image inseparable from the appearance of industriousness and importance
Wearing the kilt with little enjoyment and/or false pride because it’s the “expected” dress or to establish “membership” in or even “ownership” of the event.

But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic other than to say DON’T wear the kilt (or attend a leisure event) as a half-interested afterthought.

**CameronTaylor** · 26th February 08, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Chef

He should wear pants.

The girls in the bar don't share your opinion.

His coworker wears a leather kilt he made himself and it looks preety darned good.

CT - besides you don't see it unless you look at it

**Frank McGrath** · 26th February 08, 02:07 PM

I hate the intrusion of cell Phones. I only carry mine when I am at work.

**Amoskeag** · 26th February 08, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Larry124

Ron,
I spent three decades in Human Services and even from a picture alone that is the way that I’d also “read” that gentleman.
Of course he might need to be in constant contact with a medical situation in his family or in a professional role.
But he’s more likely an over-controlling micromanager unable to delegate.
With a self-image inseparable from the appearance of industriousness and importance
Wearing the kilt with little enjoyment and/or false pride because it’s the “expected” dress or to establish “membership” in or even “ownership” of the event.

But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic other than to say DON’T wear the kilt (or attend a leisure event) as a half-interested afterthought.

I don't know.

It seems a lot to surmise from a single picture. He might just be a dweeb; and that's not a bad thing.
Bob

**Rex_Tremende** · 26th February 08, 04:20 PM

But he’s more likely...
With a self-image...
Wearing the kilt...
But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic...

He might just be....

And he might just be a guest at XMTS, where he will no doubt learn how to wear a kilt a little more deliberately, but if he's reading this, he will certainly learn a lot about us.

I have been trying lately to make it my policy not to post to this thread, but I'm having trouble letting this one pass. OK, so the "DON'TS" in this Hall of Shame can be instructive, but how about if we leave it at that, and try to hold back on the pile-ons, hm?

Regards,
Rex, your friendly spoilsport.

**McMurdo** · 26th February 08, 04:36 PM

Here here Rex, the name of the thread is Kilt Do's and Dont's, with that in mind how about a few Do's? I'll start Do wear your kilt to a RSCDS Ball and have fun with your friends:

**Larry124** · 26th February 08, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

And he might just be a guest at XMTS, where he will no doubt learn how to wear a kilt a little more deliberately, but if he's reading this, he will certainly learn a lot about us.

I have been trying lately to make it my policy not to post to this thread, but I'm having trouble letting this one pass. OK, so the "DON'TS" in this Hall of Shame can be instructive, but how about if we leave it at that, and try to hold back on the pile-ons, hm?

Regards,
Rex, your friendly spoilsport.

Not a spoilsport.
I can only say…

Yes I did go somewhat over the top.

Not about kilts at all. Rather about cell phones in public, which is off topic.

May I have a chill pill please? (With a wee dram thank you.)

int:

**BruceK** · 26th February 08, 07:09 PM

Regarding the cell phone issue while my Bluetooth earpiece worked I used it constantly. With it I never had to rummage around in my sporran looking for my phone when I got a call. I did have one guy in Vermont comment to me on the anachronism of wearing the headset and a kilt.

That reminds me - I need to get a replacement Bluetooth...

**Iain Robb** · 27th February 08, 04:40 AM

I don't know why a Bluetooth headset would be anachronistic with a kilt. Harald Bluetooth was something like Malcolm III of Scotland's great-great-grandfather-in-law.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 27th February 08, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by BruceK

Regarding the cell phone issue while my Bluetooth earpiece worked I used it constantly. With it I never had to rummage around in my sporran looking for my phone when I got a call. I did have one guy in Vermont comment to me on the anachronism of wearing the headset and a kilt.

That reminds me - I need to get a replacement Bluetooth...

I used to carry my cell phone occassionally clipped to my belt (got a smaller one now, so it almost always stays in my sporran), and a few times people made a similar comment on how it seemed "anachronistic" (they didn't use that word, but that's what they meant) to see a cell phone with a kilt.

Keep in mind, I wasn't wearing a feilidh-mhor or anything. It was a modern kilt, and a modern phone. How was that any more anachronisitc than the style of shoes I was wearing? Or my shirt?

I think this shows that to many people out there the kilt viewed as some kind of historic costume, rather than a modern form of dress (albeit one steeped in tradition). The cell phone was just didn't fit in with that image.

M