Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[Kilted KT]

whit?...

ah....

noo then.... where tae start?....


ho, bouy.... :rolleyes:

he looks like a ken doll that an insane seamstresss is torturing!

[GlassMan]

You want to talk about calf problems? I've always been blessed with strong, large calves. Just my genes I guess. Or the fact that I'm short and I have to stand on tip-toes to reach stuff!

But seriously, I never worried about my calves until my leg injury. Now that I can't walk one my left leg much my calves have begun to whither away. My right calf is still in good shape but my left is a shell of its former self. You don't even need to take a tape measure to them, there is a visible difference in the size.

My orthopedist says that's one way he can tell the truly chronically disabled patients from the fakers. Someone faking a disability will walk with a cane or use a chair when they go to the doctor, but enjoy themselves on their own time. That means that both legs stay healthy. Those of us with real disabilitys use the cans, crutches, walkers or wheelchairs all the time and our legs begin to suffer the consequences.

At this point I have to check my flashes before I put them on. Why? Because the ones that use clasps all have the little adjustment buckles. And the flash for my left leg is adjusted to a much shorter length than the one for my right leg. If I get them switched, my right leg will turn blue and my left leg will have the flash fall off!

I could seriously use some padding on the left side. Maybe I can get a plastic surgeon to move some of the extra padding on my behind down to my bad leg? :rolleyes:

[Kilted KT]

You want to talk about calf problems? I've always been blessed with strong, large calves. Just my genes I guess. Or the fact that I'm short and I have to stand on tip-toes to reach stuff!

But seriously, I never worried about my calves until my leg injury. Now that I can't walk one my left leg much my calves have begun to whither away. My right calf is still in good shape but my left is a shell of its former self. You don't even need to take a tape measure to them, there is a visible difference in the size.

My orthopedist says that's one way he can tell the truly chronically disabled patients from the fakers. Someone faking a disability will walk with a cane or use a chair when they go to the doctor, but enjoy themselves on their own time. That means that both legs stay healthy. Those of us with real disabilitys use the cans, crutches, walkers or wheelchairs all the time and our legs begin to suffer the consequences.

At this point I have to check my flashes before I put them on. Why? Because the ones that use clasps all have the little adjustment buckles. And the flash for my left leg is adjusted to a much shorter length than the one for my right leg. If I get them switched, my right leg will turn blue and my left leg will have the flash fall off!

I could seriously use some padding on the left side. Maybe I can get a plastic surgeon to move some of the extra padding on my behind down to my bad leg? :rolleyes:

I feel for you , man. I'm sure someone in the medical field can work some magic and re-create the former you with little trouble!

good luck!

[Pour1Malt]

ai dinnae ken aboot the reat o ya xmarkers...

but ai think this fella jus looks plain silly....

[Mattg]

Yeah, I'd hafta agree with ya there

[Kilted KT]

ai dinnae ken aboot the reat o ya xmarkers...

but ai think this fella jus looks plain silly....

I'm fairly certain he would be shot if he went to some of the country bars here in town...

[davedove]

ai dinnae ken aboot the reat o ya xmarkers...

but ai think this fella jus looks plain silly....

I've trying to figure out how to blend my western look with my kilted look, but I am afraid this is how I would look. I haven't done this yet, and don't plan to. I guess I'll have to be either western or kilted, but not at the same time.

[Kilted KT]

I've trying to figure out how to blend my western look with my kilted look, but I am afraid this is how I would look. I haven't done this yet, and don't plan to. I guess I'll have to be either western or kilted, but not at the same time.

I'm afraid that if you were to start mixing clothing styles of such vast difference ( like cowboy and scotsman) you wind up looking like a reject from a halloween costume contest. While his tartan looks interesting, having one's flashes peek out o'er the top of cowboy boots and I am sure some huge rodeo belt buckle, you are asking for a hell of a time when you run in to other cowboys. Even were it in good humor, it would be neverending.

Hmm..Maybe we should ask Hamish what is wrong with that picture?

[Prester John]

I'd have to make only two comments.

Wrong colors. If you are going to do a cowboy hat, it seems to me, though I am far from being an expert, that a weathered or brownish kilt would work better -saffron, weathered Robertson hunting or weathered lamont (not an ancient Red by any means).

Secondly, I think that the boots would have to be work boots. Cowboy boots are not meant to be worn outside the boot cuff of the pantleg. Otherwise they just look like I did when I was about 4 wearing them with every pair of shorts I owned, and every other 4 year old who does the same thing.

All in all, it would be possible to make it work, but you'd have to think carefully, and the blue thing just doesn't work...for me.

Just a thought. Wear what you like !

[Pour1Malt]

I'm afraid that if you were to start mixing clothing styles of such vast difference ( like cowboy and scotsman) you wind up looking like a reject from a halloween costume contest. While his tartan looks interesting, having one's flashes peek out o'er the top of cowboy boots and I am sure some huge rodeo belt buckle, you are asking for a hell of a time when you run in to other cowboys. Even were it in good humor, it would be neverending.

Hmm..Maybe we should ask Hamish what is wrong with that picture?

ai dinnae even think aboot whit he might hae as a belt buckle... but ai bet yur richt!

ai think- the boots arr just a nay gae with a kilt... those boots arr meant tae be under trouser legs... an the hat?... well... as others hae said- the twa looks jus dinnae blend....

ai'm sure a turban wuid look jus as silly....