Wearing the kilt backwards

[pbpersson]

If you wore your kilt badkwards, you wouldnt know if you were coming or going

UH-OH....I have that problem now sometimes and I don't even own a kilt yet!

[Kilted Stuart]

I'm sure there's a few of us X-markers that wouldn't tell the poor soul that he has it wrong in the first place. If the guy looked like a bit of a goof you would probably have fun following him around at a highland games to check out people ( that know the difference) reactions and to see how long it takes before someone tells him. Most of us would tell him in a way that would not embarass the poor soul too much. I'm sure some of us would see him 2 hours later and say " hey!!!, there's the bloke with his kilt on backwards" and probably point it out to a few others.

Which one are you, would you tell him or just have a laugh.

Kilted Stuart

[GTRMAN]

I'm sure there's a few of us X-markers that wouldn't tell the poor soul that he has it wrong in the first place. If the guy looked like a bit of a goof you would probably have fun following him around at a highland games to check out people ( that know the difference) reactions and to see how long it takes before someone tells him. Most of us would tell him in a way that would not embarass the poor soul too much. I'm sure some of us would see him 2 hours later and say " hey!!!, there's the bloke with his kilt on backwards" and probably point it out to a few others.

Which one are you, would you tell him or just have a laugh.

Kilted Stuart

I'd nudge him and tell him that his kilt is 180 degrees out of phase... If he had any questions, I'd make sure he looked around at how the others were wearing theirs..

[mbhandy]

Now I would have to assume that the people at the wedding were wearing the kilt backwards because of bad advice or :rolleyes: someone was being funny and wanted to see how long it would take for some one to notice. LIke I haven't done any thing like that :rolleyes: . MMMMMMMMMM


MrBill

[Mattg]

I'm sure there's a few of us X-markers that wouldn't tell the poor soul that he has it wrong in the first place. If the guy looked like a bit of a goof you would probably have fun following him around at a highland games to check out people ( that know the difference) reactions and to see how long it takes before someone tells him. Most of us would tell him in a way that would not embarass the poor soul too much. I'm sure some of us would see him 2 hours later and say " hey!!!, there's the bloke with his kilt on backwards" and probably point it out to a few others.

Which one are you, would you tell him or just have a laugh.

Kilted Stuart

I would have a good laugh at his expense , then be nice and tell him. :rolleyes:

[KiltedKnight]

Many of you have expressed utter amazement that anyone could be so stupid as to wear a kilt backwards.

I was thinking of this last night and the fact of the matter is that kilts are just not that common in everyday life and you don't see them that often (yes, there is the Internet which is the Oracle of all knowledge but pretend for a moment that you have been living on the moon and don't know about it).

Now imagine that someone hands you a kilt and says "here, put this on". Wouldn't you naturally assume that you SIT DOWN on the flat part so as not to crush the pleats and you wear it with the decorative pleats in the front so everyone can see them?

I mean....it sort of seems logical, doesn't it?


I AM PHIL - THE BRAVE DEFENDER OF THE UTTERLY CLUELESS!

No. Anyone who thinks before they act would realize that the buckles would be wrong to begin with, why would anyone place the buckles backward? And anyone who thinks before they act gets some information on whatever they want to do if they know nothing about the subject to begin with, that's how dangerous situations form but there are fools out there and every once in a while they do something that draws attention to themselves and then here we are discussing the problem and trying to make excuses for them. It seems to me that they lack the ability to think or are deliberately trying to insult the wearing of the kilt.

Chris.

[GMan]

Well I understand what you are saying Phil. Just think of how you put on a button shirt, flaps in front and opens on your right.

[Colin]

Even without the internet, there are so many references to see how a kilt is worn. I don't where you are located, but kilts in Vancouver (and Winnipeg) were very common when I was growing up. No one in my family has worn them for a generation or two (besides moi!!!), but with movies, parades, Rememberance Day, the fact we have a piper for any kind of occasion, etc, etc it would be pretty hard for me (personally) to say I had not seen enough kilts to know how it was to be worn.

No. Anyone who thinks before they act would realize that the buckles would be wrong to begin with, why would anyone place the buckles backward?

This is my other point. Maybe it would be easy to put on a velcro closure kilt or a UK type kilt on backwards, but a traditional kilt would be difficult to put on backwards. It would feel like trying to put on dress pants backwards and do up the fly.

Maybe the kiltmakers need to send a 1 page info sheet with their kilts just in case.

[pbpersson]

I have seen kilts in a few parades but really didn't pay any attention to how they were made or worn.

I was told by my parents as a kid that since I was not Scottish I could never wear a kilt in my life and so I never gave it much thought.

I always thought that skirt-like garments and kilts would be comfortable, but being a man and not Scottish I was told it was against the law or an insult to wear them so I figured I never could.

[Kilted KT]

How many Xmarkers does it take to turn one of those clueless persons kilts around so it's on frontwards. Answer:

Six. Two to hold the kilt and the otherr four to spin the guy around inside it. It also requires a lot of Single malt as "lubrication" for all involved.

wouldn't that total 10 then?

two to hold the kilt
four to spin the guy
Pour1Malt for hold the scotch
two to feed scotch to the others..
one to keep everyone from laughing out loud at the back-to-front kilt...