Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Regarding the cell phone issue while my Bluetooth earpiece worked I used it constantly. With it I never had to rummage around in my sporran looking for my phone when I got a call. I did have one guy in Vermont comment to me on the anachronism of wearing the headset and a kilt. That reminds me - I need to get a replacement Bluetooth...

I used to carry my cell phone occassionally clipped to my belt (got a smaller one now, so it almost always stays in my sporran), and a few times people made a similar comment on how it seemed "anachronistic" (they didn't use that word, but that's what they meant) to see a cell phone with a kilt.

Keep in mind, I wasn't wearing a feilidh-mhor or anything. It was a modern kilt, and a modern phone. How was that any more anachronisitc than the style of shoes I was wearing? Or my shirt?

I think this shows that to many people out there the kilt viewed as some kind of historic costume, rather than a modern form of dress (albeit one steeped in tradition). The cell phone was just didn't fit in with that image.

M