Kilt Discussion Panel

[haukehaien]

I would definitely agree with Panache's points, especially the second one. I know that it was much easier when I started wearing kilts because most of the people who knew me already knew that I played the bagpipes. (I always answer "Where are your bagpipes?" with "At home. Why? Is there a ceilidh?") I think I've gotten a lot fewer comments because of that fact, that at church or at work I was already "That guy who plays the bagpipes."

And I have no desire to wear a sarong.

[Zardoz]

Panache said; "I have wanted a kilt for a very long time but when I looked into it and found out the price I was discouraged. Until now. The potential kilt wearer out there today can go to Stillwater Kilts spend about $200 and have a kilt, sporran, flashes, hose, and a belt for $200 (and get it pretty darned quickly too.) For $200 a fellow might take a chance on something different. For $1500 a fellow might think that he could get several suits that he knows he will wear instead of a costume he might not."

That was basically my story too, I put together a list of online resources to had out with a few lower cost ways to get started.

[An t-Ileach]

I think the cost business can be helped along nowadays with the availability of Pakistani-made kilts (such as sell for around £50), or other cheaper kilts than the 16oz Strome.

I'd add to the list that there's an impression that you have to be Scots to be able to wear a kilt.

Now the Dorsai - Dickson's warriors for hire - are living up to the Scots of the Exile as war-like Alpha Males par excellence. Surely that's something that can be talked up into the Braveheart, Rob Roy genre: real men wear kilts.

And didn't kilts appear in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian/Barsoom series (didn't Captain John Carter - the original, not RAH's - wear kilts when he was wearing more than a loin cloth, that is?)?

[Zardoz]

Yeah, the Dorsai are a great example for the Sci-Fi crowd. I love the Barsoom books, but I think most Martian warriors only wore enough harness to hold up their long and short swords and radium pistols!