Tonight's the night

[tomcherv]

Wearing my kilt to the cub scout meeting. This meeting's theme is "My Family Tree". I've asked the scouts to either wear or bring something that reflects their heritage, so it will be interesting to see what we get.

I'm not Scottish, but when I've looked at the history of Scouting, there were several Scots gentleman who played important roles in the beginning. That's why I'll wear it tonight. I plan to educate the scouts about the scouting heritage.

My wife doesn't know I'm planning to wear my kilt. Here's hoping she likes it and wants me to wear it for her. She may not even remember I have it. I made it over 11 years ago before we were married, but never quite finished it. I have been re-working it on and off (secretly) over the last several months. Amongst taking it in about 6 inches, I replaced the buckles and straps, and finished lining it.

The times I've put it on to check the fit, I really didn't want to take it off. Unfortunately, I don't have a sporran. I'm either going to rent a cheap looking one from the costume shop, or use a nice black leather pouch (about 4 inches by 6 inches - maybe a little bigger) that looks quite nice. The pouch is made to go on a belt, and has a flap that folds over the front.

My kilt is an 8 yard, Black Stewart, pleated to stripe.

I'll post pics tomorrow (hopefully).

[Owl of Oban]

Great idea, celebrating the heritage of Scouting.

Would like to see those pics. Nothing but admiration for folk who can sew a kilt.

Good luck with it!

[GMan]

That is really neat to hear. Glad that you are doing it.

[Phil Wright]

Good luck with it. If they're anything like the kids I deal with they'll love it. I think it's important to promote cultural diversity & respect - the younger the better. (Shame we can't do a bit more with some of their parents!)

The pouch idea sounds fine- unless you want a good excuse to buy that accompanying sporran:grin:

Hope you all have a great time. Wear your work with pride and your good lady can't help but be proud.
Phil

[tomcherv]

Well, the pack is used to me wearing something other than normal at the meetins. So far this year I've added cowboy chaps (September theme "Cub Scout Roundup") and I've worn a fire fighters suit (October theme "To the Rescue").

It's the quirk I added to the cubmaster gig.

[Sherry]

Sounds like you'll all have a grand time tonight.

Sherry

[tomcherv]

The meeting went quite well. I'll get some pics posted soon, hopefully by Monday.

No one really made any comments. It was almost a non event. I had one boy, a second grader new to our pack, ask me why I was wearing a skirt. I just looked at him and told him it was a kilt. He replied that it was a skirt. At that point, a dad and son walk by and the dad said to his son, "There you go. There's a kilt".

I had asked the scouts to either bring or wear something appropriate to their heritage. I had 15 boys bring something in. Part of the meeting was breaking into 3 small groups and had the boys share what they brought in the small group setting.

We had also posted a large map and asked the boys to put stars on the appropriate countries.

My favorite comment was after I got home. My 4 yr old son was looking at my kilt and said "That's what pipe cleaners wear". I looked at him and asked "Who?" "Pipe cleaners. You know they play . . ." and he went on to demonstrate what a bagpipe looks like.

Well, I liked wearing the kilt. I'm not quite so sure about what my wife thought, yet. She told me later that she and some other ladies were discussing my legs. She hasn't really said one way or the other if she likes the kilt, though. Knowing her, she would rather I not wear it, but she hates drawing attention to herself.

[Sherry]

Glad it went well for you, Tom. There's nothing like experiencing things through a child's eyes. And I suppose pipes have to be cleaned once in a while. ;)

I suspect that as you wear your kilt more often, & not much happens, your DW will just get more & more used to it.

Sherry

[Ranald]

Well, I liked wearing the kilt. I'm not quite so sure about what my wife thought, yet. She told me later that she and some other ladies were discussing my legs. She hasn't really said one way or the other if she likes the kilt, though. Knowing her, she would rather I not wear it, but she hates drawing attention to herself.

I glad the night went well was looking forward to your reply.
As for the wife, the attention will be yours so no-one will be looking at her!
Anyway I reckon by what you've said so far easy does it, let her get used to the idea, better still let her think it was her idea for you to don a kilt in the first place. Winning combination yes !