Quote Originally Posted by JonathanB View Post
Any comments on Utilikilts. Their website is full of yo-dude-ery which isn’t me, but the kilts look interesting.
I love that word, 'yo-dude-ery'! Never seen it before but I know what you mean!

The Utilikilt phenomenon has been pretty amazing here on the West Coast, its home.

I've been involved with pipe bands and Highland Games and Scottish dancing and kiltwearing since the 70s. Of course it's always been traditional kilts, the only sort that existed.

Then a number of years ago, at one of our Games, there was a huge Utilikilt booth. Nobody had ever heard of them. Nobody here had ever seen anything like it, a canvas kilt with snaps and pockets and all. That booth was swamped and they pretty much sold everything they had. It seemed the Utilikilts met a need we didn't know we had!

Utilikilts are fairly mainstream here. I work at Disneyland and I see men wearing them all the time. (Most often they're from the Pacific Northwest, Utilikilt's home.)

Not only do men with no Scottish/Celtic connexion wear them regularly as part of their ordinary daily dress, but they have also taken the local Scottish community by storm, so that at our Highland Games I would say that Utilikilts outnumber traditional kilts.

I took the plunge once! I'd often admired the camouflage Utilikilts, especially the RealTree ones (it's a West Virginia thang) and when one in my size came up cheaply on Ebay I bought it. It came in the mail, I put it on, looked in the mirror, took it back off, and sold it on Ebay a few days later. They look great on other people but they're just not for me.

So perhaps they are slowly spreading in the UK?