My mother is a McNab (well, MacNab, back before the English supposedly booted us out for being Catholic), and years ago, she made us hostess skirts to wear to a party that she and my dad were hosting. I was about 7 when I wore mine. It's not technically a kilt, but hey, us girls gotta represent too, eh?

I've been dating a great guy (who's also on XMTS), and his interest in tartans and kilts has renewed my Scottish pride, so I asked Mom to dig out the old hostess skirts, just so we could have a look at them. Turns out the elastic in my old skirt has dried out to the point where I can actually get the skirt over my hips (that's either really impressive, or really depressing because it means I was a bigger kid than I thought!). Now it's more of a pencil skirt than a hostess skirt, of course. I wore it tonight to my firm Christmas party. It's a lovely red and green combo, which makes for a great Christmastime look. Here's a shot that I took after I got home:


Just wanted to share some MacNab pride with y'all!