Hi chaps,
Always liked the look of kilts, the epitomy of masculinity, and the idea sort of floated around in the back of my mind. I've always been a bit wary of claiming heritage as I am English but have a couple of scots, an irish and a welsh in my recent family history. My great grandad was Russian so I'm a total mongrel. Anyway last year I was at clothes show live NEC, (it's a fashion show + market based on a Uk tv show), treating my wife for Christmas, and saw the 21st century kilt stand. Very curious and bored with looking at the latest exfoliator I wandered over and started chatting to one of the guys there. Howie. Surrounded by signs saying no smoking and no food or drink, we sparked up and cracked a cold one while he picked a kilt off the rack for me to try.
Sales technique went like this,'I don't want you to buy one I'm just trying to raise awareness. Have another beer. ' An hour later I'd ordered a black barathea and was still drinking in the kilt he'd lent me. Him and his mate were laughing about the fact they were going out with all the girl models that night and how much weight they'd need in their sporran. The idea of all the models and the attention we got while there sold me on how good we looked.
Now got 3 the black, a pinstripe and a marine cammo. My wife insisted I had them. I'm lucky too Sorry to have gone on.
Cheers Rhino