In the supermarket.

[ccga3359]

I have a lot of people making comments lately with a mock Scottish accent. I have to laugh and tell them that I'm wearing a Canadian kilt in "our" Canadian national tartan. They seem to lose the accent pretty fast.

[HIGHLANDER1]

Hello The SP8
I'm new to the group and I stopped after I had seen your avatar it's great.
Hey do you think it be OK to wear a black kilt to a 4th of July party? I live in Southern California and it's been hot out here and I have not gone out in it yet and it came last week.
Happy 4th to y'all and Deo Vindice

Aye, going to the grocery store can be quite entertaining. I usually get asked "where are you from?" I always answer "I'm from Tennessee" and wait for the blank look of confusion. It happens more in town than in the Commissary on post. Next time tell him where he can get a kilt of his very own.

YMOS,
Tony

[sporranlegionaire]

Welcome, Highlander1, from Devon, UK.

[Archangel]

just a point to keep in mind. There are those, like my dad, who believe that military tartans are always worn respectfully. A Black Watch, a specific Gordon, some others are not to be worn casual because the "blood has been spilt".

After that it's up to you. It's one of those cultural things: like the American flag thing, we don't have that but we look down on wearing uniforms if you never served which Americans don't seem to mind.

And this train of thought doesn't need to be explored very much, keep the mods happy.

Or... the guy was rude and staring.

[Monkey@Arms]

A Black Watch, a specific Gordon, some others are not to be worn casual because the "blood has been spilt".

While I know that this is a topic that keeps repeating, I still feel obligated to point out that the Black Watch tartan is not exclusively a "uniform" it also the tartan of Clan Campbell, the district tartan for the Sutherland district, and designated as Hunting Munro and Hunting Grant.

Best regards,

Jake

[TheSp8]

Highlander1,

Welcome to the rabble. Yes, wear the black one if that is what you have. Be sure to post a pic if you do. San Diego should be breezy enough to keep you cool. Take care.

YMOS,
Tony

[Archangel]

While I know that this is a topic that keeps repeating, I still feel obligated to point out that the Black Watch tartan is not exclusively a "uniform" it also the tartan of Clan Campbell, the district tartan for the Sutherland district, and designated as Hunting Munro and Hunting Grant.

Best regards,

Jake

No problem, I meant it more as an awareness thing, something to add to the decision making process. Certainly not intended as censure.

[sporranlegionaire]

I stopped off at the Tesco supermarket yesterday to get in some booze - friends coming to stay in a few days and the cupboard is bare.
I'd not left my car about a minute, and was walking along the pedestrian walkway towards the store when a young woman, a complete stranger, sidled up to me with a grin and asked 'Have you got anything on under that kilt?'
I gave her back a smile and all I could think of was a very tame 'Wouldn't you like to know.' She laughed and sauntered off.
I was aware of a few stares and conversational asides in the store. One between a couple of guys I didn't quite catch in full, but ended in '... man in a skirt.' It's encouraging to know that, unless their education has been abnormally skimped, they know full well it's a kilt.
The best scenarios are when someone comes out from behind an aisle and momentarily freezes.
While I was checking out the beverages I was thinking of what I could have told that woman earlier...maybe something like:
'Oh, do you have to wear something under these things then?'
If said in a mock puzzled way, she still wouldn't know one way or the other.

[Mr. MacDougall]

I was in the bookstore the other day (yes, that bookstore, and no, she wasn't there) wearing my new kahki AmeriKilt. Three girls, about 12 years old, were there as well.

G1: Look at that guy.
G2: Which... oh. He's wearing a kilt, like my dad has.
G3: Oh, like in that one movie.

I moved out of earshot, then, so I don't know what "that one movie" was, but the whole conversation amused me.

[The Frumious B.]

Mr. MacDougall,
one cool thing about that trip was, no wait, two, yes two cool things about that,,,,no wait, three, yess, three...well, you get the Python, i mean picture...

was that even the 12 year old girls know it's a kilt;
that at least one other guy in Phoenix has a kilt;
that they have seen and remember Braveheart or another kiltflick and, lastly, that you are still hanging around bookstores...

Keep on Kiltin' (insert kilted Grateful Dead "truckin'" smilie here, when someone, not I, figures out how to make one) (Broad Hint!)

Frumiously smilin'

I was in the bookstore the other day (yes, that bookstore, and no, she wasn't there) wearing my new kahki AmeriKilt. Three girls, about 12 years old, were there as well.

G1: Look at that guy.
G2: Which... oh. He's wearing a kilt, like my dad has.
G3: Oh, like in that one movie.

I moved out of earshot, then, so I don't know what "that one movie" was, but the whole conversation amused me.