Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**Mr. MacDougall** · 27th February 08, 05:17 AM

Do try on things the vendors are displaying at the Highland Games. Don't let your mother photograph you with an odd expression on your face.

**Amoskeag** · 27th February 08, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by Mr. MacDougall

Do try on things the vendors are displaying at the Highland Games. Don't let your mother photograph you with an odd expression on your face.

Wow that's pretty sharp, did you buy it? I'd like one but I'm afraid I'd look like stuffed sausage in it. (a serious "DON'T")

Bob

**herminator** · 27th February 08, 05:55 AM

Is that a real MacMedic?

Cool!

**sharpdressedscot** · 27th February 08, 06:34 AM

It looks like the table cloth in my dining room, I'm gonna check if there's a patch missing. Thief!!

**McClef** · 27th February 08, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by herminator

Is that a real MacMedic?

Cool!

Looks like one to me!

I take it it was the jacket you were trying on - just as well you are not supposed to fasten all those buttons!

**McMurdo** · 27th February 08, 07:00 AM

Yes it is a MacMedic Tartan here is the link to his review of same:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=32747

I've got another Don't, and Do for you, don't go calling a Tartan that means that much a tablecloth. Do your homework first.

**Ayin McFye** · 27th February 08, 08:22 AM

I saw that dublet at the games also. I definitely liked it. There was a green one there as well if I remember correctly. I had already spent most of my money on a new kilt and sporran (without tassels)

so I didn't have enough left to buy it.

Did you end up purchasing it, or were you just trying it on?

**Chef** · 27th February 08, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Yes it is a MacMedic Tartan here is the link to his review of same:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=32747

I've got another Don't, and Do for you, don't go calling a Tartan that means that much a tablecloth. Do your homework first.

Well said.

**Nick the DSM** · 27th February 08, 05:54 PM

ya sure its not a mactablecloth?

**macsim** · 27th February 08, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

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

When folks comment on my cell phone I just say, "It's a modern day dirk actually - instead of pulling a blade I call in an air strike."