kilts in Scotland

[Galician]

I know that some Dutch farmer still wear klompen and that some Bavarians wear lederhosen (my grandmother gave me my first pair at age 10), although it is a lot like the kilt in that they're usually reserved for holidays and celebrations. Can't speak for togas though--I've never been to Italy!

I had a friend in Bavaria whose father wore lederhosen as everyday wear.

But I HAVE been to Italy, and finding a toga wearer was as hard as finding someone with whom I could converse in Latin. I just couldn't dig anybody up.........

DIG UP, get it?

(Btw, piper, did you ever actually wear the ones your grandmother gave you?)

[beloitpiper]

(Btw, piper, did you ever actually wear the ones your grandmother gave you?)

Ja, habe ich sie getragen! I was ten, and my granmother (being the proper Bavarian woman that she was) insisted. I wasn't against them, but I think I like the kilt a bit more...

[Ian.MacAllan]

Ja, habe ich sie getragen! . . .

Ich auch. I bought my first lederhose when I was an E4 in Germany. They cost about 1/3 of a month's pay but I could afford that because my pay was almost all disposable income. I liked them very much while I was in Germany, but the extra perspiration caused by American heat and humidity quickly rotted the leather.

One of my life's ironies is that seven or eight years after I got out of the Army my income was eight times as high but, because of other obligations such as student debts and mortgage payments, I really could not afford 1/3 of a month's income for a kilt. It was only a few months ago that I discovered that there are now affordable kilts available to me over the web, and that I like the kilt far more than I ever liked lederhosen.


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