BSA and the use of Kilts as Part of the Uniform?

[Donnie]

[Standard]

As has been stated already the Boy Scout Troops have an official uniform that is not open to interpretation or alteration. Venture Crews are specifally given a suggested uniform and may adopt a uniform that they choose. There are Venture Crews that I know of have adopted the kilt as part of their uniform, but Troops do not have this option.

I don't know if the kilt will ever be accepted as an official part of the BSA uniform here in the USA as it is in Scotland. It would be nice if it were so, and an official tartan designed for our use, yes I know about the McLaren tartan and the ties to that clan. The uniform is such a visual statement and image of the Boy Scouts that uniform changes are few adn far between, and take a long time to come about.

[O'Callaghan]

My experience of the BSA is that very few parents are prepared to buy their sons the uniform trousers, most regarding them as far too expensive. Consequently, they either wear some other green trousers that resemble the official uniform to a greater or lesser extent, or about half of them wear a blue pair of jeans. I can only add that a kilt is not really further out of uniform than a pair of jeans, which you see anyway on about half the boys. YMMV.

Of course, I am aware that more of the leaders adhere more closely to the uniform than the boys do, but there are still plenty of BSA leaders for whom the uniform only extends from the waist up. I am not a leader, although my wife is. She wears a skirt to match the shirt, which I think falls within uniform rules AFAIK, but you do see male leaders in trousers that colour, which AFAIK does not, and in various other non-regulation colours, some of them close to the right colour, some not.

Doesn't it say somewhere that the scout uniform is worn for identification and not for uniformity?

[Highland Logan]

I'm not a Scout, nor was I one. But on this board the issue of kilts and Scouts has come up before, as well as the kilt and military functions. Why would anyone want to join a group which promotes uniformity and not want to follow the rules?

Frank

[Big Paul]

from Detroit, Michigan, USA!

[Jack Daw]

Hello and welcome from Houston, TX! I can't answer any of your questions form direct knowledge other than to tell you that I have seen a Texas BSoA troop wear the kilt as a part of their uniform.

[meinfs]

[Gibbs]

Hello and welcome to XMTS from So Cal, near Palm Springs, CA.