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    The white dress-ivory dress thing has never had anything to do with chastity, and everything to do with age. White dresses were (and still are) considered "proper" for under 30's and ivory is considered the proper choice for women over 30.

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    i used celtic as a group. it was the wrong word, and i appologize. but i wish the point of my post was paid attention too, that it is personal expression, and if we are here to represent the right for us to wear a kilt as a form of personal expression. but no lets focus on the incorrect use of the word "celtic"

    by the way its a hard C

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    Quote Originally Posted by zenney19 View Post
    i used celtic as a group. it was the wrong word, and i appologize. but i wish the point of my post was paid attention too, that it is personal expression, and if we are here to represent the right for us to wear a kilt as a form of personal expression. but no lets focus on the incorrect use of the word "celtic"

    by the way its a hard C
    Unless you choose to use a soft C

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul. View Post
    I'm wondering where the traditional waistpoint would be. I realise it's somewhere above the hips and when measuring for my kilts I just went with where evers most comfortable.
    I sometimes feel my kilt sits a bit high as I had it made a 25" long and I'm only 6ft.

    Wearing a kilt is completely different from wearing jeans or shorts for me - as I feel it should be. If not then my 25" kilt would trail on the ground!
    The waist is where your torso bends. If you're not fat, it's the skinny bit above your hips, and below your ribs. If you're carrying more abdominal mass than your supposed to (I do, sigh), it's probably not visually obvious. tie a string around your waist (guess...). Bend to the left, then the right, then forward, and then back, and the string will find the waist. some people have their waist lower than others; it's not uncommon for one side to be an inch higher than other. The reason trousers (and skirts, and kilts, and nearly every other lower garment) have the waistband at the waist is that's where it'll end up. In the second half of twentieth century, the trend has been for lower rise trousers, which have to be worn below the waist. I blame the invention of the belt loop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vorpallemur View Post
    In the second half of twentieth century, the trend has been for lower rise trousers, which have to be worn below the waist. I blame the invention of the belt loop.
    The waist in pants has dropped down from the mid to late 70's, and the belt loop has been on pants for some time before that.. but nice try...lol

    Frank

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highland Logan View Post
    The waist in pants has dropped down from the mid to late 70's, and the belt loop has been on pants for some time before that.. but nice try...lol

    Frank
    It was a joke, but it certainly does allow people to wear their garments at odd postiions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cavebear58 View Post
    Since we're on the 'traditional' theme, I think it is also traditional for women who are not virgins to wear cream rather than white. I realise that this is relatively rare these days, but I do still get a few brides who smile ruefully and say "I shalln't be wearing white...". In this case, I am wondering if the young lady concerned doesn't have a slight 'tummy'? If so, then the colour of her dress is definitely wrong - traditionally speaking!

    Cheers, Graham.
    It's unfair to make a moral judgment on this young lady based on nothing more than her appearance in a photo. She may be overweight, sick, or wearing an ill-fitting dress. The point of the shared photo was to illustrate how a kilt can be worn by someone who has little sense of the tradition. The lady's appearance on the happiest day of her life is of little consequence to the thread. Shooting fish in a barrel is what it is, since there is little chance she will ever get to respond to your baseless accusations.

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    To me, wearing my kilt at the top of my knee feels natural.
    Any lower and it rubs on my knee, weird feeling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vorpallemur View Post
    It was a joke, but it certainly does allow people to wear their garments at odd postiions.
    Note the "lol", I was laughing.

    Frank

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    I see it worn in many different ways when I'm processing photos at work. It really does look bad with the kilt below the knee and the socks pulled up to meet. The worst I've seen so far was the Brides' father with his kilt sitting around his calves !, and the shot was of them leaving the house. It spoiled what looked like a very smart modern kilt suit.

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