Haggis and kilts? No Yanks

[freddie]

Sad, but I can understand it. Some guys see wearing anything but trousers as questioning their sexuality.

Regarding Burns Supper...The Church of Scotland in London at their Burns Night do not encourage the wearing of kilts as Burns was a lowlander and was not known to be kilted. He also was living in the period when tartans and kilts were only worn in the military. (1746 -1792) as they were prohibited following Culloden.

There is an engraving of Burns dancing 'The Triumph" at a ceilidh and he wears breeches of the period

Burns was always proud of his Highland roots and refers a lot to the 'plaidie' in his works. I bet if he didn't wear a kilt he'd liked to have done!

[macwilkin]

Burns was always proud of his Highland roots and refers a lot to the 'plaidie' in his works. I bet if he didn't wear a kilt he'd liked to have done!

Quite true, Freddie -- his father worked on the estate of the Earl Marschial, a noted Jacobite in the '15.

T.