Salutations all around

[DyerStraits]

Hi.

My name is Jack, I live in the PNW of the USA, and I've recently started kilt shopping to add to my current collection of [goose egg]0 kilts. A good friend has invited (transl: "shanghaied") me to officiate at his wedding, and it is to be a kilts-required affair.

Accordingly, I've started inquiring around and believe that my first enabler will be Rocky at USA, who has been both gracious and informative thus far. As a "jump in with both feet and my face" kind of guy, I'm scheming for a formal set-up for the wedding, to be followed at some point by a kilt in U.S. Army tartan with a day sporran.

All pointers on procurement, set-up, and wear are explicitly welcomed, of course.

Basics about me: early 50s and not too all-fired grown up yet; married (3rd time = charm, we do hope); three kids betwixt; like to ride a motorcycle once in a while and there will be pants for that always. Fishing, on the other hand...

Oh, and not even the weest dram o' Scots blood in me, unless you count the dilution caused by Uigeadail. With all due respect to the real Highland traditions, my first kilt will be rendered in Lewis of Wales tartan.

Startlingly enough, however, my Jewish wife has a family tartan. We looked it up. It's... not great. Looks like Christmas wrapping paper. Think I'll stick with LoW.

That's enough of my rattling on. Thanks for having me. I'll sneak back under my rock and peer out until I've something worthwhile to contribute.

Cheers,

Jack

A warm welcome, Jack! And please, have no geneological or ethnological concerns about being "eligible" to wear the kilt because, as I have repeatedly mentioned elsewhere, the Kilt is THE Multicultual Evolution of the Primordial Loincloth of All Humanity. The Welsh are a very special people, so by all means wear a Welsh Cilt for the wedding if you like, or otherwise honor your (undoubtedly beautiful) wife with a Jewish Tartan Kilt (it's a rather tough row to hoe, but there are few better, or more literarily, beautiful) ways to appreciate the Celtic-Jewish connection than James Joyce's "Ulysses" and its quintessential anti-hero (and quintessential Transplanted Jew), Steven Bloom.