Kilt Pin

[OC Richard]

I think it's the one of the oddest things that I've seen here on XMarks, the "Show Us Your Kilt Pins" thread.

Why so you ask?

The background is that back in 1975 when I got my first set of pipes I got hold of a catalogue that had a wide array of Highland Dress and accessories, The Scottish Shopper in Seattle.

There was no internet, and no shops anywhere in the region that had anything like that, so that catalogue for me (and many other Americans of my generation) was the only source.

There were kilts, kilt jackets, sporrans, ghillie brogues, kilt hose, Scottish bonnets, and kilt pins.

I was fascinated with the page of kilt pins. Here it is. They were so intricate and beautiful!



I've always loved the kilt pins made by firms like Robert Allison and others. Here's a thread I did about them

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...lt-pins-94957/

So fast forward to XMarks' "Show Us Your Kilt Pins" thread and I was amazed that most of the things people were posting were not, in fact, kilt pins. It seemed like people were pinning onto their kilts anything that a human could own. I think one person pinned electronic parts on their kilt.

It would be like a "show us your sporrans" thread in which the majority of things were women's purses and military pouches, as if people were avoiding the very things designed and made to be sporrans.