To kilt or not to kilt: A St. Paddy's Day conundrum

[beowulf67]

Actually denim jeans (like Levis, etc.) were developed for farm and industrial wear, and were originally a mud-brown colour. Real cowboys preferred hard wearing wool trousers when mounted as "jeans" were the mark of a sod-buster. Anyone who has ridden more than twenty miles a day, for days on end, will attest to the fact that jeans aren't the most comfortable britches in the world. So, to answer your question: Since any Irish man can be a cowboy, but not every cowboy can be an Irish man, the answer is "NO".

And since I come from a long line of sod-busters, Irish and Scots, I can wear jeans, wool pants or kilts on any day I choose.

[auld argonian]

The weather in Chicago is great today...well into the 50's F....and the shorts and the flip-flops are already coming out. In the short drive from here to the poodle clipper's and the mall, I must have seen a good two dozen plus people out in their shorts and flip-flops...it's like they carry them around in their car trunks (boots for our UK friends) and dive in and change clothing when the temps go over reezing.

Why do I bring this up? Because the St. Patrick's Day Parade downtown is tomorrow (beware the Ides of March!) and they predict a serious drop in the temperature and these people will be there and theywill still be wearing their damn shorts and flip-flops!

Yet if you wear a kilt, these are the same people who'll be cracking jokes and asking "aren't you cold?".

Amateurs!

Best

AA

[Bugbear]

The weather in Chicago is great today...well into the 50's F....and the shorts and the flip-flops are already coming out. In the short drive from here to the poodle clipper's and the mall, I must have seen a good two dozen plus people out in their shorts and flip-flops...it's like they carry them around in their car trunks (boots for our UK friends) and dive in and change clothing when the temps go over reezing.

Why do I bring this up? Because the St. Patrick's Day Parade downtown is tomorrow (beware the Ides of March!) and they predict a serious drop in the temperature and these people will be there and theywill still be wearing their damn shorts and flip-flops!

Yet if you wear a kilt, these are the same people who'll be cracking jokes and asking "aren't you cold?".

Amateurs!

Best

AA

Ha ha! I'm laughing. It's been very nice weather out here in the desert, except it just started getting very windy this afternoon, and I have even worn my nicer sandals with myBZK.

This week is my families personal celebration of Scottish and Irish heritage timed to also end on the 17th. I have been wearing jeans and kilts... I don't have any wool pants... but I want some now... wool shorts? It's all good.

Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend, and a happy celebration.