Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[TenorClef]

Do native Scots on the whole see the kilt as dated I wonder? Last year whilst holidaying in Turkey I got a uber cool fez hat and wandered about quite happily wearing it with my family in tow around Marmaris....was I taken for a dumb tourist....oh for sure

[Lodrorigdzin]

Do native Scots on the whole see the kilt as dated I wonder? Last year whilst holidaying in Turkey I got a uber cool fez hat and wandered about quite happily wearing it with my family in tow around Marmaris....was I taken for a dumb tourist....oh for sure

not only that, the fez has certain historical connotations that are not too pleasant to a lot of people. it was banned by ataturk as a symbol of religious oppression.

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/fez_1/

and suddenly it dawned on me that the dutch parallel is wearing clogs! you see them all over in tourist areas, not too well made, but tourists buy them. i think they display them, and seldom wear them.

i own a pair, because sometimes i'm out in the forest for the woodcarving and they're great safety shoes. they're different from the tourist style though, "trippen" that are only made by an old guy up north, van der meulen from eenrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEEV1cKBdQ

I never wear my clogs as daily footwear, but I'll bring them along for work in the garden or in the forest. I'll change into them when it gets boggy.

for a while when I was at secondary school it was the rage to wear clogs into class. and do a psychedelic paint job on them.

the berkemann clogs are daily informal footwear in rural communities and around farms.

[The Wizard of BC]

Well Jock, to tell the truth I only know that two of the Gentlemen are from Glasgow three from the area, but not the city, of Edinburgh.
Three of the gentlemen had very thick accents and although they said where they were from I did not recognize that names. I suspect it was further north somewhere as they mentioned that they hire their outfits out of a local shop in Inverness.

[Jock Scot]

Well Jock, to tell the truth I only know that two of the Gentlemen are from Glasgow three from the area, but not the city, of Edinburgh.
Three of the gentlemen had very thick accents and although they said where they were from I did not recognize that names. I suspect it was further north somewhere as they mentioned that they hire their outfits out of a local shop in Inverness.

Why is it I am not surprised? I could almost have bet my fishing rod on your answer! It was a dead cert!

Three words were the dead give away. "Glasgow", "Edinburgh" and "Hire".

[Calgacus]

Do native Scots on the whole see the kilt as dated I wonder?

No, I would not say that is the case.

[TenorClef]

No, I would not say that is the case.

Ok....on one or two rare occasions here in North Yorkshire, I've seen some student walking down the high street with a top hat, that looked eccentric. You simply don't see it, it looks antiquated. I'd understand if it were a wedding or that top drawer horse event but other than that its not that common. A piper came to town and he had the full kilt outfit. No one blinked, no one thought it was odd, he got lots of photos because he was odd? Eccentric? I don't think so. Not sure a bloke wandering around the shops in my area would be seen the same way as that piper. Horses for Courses perhaps???

[Calgacus]

Ok....on one or two rare occasions here in North Yorkshire, I've seen some student walking down the high street with a top hat, that looked eccentric. You simply don't see it, it looks antiquated. I'd understand if it were a wedding or that top drawer horse event but other than that its not that common. A piper came to town and he had the full kilt outfit. No one blinked, no one thought it was odd, he got lots of photos because he was odd? Eccentric? I don't think so. Not sure a bloke wandering around the shops in my area would be seen the same way as that piper. Horses for Courses perhaps???

Wearing a top hat around here would also be seen as eccentric and/or antiquated. Wandering around here dressed as a piper, you'd be seen as, well, most likely a piper. Wandering around here dressed like JohntheBiker in the photo above would probably catch folks' eyes, but not raise an eyebrow. Would it be seen as old fashioned, outdated, anachronistic? Absolutely not.

[Nathan]

Ok....on one or two rare occasions here in North Yorkshire, I've seen some student walking down the high street with a top hat, that looked eccentric. You simply don't see it, it looks antiquated. I'd understand if it were a wedding or that top drawer horse event but other than that its not that common. A piper came to town and he had the full kilt outfit. No one blinked, no one thought it was odd, he got lots of photos because he was odd? Eccentric? I don't think so. Not sure a bloke wandering around the shops in my area would be seen the same way as that piper. Horses for Courses perhaps???

You're going to see this more and more. It's called steam punk fashion, it's a trend and it is growing. Watch for waxed curled mustaches, 19th Century attire but mixed with gears and mechanical tech gadgets.

N