Sooooo, why don't more Scots wear kilts?

[ckelly327]

aye... coconut sporran! HA! guid wan...

an if the coconut sporran is made correctly ya can also dae a

Monty Python horse impersonation....

Where did you get those cocnuts?

Maybe they were carried here by a swallow?

An African or European swallow?

I don't know.

Great, Great movie.

[macwilkin]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that wearing of tartans and kilts was outlawed by the crown for a period. That banning of tartans is what caused the general confusion about what a particular clan's "tartan" really is.

Afraid not, old boy -- remember that the idea of a "clan" tartan realy didn't develop until the turn of the 19th century -- yes, there were tartans around that later became clan tartans, but the idea of a system of tartans to represent a particular clan came later, mostly due to Lowland firms like Wilson's of Bannockburn.

Cheers,

Todd