Packing a kilt

[Graham]

Nice site Phil, very useful.

DrDouglass....you're a worry!

[Dreadbelly]

Well, the 'Glish declaired a kilt a "weapon or object" of war and outlawed it for a reason you know.

Full on agression and packing... pleats!

[Graham]

Well, the 'Glish declaired a kilt a "weapon or object" of war and outlawed it for a reason you know.

Full on agression and packing... pleats!

Are you sure you don't refer to the Highland pipes? they were declared a weapon of war.

[Casey]

I'm sure that most of us would be able to endure a few wrinkles in our kilts, if it meant that we were travelling to some place we liked.

I even venture to include Hamish.

Casey

[Dreadbelly]

Well, the 'Glish declaired a kilt a "weapon or object" of war and outlawed it for a reason you know.

Full on agression and packing... pleats!

Are you sure you don't refer to the Highland pipes? they were declared a weapon of war.

I read someplace that for a period, kilts were outlawed as well.

Ah yes. Was it the Act of 1746? All forms of Highland Dress, bagpipes, and the ability of Scotsman to own native arms. All got canned. No weapons, no kilts, no music. Ownership of contraband resulted in penalties ranging from imprisonment, mutilation, and death. (I wonder how many pipers died? ) ALL clans were considered disbanded and for many rights of property and ownership were null and void under English Law. No lands, no kilts, no bagpipes, no weapons to fight back, no nothing. Starvation and death ran rampant.

Wearing clan tartans was considered a declaration of war. And was met with brutal punishment.

Bad times those.

Wear your tartans proudly boys and girls, it was paid for in blood and tears and broken dreams. It has meaning and depth and emotion. Tartan is a living thing, and perhaps, the finest statement one could possibly make about one's own convictions in the simple choice of clothing.

Self edit

Ban of Clan Tartans came later. The Highland Dress ban was bad enough, but there was more to come. I do not remember how much later, but, back in the 1700s, my memory tells me that the Clan Tartans had not been established just yet.

Quote:

Abolition and Proscription of the Highland Dress
19 George II, Chap. 39, Sec. 17, 1746
"That from and after the first day of August, One thousand, seven hundred and forty-seven, no man or boy within that part of Britain called Scotland, other than such as shall be employed as Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty's Forces, shall, on any pretext whatever, wear or put on the clothes commonly called Highland clothes (that is to say) the Plaid, Philabeg, or little Kilt, Trowse, Shoulder-belts, or any part whatever of what peculiarly belongs to the Highland Garb; and that no tartan or party-coloured plaid of stuff shall be used for Great Coats or upper coats, and if any such person shall presume after the said first day of August, to wear or put on the aforesaid garment or any part of them, every such person so offending shall be liable to be transported to any of His Majesty's plantations beyond the seas, there to remain for the space of seven years. "

That of course, was only the start. It goes downhill rapidly from there. Sad. :x

[Hamish]

I'm sure that most of us would be able to endure a few wrinkles in our kilts, if it meant that we were travelling to some place we liked.

I even venture to include Hamish.

Casey

Not true, Casey! Hamish doesn't do wrinkles in kilts - they can be avoided or rectified. Facial ones are, unfortunately, something else altogether!!

[Hamish]

How about cutting the legs off your pants and then slip your rolled up kilts in them? I bet you can slip two kilts in pant leg.

What pants??!!

[RockyR]

How about cutting the legs off your pants and then slip your rolled up kilts in them? I bet you can slip two kilts in pant leg.

What pants??!!

I am waiting for the next generation or two to ask that question Ham along with... "Daddy, what are trousers?"

[Dreadbelly]

How about cutting the legs off your pants and then slip your rolled up kilts in them? I bet you can slip two kilts in pant leg.

What pants??!!

I am waiting for the next generation or two to ask that question Ham along with... "Daddy, what are trousers?"

Troosers! Bloody ball busting troosers!