austria in progress

[Andrew Breecher]

Also, I found it 'painful' to see some rather good, traditional kilts being desecrated in all that mud and muck. That's no way to treat the kilt!

On the contrary, Hamish, I think it's wonderful that someone will wear his kilt to do anything, even slide around in the mud. If someone would do this in trousers, why not in a kilt (which can always be dry cleaned)? They are wearing their kilts as "garments" and not as "costumes," as Bear would say.

Andrew.

[dana]

Also, I found it 'painful' to see some rather good, traditional kilts being desecrated in all that mud and muck. That's no way to treat the kilt!

On the contrary, Hamish, I think it's wonderful that someone will wear his kilt to do anything, even slide around in the mud. If someone would do this in trousers, why not in a kilt (which can always be dry cleaned)? They are wearing their kilts as "garments" and not as "costumes," as Bear would say.

Andrew.

Couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts exactly.

Thanks Andrew

dana

[Hamish]

Also, I found it 'painful' to see some rather good, traditional kilts being desecrated in all that mud and muck. That's no way to treat the kilt!

On the contrary, Hamish, I think it's wonderful that someone will wear his kilt to do anything, even slide around in the mud. If someone would do this in trousers, why not in a kilt (which can always be dry cleaned)? They are wearing their kilts as "garments" and not as "costumes," as Bear would say.

Andrew.

Couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts exactly.

Thanks Andrew

dana

I do assure you that none of my kilts is treated as a "costume". For me to do so would be going strictly against my principles. However my traditional tartan (and some plain) kilts, which have cost me, on average, £275 each deserve greater respect than to be dragged through the mud!

Were I a trousered sort of guy, I would not wear a business suit to do that, I would wear a pair of old jeans. In other words, should I wish to roll around in the mud, as a kilt-wearer, I would don a Utilikilt which could later be thrown in a washing machine - not an expensive, woollen kilt which would never be the same again, no matter how good the dry cleaning and pressing!

On second thoughts, maybe that is why so many of the guys in those photos are wearing 'pretend' kilts - their 'real' ones having been left safely at home

[Magnus Sporrano]

The only thing I don't like about this new Austrian kilt enthusiams is that some people are actually claiming that the kilt was invented in Austria as a part of their marketing, which is patently false.

Amen. Everyone knows the Vikings brought the kilt to Scotland.

[Tim Walker]

Would it be too off topic to ask...what would be the most suitable garment to wear while rolling around in the mud?

[Casey]

Your birthday suit.

[Hamish]

Your birthday suit.

Darn!! Casey, you beat me to it...

[T90 Tim]

The only thing I don't like about this new Austrian kilt enthusiams is that some people are actually claiming that the kilt was invented in Austria as a part of their marketing, which is patently false.

Amen. Everyone knows the Vikings brought the kilt to Scotland.

Skoal!

[mcnice]

i would also not treat my kilts in that way, but i think the beginning of kilt wearing has to go through that: showing pure manliness...

some kilts look cheap, but then i saw a few made out from beautiful carintian tartan and those kilts cost 750 Euros

when vikings brought the kilt to scotland, let´s then keep in mind generally that trousers are a western invention/paradoxy of the french revolution and that no man had for centuries the idea to wear something bifurcated... since the dawn of mankind

[bubba]

That isn't entirely true. Bifucated garments were common with the eastern barbarian horse tribes at the time of the Roman Empire if not before that. It made sense for a people that spent a great deal of their lives on horseback.