Originally Posted by
SMcKinlay
As a new kilt wearer, I am curious about the kilt pin. Is it pretty universally worn? Is being without one a glaring omission, particularly in a formal setting?
Scott
I very rarely wear one, mainly because I don't like the idea of punching holes in a perfectly good (and expensive) kilt.
Kilt pins have always been merely optional.
In the Army, of the five old kilted Scottish Highland regiments, only The Gordon Highlanders wore them.
In The Highlanders of Scotland, a collection of portraits painted in the 1860s, that portion of the kilt is visible on 34 of the subjects, and of the 34 only six are wearing kilt pins. (This is especially ironic because these portraits are often accused of depicting Highland Dress more elaborately than it actually was.)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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