A new Boy Scout in Kilt

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Maybe the parents were glaring because their sons are supposed to belong to the Boy Scouts of America, a country not noted for a tradition of centuries of kilt wearing. Possibly they were glaring because they believe that the purpose of the Boy Scout uniform is to give the boys a sense of equality regardless of economic or social status. Then again it might just be that they were glaring because they perceived some sort of "favoritism" was being shown to the boys in kilts. And ya know, some parents just aren't happy about any sort of proselytizing being done by the adult leadership of a Boy Scout troop, and that could have accounted for the glares you received.

Then again, they just might have wanted to go home.

[Highland Logan]

Maybe the parents were glaring because their sons are supposed to belong to the Boy Scouts of America, a country not noted for a tradition of centuries of kilt wearing. Possibly they were glaring because they believe that the purpose of the Boy Scout uniform is to give the boys a sense of equality regardless of economic or social status.

I agree. Can you explain why you would want to change the uniform that you are supposed to wear?

Frank

[MuffinMan]

This was not uniform night, that is one night a month where everyone wears the correct uniform, the other nights the boys come in their troop shirts with shorts or pants. This is when I wear my kilt so there is no problem with the uniform police.

MM

[Zardoz]

This was not uniform night, that is one night a month where everyone wears the correct uniform, the other nights the boys come in their troop shirts with shorts or pants. This is when I wear my kilt so there is no problem with the uniform police.

MM

"not uniform night" Get it? The kid didn't wear it with his uniform! What are you going on about? Save the vitrol for defending the ill dressed peerage y'all obsess over!

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

"not uniform night" Get it? The kid didn't wear it with his uniform! What are you going on about?

Actually, according to the post, the scouts were attending a monthly troop meeting in their Scout shirts, which is the basic Boy Scouts of America uniform, and the only uniform item a Scout is required to possess. And, according to the same post, the boys were in their uniform shirts. The point, which you seem to have missed, was about how wearing the Scout uniform instills certain, highly commendable, universal values in the boys who take part in Scouting.

Save the vitrol for defending the ill dressed peerage y'all obsess over!

If any of the posts on this thread can be characterized as vitriolic, it would seem to me that post # 22 is the one that may have crossed that line.