Originally Posted by
M. A. C. Newsome
I have no problem with kilts being worn with grubby socks and rugby jerseys.... I just wonder why all those fellows are also wearing their nice dress Prince Charlie sporrans at the same time! :-)
Seriously, that's what bothered me the most in a lot of those photos -- the mish-mash of casual and formal wear that makes it appear that the wearers really don't know all that much about kilt wearing.
Respecting the traditions of Highland dress does not mean always dressing formally, or even always dressing nicely! But it does mean a certain care is taken to wear with kilt within the broader context of fashion and tradition that it has developed in, and not wearing it as a costume.
Wearing a formal sporran with your rugby jersey and scrunched down hose, to my eye, makes the whole thing look like a costume. "This is my kilt outfit" it seems to say. It matters not that the elements of the outfit really don't all go together.
If the chrome-cantled fur sporrans were simply replaced with plain leather day sporrans in most of those photos, they'd be ok. (I'm not even touching on the subject of Neo-Jacobite shirts, or rainbow kilts in this post, mind you!)
Matt, I think the problem you described is because most people here who own their kilts have bought them for a wedding or something, got the full rig with only a dress sporran which they wear with the kilt and a football/ rugby top because its the only one they have. We see it here when scotland play. Infact I could almost definatly say they're not thinking about weather its apropriate daywear or not.
Jordan
The hielan' man he wears the kilt, even when it's snowin';
He kens na where the wind comes frae,
But he kens fine where its goin'.
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