Burns Night without Kilts

[BEEDEE]

The article says it all!

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/h...upper.20790009

[Carlo]

The "Burns in the Buff" supper, with almost 100 guests and a kilted piper,...

At least one Kilt

[Phil]

Having attended many Burns suppers I don't actually remember anyone wearing kilts at any of them. That is not to say that someone should not do so, just that it was not a particular feature of the occasion. Please remember that kilt-wearing was not, until fairly recently, particularly common throughout Scotland and especially so in areas such as the west of Scotland where Burns lived. So it is not really expected that attendees at Burns suppers be kilted. Quite the opposite actually.

[Peter Crowe]

Having attended many Burns suppers I don't actually remember anyone wearing kilts at any of them. That is not to say that someone should not do so, just that it was not a particular feature of the occasion. Please remember that kilt-wearing was not, until fairly recently, particularly common throughout Scotland and especially so in areas such as the west of Scotland where Burns lived. So it is not really expected that attendees at Burns suppers be kilted. Quite the opposite actually.

Kyleism

Have to agree Phil, It is only in the last 15-20 years that Kilts have been a feature of Burns Suppers in my experience. The Bard himself never wore Highland Dress, but dressed in the clothes appropriate to what he was, a Lowland Scots Tenant Farmer. He is often described as wearing buckskin breeches and (riding) boots. He may have worn a Blue Bonnet and a shepherd's shoulder plaid 'on the hill', but while authentically Scots his manner of dress was not 'Highland'.

[Carlo]

He is often described as wearing buckskin breeches

And I thought he was Scottish not Bavarian or Austrian

[Peter Crowe]

And I thought he was Scottish not Bavarian or Austrian

Good One Carlo Riding breeches with buckskin to protect the thighs. Lederhosen nicht

[creagdhubh]

Kyleism

Have to agree Phil, It is only in the last 15-20 years that Kilts have been a feature of Burns Suppers in my experience. The Bard himself never wore Highland Dress, but dressed in the clothes appropriate to what he was, a Lowland Scots Tenant Farmer. He is often described as wearing buckskin breeches and (riding) boots. He may have worn a Blue Bonnet and a shepherd's shoulder plaid 'on the hill', but while authentically Scots his manner of dress was not 'Highland'.

Precisely, Peter.

[JohntheBiker]

At least one Kilt

Probably not a discussion about what is worn under the kilt....

[FatherWilliam57]

They also avoid the dreaded subject of white kilt hose and whether to use traditional garter ties or elastic. I do have to wonder if they carry sgian dubhs...and where...

[Chas]

I was 16, when I attended my first Burns Supper, at the Officer's Mess of the 16^th Signal Regiment at Bradbury Barracks in Krefeld, West Germany as it was then.

I wore a Nova Scotia tartan tie - the only piece of tartan in the whole place. The piper was a Gurkha and wore uniform trousers.