Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[macsim]

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

When folks comment on my cell phone I just say, "It's a modern day dirk actually - instead of pulling a blade I call in an air strike."