I've found this quote...

[Mr. Kilt]

In a place like Italy is almost impossible to wear a kilt daily or walking in the steet kilted, because people think it's a skirt and you are at least a bit effemminate !! Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!!!
Do you wear kilt usually, even you aren't in Scotland?
What's people attitude toward that?
I'm proud to wear it as a badge of devotion towards the tradition and the history it represents! we shall overcome!

Welcome to the group, Sargeant!
I live in western Canada, and I wear my various kilts all over the place. I get alot of strange looks, but very few comments aside from nice ones. I think you'll find ignorant people everywhere, but I tend to ignore them.

[Blu (Ontario)]

.... What does puzzle me however is the craze for garish 3/4 length baggy trousers...

3/4 length baggy trousers are worn here too but they seem to be mostly blue denim. Often worn with a rag hanging out of a back pocket or a loop of dog chain. Often baggy enough that the wearer must constantly hold them up with one hand too keep them from falling to the floor. :rolleyes:

I guess you don't have to be a slob to dress like one.

[Iolaus]

3/4 length baggy trousers are worn here too but they seem to be mostly blue denim. Often worn with a rag hanging out of a back pocket or a loop of dog chain. Often baggy enough that the wearer must constantly hold them up with one hand too keep them from falling to the floor. :rolleyes:

The wanna-be gangstas ...and I'd say the age bracket is more like 20 - mid 30s.

[Arthur's Seat Sergeant]

Welcome to the group, Sargeant!
I live in western Canada, and I wear my various kilts all over the place. I get alot of strange looks, but very few comments aside from nice ones. I think you'll find ignorant people everywhere, but I tend to ignore them.

thanks for your welcome, AL G. Sporrano!!!
I'll try to wear it more often by now but I fear the real problem is the cultural difference: Italian one is too far from Anglosaxon's.
Cheers!!

[An t-Ileach]

Where I live, most of the blokes wearing 3/4 length trousers at the moment are Antipodeans ("Kangaroo Valley" has moved westward in 30 years from Earls' Court to Shepherd's Bush) in "boardies" accompanied by the de rigueur accessories of "thongs" (flip-flops), t-shirts, wrap around sunglasses, and blonde sheila - some people are eternal optimists (it was bucketing down with rain yesterday)

[Rex_Tremende]

Such a parcel of rogues!

I like this phrase, and I think I shall borrow it.

Welcome to the asylum, Sarge.

Rex in Cincinnati

[TechBear]

The wanna-be gangstas ...and I'd say the age bracket is more like 20 - mid 30s.

Exactly. Anyone who has watched more than 20 minutes of MTV would recognize the fashion statement being made by rap and hip-hop musicians.

[TechBear]

I like this phrase, and I think I shall borrow it.

I thought rogues were grouped in to gangs, like rhinos are grouped in crashes, lions in to prides, crows in to murders, owls in to parliaments, etc.

[mudd]

I thought rogues were grouped in to gangs, like rhinos are grouped in crashes, lions in to prides, crows in to murders, owls in to parliaments, etc.

This begs the question; what do you call a group of Kilties?

[Archangel]

I like this phrase, and I think I shall borrow it.

Welcome to the asylum, Sarge.

Rex in Cincinnati

It's from a song sung by Steeleye Span, a pretty cynical view of Scottish political history in the eighteenth century. Not to say the view is wrong.

We were bought and sold for English gold,
Such a parcel of rogues in a Nation.

Something like that, the cd is downstairs.


Geezer never had that negative connotation in Scotland as I remember it. It seemed to connected to working retirees. I remember they'd do the night security over a bonfire on construction sites, no uniforms, just the old guy by the fire.