Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[herminator]

Couldn't resist because this website actually thinks that they are selling kilts....silly Germans, kilts are for Scots.

OK, OK, this website is sh*t, But not all germans are as silly as you think, some of us just never mention these folks because well ...


And as for

kilts are for Scots.

Who´s silly now??

[emolas]

Couldn't resist because this website actually thinks that they are selling kilts....silly Germans, kilts are for Scots.

Well there is a school of thought that Celts are descended from the Germanic tribes of central europe who migrated to the islands...

Seriously though, those "kilts"(and I use the term lightly) are quite horrible. Perhaps if they made some sort of effort to line up the sett in their pleats it wouldn't look so bad but I'd rather wear pants than those things.

[gilmore]

Well there is a school of thought that Celts are descended from the Germanic tribes of central europe who migrated to the islands...

There is? That school must be out. The ancestors of the Celts, for the most part, came up the Atlantic shoreline from the Iberian peninsula, where they had been waiting out the last Ice Age, according to Y chromosome DNA. Theirs is haplogroup R1b. The ancestors of the Germans tended to be in the Balkans at that time. Their haplogroup is I. See http://www.roperld.com/HomoSapienEvents.htm

[taxdragon]

Well I did it...I went through all 102 pages and here is my list
Kilt at knee length...check
Don't pin front apron to back...check
Flat area in front and pleats in back...check
Don't wear sporran too high or too low...check
Kilt pin low...check
Flask a must...check
Make that a full flask...check
Everything else my choice...check
Now did I miss anything?
Oh yes, have fun...check

Thanks for the great tips...Al

[CameronTaylor]

Well I did it...I went through all 102 pages and here is my list
Kilt at knee length...check
Don't pin front apron to back...check
Flat area in front and pleats in back...check
Don't wear sporran too high or too low...check
Kilt pin low...check
Flask a must...check
Make that a full flask...check
Everything else my choice...check
Now did I miss anything?
Oh yes, have fun...check

Thanks for the great tips...Al

By jove I think he's Scot it !

CT - dang I are so clever (Marty Clever in fact)

[The Frumious B.]

Note, too, that on the www.kilt.de website, there is a link back to their site by way of www.sportkilt.de. Might there be some www.sportkilt.com trademark infraction here?

[Mr. MacDougall]

by way of www.sportkilt.de.

Interestingly, the garments shown on the sportkilt.de website are either worn back-to-front, or are pleated all the way around. I'm not sure which, as no pictures of the back of the garments are presented.

[ozone]

For those who read German, here's a detailed image of their kilts...I feel kinda bad making fun of these folks; shouldn't someone tell them that they are making skirts?

[Mr. MacDougall]

For those who read German, here's a detailed image of their kilts.

My German is pretty rusty, but it seems to me that what the headline says is: Lexicon of the Kilt. There can be only one: The Highlander from sheep's wool is simply not (deadtowear)(?) Since 1600 sught and worn by Scots fashion classic clans, the fashionable, and rockstars.

The material -- best Scottish sheepswool, what else? Thick, warm, and seemingly (?). Today there is also the soft version in cotton and wool / poly blend.

Wow. I hadn't realized how rusty my German had gotten.

[Archangel]

My German is pretty rusty, but it seems to me that what the headline says is: Lexicon of the Kilt. There can be only one: The Highlander from sheep's wool is simply not (deadtowear)(?) Since 1600 sught and worn by Scots fashion classic clans, the fashionable, and rockstars.

The material -- best Scottish sheepswool, what else? Thick, warm, and seemingly (?). Today there is also the soft version in cotton and wool / poly blend.

Wow. I hadn't realized how rusty my German had gotten.

Not half as rusty as their understanding of Kilt.