USA kilts in the news again

[zeytoun]

I am an 'early' Elton fan

Does that mean you do the crocodile rock? :P

[Rufus]

I am an 'early' Elton fan

Does that mean you do the crocodile rock? :P

Oh stop, you honky cat! :P

[Raphael]

People may have seen Madonna's 'kilt' but how many people know where did that come from? I bet most people thought it came from her costume designer.

[Graham]

People may have seen Madonna's 'kilt' but how many people know where did that come from? I bet most people thought it came from her costume designer.

quite right, I guess that's up to Rocky to promote, which he does through his website.

Regardless of how we feel about the kilts (I don't like them much for length and tartan) yet there is no denying it's a feather in any business's cap.

[Raphael]

I still think Celebs can do nothing to promote Kilt Wearing because most of them wear them on special occasions. They are still not seen as daily wear.

[Graham]

True again, but the little time they DO spent in kilts can often make a bigger impact that Graham in Tasmania wearing a kilt 24/7 for 3 years!

[GMan]

True again, but the little time they DO spent in kilts can often make a bigger impact that Graham in Tasmania wearing a kilt 24/7 for 3 years!

Good grief Graham! Don't you get any rest 24/7, I at least get some shut eye :P

But as I see it publicity is publicity whether it be us common people or celebrities, the best is word of mouth

[Casey]

Graham,

You sleep in your kilt?

Casey

[Colin]

I still think Celebs can do nothing to promote Kilt Wearing because most of them wear them on special occasions. They are still not seen as daily wear.

I would prefer not to see celebs (like Ashton Kutcher) adapt kilts into their waredrobes. This will only make it a trend when they move onto something else.
I would prefer to see celebs like Sean Connery, Mel Gibson, Billy Boyd, etc that wear there kilts formally as an alternative to tuxedos. Alot of us wear kilts on a daily or semi-daily basis, but the real reason kilts are still around is because of formal wear. This keeps them in the limelight, without overexposing them.

There is a better chance of promoting day-to-day kilts by having people like ourselves in our own neighborhoods wearing a kilt, rather than seeing some actor whose career is only as good as his last hit adapting the kilt.Once he is washed up, his kilt is only a gimmick and it is gone too.

Just my opinion.

[Rigged]

When women were trying to gain public acceptance of women wearing pants, Mary Tyler Moore stepped up and insisted on wearing pants on the Dick Van Dyke show.

It was one of the most popular TV series of the time with large audience of men and women.

Up to that time, the public perception of women in pants was that they were biker chicks, dykes, or hippies.

The network let her wear capri pants for one segment of each episode. She changed the public perception and showed that women who wear pants are normal house-wives. That gave average women the acceptance they needed to wear pants in public and to work.

I'm 49 years old and for most of my childhood, I rarely saw women wearing pants. During my early teen years, women who wore pants in public did seem to be counter-culture types (biker chicks, dykes, and hippies).

After Mary Tyler Moore, there was a big change and women who'd be afraid to wear pants outside the home began hitting the streets by the thousands. Companies changed their policies to allow women to wear pant suits and slacks to work.

Now, I rarely see women in skirts and dresses. Most women wear pants.

So, I think the mass media has a far greater impact on changing public perceptions than people acting in ones and twos.