Yet another Kilted Christmas Party

[MacMullen]

Just returned from our church Christmas party. Our Christmas party is not formal, but it is definitely a dress in your "church clothes" kind of event, with a catered meal, singing Christmas carols, etc. The members of the church had seen pics of me from the early Burn's Supper that I attended in November, but they had not yet seen me kilted in person, so I was pretty nervous about how they would react to seeing their pastor in a kilt.

When I first walked in a number of cameras came out and flash bulbs were popping. The women all loved the kilt, a couple of the men joked about the skirt, but other than that it was very well received. After about 15 minutes of initial questions from various people, it was no big deal. I could just as well have been wearing trousers.

Below are the only kilt pics that I had on my camera from the party. The pics I have are from a reading of Martin Luther's Christmas Book and then singing carols.

One of my members, a 92 year old woman of Scottish ancestry, became very excited when she saw me in the kilt and sang me a Scottish song that her uncle used to sing to her (can't remember the name of the song now). She also told me that she remembers him wearing the kilt all the time when she was a little girl. When he returned home after World War One he told her that the Scottish regiments wore kilts and that the Germans referred to them as the Ladies from Hell, which I already knew, but it was cool to hear it from someone who was only once removed from the Devils in Dresses.

The kilt hose are off-white. Even though they look white in the pic, they're not. The flashes are Black Watch, but I wish that I had worn red flashes instead. The sporran is my day sporran, but I added a chain, since I do not yet have a dress sporran. Oh yeah, there's also an SWK kilt belt hiding under that sweater vest.

Singing Carols:


Reading Luther: