Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**ronstew** · 19th June 06, 07:51 AM

I don't want to be downwind of that bonfire.

**smaughazard** · 19th June 06, 08:43 AM

At Scottish events, DON'T just wrap a ladies sash over your Dockers and button-down shirt and think that you're really fitting in…

**Kilted KT** · 19th June 06, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by smaughazard

At Scottish events, DON'T just wrap a ladies sash over your Dockers and button-down shirt and think that you're really fitting in…

that is just plain wrong....

**Caradoc** · 19th June 06, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by ronstew

I don't want to be downwind of that bonfire.

Speaking of bonfires...

DON'T back into a propane-fired space heater while wearing a kilt. Any kilt.

But especially don't do it wearing a poly or acrylic.

(We had to ship someone off to get the backs of his thighs debrided in the emergency room a few years back. Artificial fibers tend to melt and stick to skin.)

**Nick** · 19th June 06, 09:34 AM

DON'T buy this: http://www.joke.co.uk/exp_prod_fancydress/2884.html

**Caradoc** · 19th June 06, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Nick

DON'T buy this: http://www.joke.co.uk/exp_prod_fancydress/2884.html

Nor this one.

**Kilted KT** · 19th June 06, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Caradoc

Speaking of bonfires...

DON'T back into a propane-fired space heater while wearing a kilt. Any kilt.

But especially don't do it wearing a poly or acrylic.

(We had to ship someone off to get the backs of his thighs debrided in the emergency room a few years back. Artificial fibers tend to melt and stick to skin.)

ouch, that is all I can say.

**auld argonian** · 19th June 06, 09:48 AM

It may be wrong but I saw an awful lot of it last Saturday...I guess they figure that they're displaying their clan affiliation but they don't have the means (or the....testicular fortitude) to at least wear the kilt.

I missed it but my wife mentioned one thing that she thought was peculiar. They had a procession of the clans and while there were plenty of gentlemen and ladies well and appropriately attired there were plenty of the "Dockers and a tartan scarf" walking along with them...then came Clan Gunn...

...so here they come...first guy was wearing a winged helmet...leather, studs, more cutlery than the senior class at the American Culinary Institute, boots, more leather, more studs, lots of "Yo-Ho'ing"...basically the Pirates of the Carribean in kilts...and last in the group is this little guy in his khaki cargo shorts with a tartan scarf over his shoulder, sandals, a little scraggily goatee and glasses carrying a sword...even my wife (who may FINALLY be getting this kilted thing figured out...thank God) is like, "Who's THAT guy?"

Now I'd like to think that he may have been a last minute konvert...and that NEXT year we're going to see the same cat kilted, leathered, studded and pierced hoisting his drinking horn to the skies and "Yo-ho'ing" with the best of them....thus is the power of the kilt!

Best

AA