Wearing the kilt in Scotland

[CeilidhDoc]

I appreciate the honesty! No need to ever censor your replies for fear of offending me. If I asked the question I want the truth in reply. Resonable gentleman have been known to disagree with one another from time to time , but nothing a wee dram won't take care of here.

In my case, the "Why?" would often be answered with a nod of respect to my ancestors, pride in my heritage, preference for the comfort of the garment over pants/trousers, and in all honesty a vague attempt to reclaim a part of my family's cultural lineage lost many generations ago as a part of the Scottish diaspora. I would suspect that for many of Scottish heritage living outside Scotland who choose to wear the kilt, something similar draws them to wear it as well.

It is interesting to me though that if you could not figure the event a tourist in a kilt was off to then that computes to getting it wrong. My approach lately has been to try and incorporate the kilt more and more frequently into my wardrobe specifically when I don't have an event to go to, haha. I suppose I will be wrong more and more often then, which would follow the general pattern of ageing on some levels, haha... although I suspect the latter perception really just comes from the wisdom to know when I am wrong with increasing accuracy as time goes by.

Slàinte!