First USA Kilt

[Graham]

This is a poor photo, took it with my phone, but it's my eldest son Daniel in his new USA kilt, he loves wearing it everywhere, he has no hesitation or embarrassment - nothing like I, and many of us here, went through!

[Freelander Sporrano]

looks just Great Graham. Nice to see the other half of the family.

Has He adopted your old Sporran

[Graham]

Ah, the Sporran King speaks!

You're perfectly correct, Daniel is wearing my sporran. I had an identical one made for him tho'.
I did offer to buy him one of yours but he just liked a simple plain one.

As other fathers have expressed here - it's a proud moment to see a son really enjoy wearing the kilt.

Right now he's on a 7 day hike in the Tassie highlands, I believe he took his kilt.

[Will]

...You're perfectly correct, Daniel is wearing my sporran....

Hope this question doesn't shock!
Does he ever go without a sporran?

I know some think its a sin against the kilt to go without a sporran. Sometimes, I just don't feel like wearing it. But I have to admit, it helps hold down the kilt in the breeze.

But that is a nice picture. I am glad that he doesn't have the problems some of us "youth-challenged" types do/did!

[Raphael]

...You're perfectly correct, Daniel is wearing my sporran....

Hope this question doesn't shock!
Does he ever go without a sporran?

I know some think its a sin against the kilt to go without a sporran. Sometimes, I just don't feel like wearing it. But I have to admit, it helps hold down the kilt in the breeze.

But that is a nice picture. I am glad that he doesn't have the problems some of us "youth-challenged" types do/did!

If Don Hamish goes without a sporran sometimes, you should not worry about going out without one.

btw, Graham, your son looks great in his new kilt.

[GMan]

Graham,

Daniel looks great!!

My hat is off to him for being so confident so quickly about being kilted, maybe he saw all the good comments his "old man" got so it made it easier for him.

Let's see two more sons to get kilted, huh? Wouldn't that be a great sight Graham and his kilted three sons

[Casey]

Great to see the kilting tradition being passed on to the next generation.

Casey

[Hamish]

Graham,

Congratulations to Daniel, and to his father for the encouragement he has obviously given (or the example he has set).

Although I do not have family, I do try to set a good example - by looking my kilted best every time I leave the house!

I know some think its a sin against the kilt to go without a sporran. Sometimes, I just don't feel like wearing it. But I have to admit, it helps hold down the kilt in the breeze.

Will,

If you don't feel like wearing the sporran, then don't! There are no rules stating that you should. To feel obliged to wear it indicates, in a way, that you are wearing a costume, not an everyday garment.

As Raphael so rightly points out: I don't wear any of my sporrans unless 1) I am attending an event in full rig (in which case I am, in fact, wearing a costume!), 2) I am going jacket-less and therefore have no pockets in which to keep essentials. In the photo I posted recently of me on duty with The National Trust, I am wearing my blue kilt suit with a sporran, but more often than not I do not wear a sporran with those suits. In everyday situations, sporrans are optional accessories.

I never remember putting on a sporran just for the purpose of 'telling' the world at large than I am wearing a kilt. To do so, to me, seems a nonsense!

[Blu (Ontario)]

Nice thing is... When he's ready to take a wife, the kilt factor will already be worked into the equation.There'll be none of the retrofitting nonsense some of us have had to go though.

[Blu (Ontario)]

... If you don't feel like wearing the sporran, then don't! There are no rules stating that you should. To feel obliged to wear it indicates, in a way, that you are wearing a costume, not an everyday garment.... I never remember putting on a sporran just for the purpose of 'telling' the world at large than I am wearing a kilt. To do so, to me, seems a nonsense!

My thoughts exactly. I too only bother with a sporran about 1/4 of the time and follow the same general reasoning. Well said, Hamish.