What standard kilt item to you just hate?

**siva011** · 8th February 09, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

SIVA 011

I understand full well what you are saying. Rest assured that a lot of the kilt attire that you,and others too, consider as costume, the bamoral bonnet for example, is in daily use here in Scotland(not by everyone)and no one bats an eye over it. I for one wear a balmoral nearly every day kilted or not.

Hmmm, well as I said it must be a matter of perspective. Only place I've ever seen them is at ren faires and highland games, but maybe if I lived where you do and saw them on a regular basis, my opinion might be very different. I really didn't know they were still worn regularly even without kilts.

I guess I'm too corrupted by the American urban styles I was always surrounded by. You mean you DON"T keep the New Era shiny silver sticker on your crooked balmorals while you're wearing them??

**GMan** · 8th February 09, 11:35 AM

Kilt pins, but that is just me.

**Jock Scot** · 8th February 09, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by siva011

Hmmm, well as I said it must be a matter of perspective. Only place I've ever seen them is at ren faires and highland games, but maybe if I lived where you do and saw them on a regular basis, my opinion might be very different. I really didn't know they were still worn regularly even without kilts.

I guess I'm too corrupted by the American urban styles I was always surrounded by. You mean you DON"T keep the New Era shiny silver sticker on your crooked balmorals while you're wearing them??

In the nicest possible way, your answer does not surprise me. Perhaps you can help me? What is a New Era silver sticker?

**1MUNK3** · 8th February 09, 12:03 PM

I do not dislike any standard kilt item. I've pondered this question since the thread began and I have a hard time coming up with one. White hose maybe

**chasem** · 8th February 09, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

In the nicest possible way, your answer does not surprise me. Perhaps you can help me? What is a New Era silver sticker?

In the states, it's a great trend with the urban style to keep the stickers that come on new baseball caps, instead of removiing them. They're big obnoxious stickers, and it looks horrible.

**siva011** · 9th February 09, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

In the nicest possible way, your answer does not surprise me. Perhaps you can help me? What is a New Era silver sticker?

Honestly, I'm not surprised that your not, well, surprised. Even though I have Scottish heritage, no one in my family prior to me cared even a little about any of that. Most of my family didn't even know their name was Scottish in origin. My family was totally infused in American urban culture. We had no traditions and nothing to identify with our heritage. I'm the first to explore any of this, and I am surprised at how much of a disconnect that can exist between us here, and a land where so much of our history comes from. For the most part I don't mind, as I like to think I'm brining some of this tradition back to my family, and hope to pass that along to my kids when I have them. Where this does get frustrating is when I'm passed off as the "ignorant American". I try, and if only those detractors would walk a mile in my shoes....

As for the New Era, that's a bit of a joke. New Era is a brand name of baseball-style caps. They have a sticker that they use to label their products as one of theirs, since their hats aren't sold in boxes and they don't attatch a tag. Naturally, this sticker should be removed when you buy the hat and wear it, but it has become a trend here to leave this sticker on. Maybe this is a "badge" of wearing a brand name, I don't know. But most of these stickers are either silver or gold in color, and are and inch and one half in diameter. Honestly, it is hideous, but it seems to have caught on strong, you can't go 5 minutes through a city without seing one of these.

http://www.cnvender.com/uploads/NY/new-era-caps-330.jpg

But back to topic, I know what I like and what I don't like, and I know I don't really like the traditional headwear even if it is worn regularly in Scotland, but I'm not so sure why I don't like it. Maybe it's just unfamiliar and will grow on me, maybe it's asthetics and I just don't like the way it looks. I'd love to make it to Scotland one day, maybe seeing what you mean and not just seeing them at the faire will change my opinion some.

**Sir William** · 6th February 09, 02:41 PM

Chain kilt belts for day wear.

Red touries. I prefer them to be the same color as the bonnet.

PC and other formal wear worn before 6pm.

Blended Scotch instead of Single Malt in my sporran.

**The Barry** · 8th February 09, 12:19 PM

You mean you DON"T keep the New Era shiny silver sticker on your crooked balmorals while you're wearing them??

That's awesome! I really want to put one of those stickers on a balmoral or a glengarry now!

**Alan H** · 10th February 09, 04:52 PM

I would like to point out to the moderators that after starting this thread I have stayed out, behaved myself, made no comments and generally acted the part of a model X Marks citizen.

...and I still can't stand to wear black kilt hose.

Jeez...this thread has almost as many views as the Lasses Wear thread.