Gentlemen - prepare to kilt up monday!

[Burly Brute]

Oh, and in regards to tomorrow, I think Mel sums it up best! haha


"Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!”

[Cowher]

I am starting a new job today so no kilt
But the second I get home I'm strapping that thing on.

[GMan]

Nothing out of the ordinary for me. So I am still Kilted with pride!

[butch]

Just got home from work. Since I am an electrician, I have to wear jeans all day. Going to put a kilt on right now. Now the problem is which one, the Black Stewart, no maybe the Buchanan, or the Dress Stewart, no how about the Thomson Grey, choices so many choices.....

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Kilted at work, but only 6 other people in the office today, as it is a provincial holiday in BC, Canada.

[Fitzy]

Two new kilts arrived here last week. One for me and a kilt skirt for the girlfriend - so this will make for a special first wearing.

A Keltoi box pleat for me, and A Newsome box pleat for her. Both in Morgan (MacKay Blue ancient).

Paul

[Dale Seago]

Two new kilts arrived here last week. One for me and a kilt skirt for the girlfriend - so this will make for a special first wearing.

A Keltoi box pleat for me, and A Newsome box pleat for her. Both in Morgan (MacKay Blue ancient).

Very nice-looking!! I may have to get a kilt in that sett one of these days; I had a great-granny Morgan on my Dad's side. . .

[OC Richard]

Well my kilt-wearing is done for the day.

I piped for a funeral. It was humid and hot and my kilt, hose, and jacket were dripping wet by the end. Boy it was nice to get those ten pounds of wet wool off and hop in a cool shower!!

About this history stuff, it's just one of those things: some people are really interested, and for them no minutia is insignificant; others have no interest in anything that happened before they were old enough to remember things.

I'm somewhere in the middle. There are vast tracts of history that I know nothing about. But I've read piles of books on the ACW and know that one topic well. I've visited quite a few of the battlefields. Why? It just interested me, and my family was involved in it.

My ignorance of British history is nearly complete. But my father knew all the English kings and queens, the various court intrigues, all about the ECW, and so forth. Could have taught a college course in English history without the need to refer to notes... it was all clear in his mind, all the people and dates and events, and he a telecommunications engineer, of all things.

So it doesn't surprise me that there are Americans who know more about Scottish history than most Scots, just as there are Scots who know more about American history than most Americans.

[Hocfutue]

Wore my Black Watch today at work. Several people asked for the historical significance, as I'm wont to wear various uniforms, kit, and other bits related to that particular date in history.

After explaining the Act of Proscription, one co-worker said "No, I didn't mean the kilt. I was surprised to see you in a white shirt, not your usually Hawaiian ones."

Changed when I got home, though. Felt kinda weird to be cooking tacos in a kilt.

[OC Richard]

I didn't mean the kilt. I was surprised to see you in a white shirt, not your usual Hawaiian ones

That's funny!

But... are kilts and aloha shirts mutually exclusive? I wore both once while piping at a funeral... when in Rome, as they say.