My wife brought me to kilting. She is of scottish descent and encouraged me to get a kilt after I expressed some interest (as of yet only spottily done) in Scottish Country Dancing. Also, after we visited Scotland in 2003, I had an epiphany of sorts:
1. most scots dont wear kilts on a regular basis if 2 weeks circling Scotland is any indication.

2. This whole tartan thing was largely encouraged by ENGLISH tour promoters AFTER the people who really wear kilts were displaced during the clearances and/or killed. So, I no longer felt any guilt about being a "fake" kilt wearer after that. My wool kilts so far are welsh tartans....also invented to make money and not necessarily having anything to historical accuracy or anything else.

Reaction from my wife was very positive (as expected). Reaction from my mom and dad somewhat more muted. My mom still calls it my skirt despite photographic evidence that she herself participated in scottish country dance when she was a nanny living in GB years ago. Colleagues were somewhat startled/surprised.

I am accepting of the kilt since it is a "man's" garment and it's darn comfy....especially whilst skiiing (although, I have to admit, powder days i'll still wear gortex).


My question to YOU stringthing:
So, Miss "i-dont-want-to-do-my-homework", are you going to turn all these spontaneous responses into a proper paper and/or get a nice undergrad/grad thesis out of this?
DO tell :-)