Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**Highland Logan** · 15th September 08, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

Do wear a dragon mask in your kilt.

Looks like a Jim Hensen creation... lol

Frank

**ThistleDown** · 15th September 08, 09:43 AM

GB's last one is from Gung Haggis Fat Choy. If you want to know what that's all about, go to http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/.

**Mr. MacDougall** · 15th September 08, 03:05 PM

Do color-coordinate.

**thoth51** · 15th September 08, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Colin

That's Todd Wong (a member here). Todd organizes an event called Gung Haggis Fat Choy which combines Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns night. The reviews are always outstanding and I believe he now holds the event in Seattle as well. I hear the haggis won ton is pretty good.

The dragon head is a photo op and promotion for the event. www.gunhaggisfatchoy.com

Raphael is on their dragon boat team.

A minor correction: that's a lion head, not dragon.

**ThistleDown** · 15th September 08, 04:19 PM

That's actually piper Joe MacDonald under the lion mask. Todd(ish) McWong, the originator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, and a member of XMTS, is a legend-in-his-own-time in this part of North America. He is the epitome of the cross-culturism of which we are so enormously proud. Glint, glint!

**george7** · 15th September 08, 04:23 PM

That sounds like a great event. I was thumbing through the Internets and noticed that in an image search for kilts... I instantly thought "kilt do!"

**ThistleDown** · 15th September 08, 04:35 PM

It is! Vancouver's multi-culture answer to New York's Tartan Week. I'll see if I can find my photos of the sometimes outlandish attire, but if I can, please don't misunderstand: these are of kilted folk wearing costume, not folk wearing the kilt as costume.

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**Mark Keeney** · 15th September 08, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Highland Logan

Well, lets start a list:
1. Ball cap with formal evening dress
2. Kilt pin as a lapel pin on formal evening dress
3. Black sneakers with formal evening dress
4. Formal evening dress during a un-formal day event
5. Belt and waistcoat

Any more?

Frank

Ouch! I will think twice before I post any more pictures of me here this is rough.

BTW
1. Ball cap = outdoor wear and he is outdoors.
2. I like it. Hopefully he has a different one on the kilt.
3. Looks like dress shoes to me.
4. Yes, I agree here, but he does look better than most others in picture. It may even be all he has to wear with a kilt.
5. You can find belts and waistcoat on kilt shop websites.

**Highland Logan** · 15th September 08, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Keeney

Ouch! I will think twice before I post any more pictures of me here this is rough.

BTW
1. Ball cap = outdoor wear and he is outdoors.
2. I like it. Hopefully he has a different one on the kilt.
3. Looks like dress shoes to me.
4. Yes, I agree here, but he does look better than most others in picture. It may even be all he has to wear with a kilt.
5. You can find belts and waistcoat on kilt shop websites.

1. Headdress is generaly not worn with evening dress, and if it was it would be something suitable to your dress.
2. Other than a boutonniere or metals, I can't say that I've seen a evening jacket with "flare"
3. Could be... they seem much to "high" to be anything other than sneakers to me.. but I stand to be corrected.
4. I can't agree with your logic here, and as for all he has.. what no golf shirts?
5. You can also find books on these website on how to dress properly. Ignorance can't always be an excuse.

Frank

**ThistleDown** · 18th September 08, 10:26 AM

Maybe we shouldn't be paying too much attention to the accuracy of what the laddie is wearing, but rather with his purpose in wearing it in the first place. The woman with her back to us is wearing a costume; perhaps he thinks he is, too (perhaps he even borrowed it, incomplete, for the occasion). In fact, the only one in the photo who is not wearing a costume is the woman in the centre. It's the "costume" part we are objecting to, isn't it?