Kilts for Halloween?

[MacFett]

I will be going as a mangy Scotch git, but I will not be wearing a kilt (visibly).

[Amelorn]

It depends on the function and your judgment.

I would not wear my kilt and stuff to a typical alcohol fueled student party (Eve n at St Andrews, we know drunken revelry). $600-1000 worth of worsted wool and tweed doesn't deserve to be soaked in Tennents or vodka-cranberry juice cocktails.

To a milder party, yes. Or to a dance, yes.

This halloween, I have tickets to a "Black Tie Bond" midnight screening of Quantum of Solace [Jame Bond]. Everyone wears black-tie attire, attends a drinks reception, then goes to watch the movie. I am going kilted, obviously.

[eighties]

Ah, yes the yearly thread.

For me because I enjoy wearing kilts for several reasons, I have incorporated the kilt into Halloween costumes, like the year I dressed as a knight. (Funny, nobody asked if I was a Scottish knight). But I also wear kilts regardless so there is a better than average chance it will be what I pulled out of the closet for that day as well.

On the other hand, the bottom line is if I wear a kilt on Halloween it's because that is what I chose to wear that day. If people want to think I'm wearing a costume, that is their mistake to make, those who know me will know I'm not wearing a costume. Either way it's no skin off my back.

[Phil]

I'm not sure we quite share this celebration of the occult on this side of the Atlantic to the same degree but I can see no reason not to wear a kilt on Hallowe'en just like any other day. I do, however, have reservations about the type of Hallowe'en outfits for pet dogs being sold in the Target stores I saw on my last visit to America - and I might say, so did a lot of the locals!

[O'Callaghan]

I wore a kilt and my caubeen on Halloween. Never mind that most Irish stopped wearing caubeens before they started wearing kilts. I know that's an anachronism, but it never stopped Irish pipe bands, so i don't see why it should stop me. At least it's one occasion when no-one wants to know why you are wearing a kilt.

[macwilkin]

I wore a kilt and my caubeen on Halloween. Never mind that most Irish stopped wearing caubeens before they started wearing kilts. I know that's an anachronism, but it never stopped Irish pipe bands, so i don't see why it should stop me. At least it's one occasion when no-one wants to know why you are wearing a kilt.

The pipers of Irish Regiments of the British Army wear Caubeens to this very day.

Todd

[CameronTaylor]

This halloween I wore my black leather SK but as a kilt, not a costume. The costume part was the pirate hat leftover from my birthday party (which falls on Int'l Talk Like a Pirate Day).
Plenty of looks, a few pictures with the lasses, one comment : "Real men wear kilts ! "
Riverkilt's pic gives me terrible ideas for next year ....


CT -

[Cherub]

I will be going as a mangy Scotch git, but I will not be wearing a kilt (visibly).

and they called him Tim!