non-tartan kilts on the field.

[Jock Scot]

Hummm, on balance I think as people are competing in a Highland Games and at specifically Highland Games type events then I think tartan kilts really ought to be the way to go. If nothing else and at a guess, I suspect the spectators might expect it.

[Chas]

An interesting question.

If a style (or construction) of a kilt for heavy gamers were to evolve I would not object to it.

The man who digs ditches and the man who sells insurance both wear different clothes to do their own job. Although, I don't know, I would expect that the heavy athlete would have different requirements from a kilt than the man who makes the opening speech of welcome.

In the UK, the shorts worn by soccer players are different from those worn by rugby players. Soccer shorts have no pockets. Rugby shorts do, because the player needs to keep to stop his hands getting too cold to grab the ball. A simple evolution to fulfil a need.

Likewise, I would not object to 'team colours', for want of a term. I have been to some games where it was possible to lean forward and whisper in a thrower's ear as he takes his run-up. I have also been to some where a good pair of binoculars was required.

Are Tee shirts or polo shirts enough to identify the athlete? Again, I don't know, but I have a feeling not.

If men wear a kilt in a particular tartan to identify them as being part of a clan, why should heavy athletes not be able to do the same?

Regards

Chas

[TheOfficialBren]

Hummm, on balance I think as people are competing in a Highland Games and at specifically Highland Games type events then I think tartan kilts really ought to be the way to go. If nothing else and at a guess, I suspect the spectators might expect it.

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Traditional tartan (or tweed, I suppose but that might confused the spectators in many ways [to riff off of Tobus' post about those phoney Irish kilts]).

[tundramanq]

Even as a non competing spectator, I lean heavily toward wearing tartan if in the kilt. It's a gala event and helps set the "normal" for the casual spectators as to what is Scottish - on or off the field. Will be in my "Isle of Skye" kilt this weekend whether I make it to the Rio Grande Games or not.