Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[Don Patrick]

What i think is funny is that everyone evaluates "do's and dont's" in this thread. We post pictures, and usually have a pretty good laugh at some things.

I'm just waiting for someone to post a picture of someone in a kilt, and then the picture happens to be of someone on this list.

Just a thought that we might not want to "tear apart" every single picture we see TOOO bad, because we might eventually really offend someone. Remember that we all were inexperienced at this at some point too, but I'm sure most of us can laugh at the sillyness that we once portrayed. I will offer up a really silly picture of me years ago, to show how uneducated i was at one point in my kilt wearing life.

I still don't claim to be completely authentic, but I look much better than this nowdays.

That being said, I love this thread, and I get a LOT of laughs out of it, and thank you everyone for some of the gut busting laughs.

What tartan are you wearing? Looks either Lamont, US Army or ..? Just curious. I'm on the verge of ordering a tartan.

Looking at it again, I guess neither of those. Maybe the Black Watch.

[Ayin McFye]

What tartan are you wearing? Looks either Lamont, US Army or ..? Just curious. I'm on the verge of ordering a tartan.

Looking at it again, I guess neither of those. Maybe the Black Watch.

It was just some random plaid from the local fabric store that i pleated and sewed the pleats in. I don't think it's an authentic tartan.

As for the belt, I'm in the SCA and these are the types of belts that many of us wear, and I just thought back then "Well if i wear it in the SCA, it must be period" LOL!!! NOT! Yeah, there are a bunch of period nazi's in the SCA that insist that everything is period, but at least half of the SCA just wears what they think they can get away with.

[Robin]

Sca??

[Panache]

What i think is funny is that everyone evaluates "do's and dont's" in this thread. We post pictures, and usually have a pretty good laugh at some things.

I'm just waiting for someone to post a picture of someone in a kilt, and then the picture happens to be of someone on this list.

Just a thought that we might not want to "tear apart" every single picture we see TOOO bad, because we might eventually really offend someone. Remember that we all were inexperienced at this at some point too, but I'm sure most of us can laugh at the sillyness that we once portrayed. I will offer up a really silly picture of me years ago, to show how uneducated i was at one point in my kilt wearing life....

I still don't claim to be completely authentic, but I look much better than this nowdays...

Well said Ayin!

Furthermore bully for you for showing that a lot of us don't quite get it right the first time. One wonders how many of the fellows we have regarded and noted the faults in their outfits have since moved on to one's we would admire. My first kilted outfit wasn't so different than many of these gents, but because of X Marks the Scot I have learned and improved:

A year ago:



Now:



Cheers

Jamie

[Dan R Porter]

Well said Ayin!

Furthermore bully for you for showing that a lot of us don't quite get it right the first time. One wonders how many of the fellows we have regarded and noted the faults in their outfits have since moved on to one's we would admire. My first kilted outfit wasn't so different than many of these gents, but because of X Marks the Scot I have learned and improved:

A year ago:



Now:



Cheers

Jamie

How ironic this is on page 101. Its like looking in the mirror. Nice job.

[Ayin McFye]

You brought up the old posts before I could Dan Porter. I have actually posted a picture of myself in the Kilt Don't thread.

Like I had said before, most of us don't get it right the first time. That being said though. Here are some pictures of don't from the recent Tucson Highland Games on November 1st.

First. DON'T let your kilt hang all the way to the back of your shins. this isn't just a drape that's hanging low. The pleats were this low as well





secondly, "IF" (BIG IF) you're going to wear something underneath your kilt like shorts, please don't let the shorts be longer than the kilt.




3rd. Ok this one isn't a kilt don't BUT it is a DON'T DO THIS EVER, ESPECIALLY at a highland games. I have no freaking clue what this lady thinks she was dressing up as. I have so many negative bad words to say about this, but I'll refrain since this is a family forum.





Enjoy!

[escherblacksmith]

Something else to note, SCA is not a re-enactment group. They do have some of the best research I've seen into fairly obscure topics, but they are geared a bit differently, to whit:

You will frequently hear a SCA person describe the SCA as recreating the Middle Ages "as they ought to have been." In some ways this is true -- we have few plagues, indoor plumbing, few peasants. In the dead of winter we have other things to eat than King's venison, salt pork and dried tubers. However, a better description is that we selectively recreate medieval culture, choosing elements of the culture that interest and attract us.

Ren Faires (depending on their ilk), have a similar bent, some really into recreating a bit of history, some that like wearing kilts and eating turkey legs, and some like me who do both . . .

to each their own, I guess.

Whilst we are talking about that, I was entering our show (I work for a friend of mine out there) and came up behind a pair of young men wearing very shiny new kilts. I came up behind them and put my arms across their shoulders and said in a very brotherly way, "Ach, I like yer kilts, there is certainly no more manly attire. But it is even more manly if the pleats are in the back . . ."

Mainly, I felt I should warn them before they entered the fest proper and be beset by all of the various "helpful" folk who will point out the faux pas. Rather loudly and with much pointing.

[ozone]

DO use kilts in ad campaigns so more people get used to seeing them:

[Hachiman]

DO use kilts in ad campaigns so more people get used to seeing them:

whilst I personally like the image, and agree with the sentiment in the original post, this picture actually reminds me of a previously stated "don't"....That is, "don't mix your tartans". These rather manly-looking men (I use the term loosely) are wearing checked shirts with their kilts (we Aussies refer to these shirts as "flanellette" or "flanno's") - and isn't that considered a fashion faux pas?

Or am I just advertising my ignorance? ;)

cheers
Hachiman

[Ayin McFye]

whilst I personally like the image, and agree with the sentiment in the original post, this picture actually reminds me of a previously stated "don't"....That is, "don't mix your tartans". These rather manly-looking men (I use the term loosely) are wearing checked shirts with their kilts (we Aussies refer to these shirts as "flanellette" or "flanno's") - and isn't that considered a fashion faux pas?

Or am I just advertising my ignorance? ;)

cheers
Hachiman

I do like the picture as well, and I give props to Hilfiger for trying to target to a specific crowd. Unfortuantely Hilfiger is known for their shirts that look like these flannel shirts. I think if you just took away the flannel shirts and even gave them plain black or white shirts no logo or anything the picture would look a thousand times better, but then the picture would be advertising nothing. I agree that is in bad taste to combine these two, but oh well, at least they tried.