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    I am a Brick/Stone Mason, before that I was a Fish Biologist. I work in grime, slim, dirt, mud and Safety Equipment. So when I wear a kilt, I treat it like a suit or even a uniform. I like to gussy up on my days off. The woman who controls my heart and purse strings likes it better. This time of year I tend to wear polo shirts, only because I do not enjoy hot weather. During the cooler months, I love to wear a tie and a jacket. I recently used "The F-H.C.A.G." To convert a jacket. Wait, I used her pattern to fail at sewing, then had a friend easily convert the jacket. I can build a house, and establish population density of a body of water, but I can't operate a pair of scissors.
    That being said:




    Are you Kilted? Are you comfortable? That's what is important.

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    A lot of it is because so many people only see people kilted formally at special events.

    There are many ways of being casual and still co-ordinated and smart. Possibly some are surprised to see more leg when socks are scrunched down - but then they have probably never been on a Dumfries pub crawl!
    [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.

    Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
    (Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]

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    Hey Jordan!

    I think you look super. You get a thumbs up from me

    Tony

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    I agree, I think Jordan looks great!

    A couple of other "casual mode" pics ("public" Facebook links):

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...66&id=11996171

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...&id=1199617140

    The second actually was in Japan, in front of the Bujinkan Hombu dojo in December '99, just before the grandmaster's birthday party. That's not a modern kilt -- it's a feileadh mor worn with modern shirt and cable-knit sleeveless wool jumper. That particular plaid actually had been my blanket for the past few nights; dimensions about 5 feet by 5 yards.
    "It's all the same to me, war or peace,
    I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."

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    I know what you mean about the Kilt being seen as much more formal that it is actually being worn. I have worn my Kilt with a T-Shirt and been asked what I was "all dressed up for". I went to an event that turned out to be a piping concert and was in my Kilt (and the much maligned puffy shirt in black), only to be asked several times if I was performing. The really puzzling bit was that when I told them I was not a performer, more than one person said oh you should get up there anyway. Like simply wearing the Kilt bestows magical music/dance/poetry ability on the wearer.

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    I have been asked where I was performing when in a Sportkilt hiking kilt, polo shirt and sandals, running to the store for a loaf of bread. Go figure.

    Geoff Withnell
    Geoff Withnell

    "My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
    No longer subject to reveille US Marine.

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    Remember..

    Over the years I have been asked by folk of all type "Does the kilt make you feel ____?" Fill in the blank-empowered, more Scottish, hollywoody, sexy...

    All I can say is remember-YOU wear the kilt, the kilt does NOT wear you.
    And you are wearing that one.

    Mark

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