Where to wear clan badge...

[Macman]

I am sorry, but I think you chaps worry too much. Perhaps its because the kilt is not your national attire and you just don't have the full confidence to wear our Scots attire as we do?

I don't think it's so much a kilt or confidence thing, Jock. I've been wearing the kilt for almost 40 years, in Canada I grant you, and I've been wearing non-kilted business attire for almost as long. Personally, I just can't pull off the jacket, shirt and tie combinations that I sometimes see on Scottish gents, kilted and non-kilted. I do agree with you, though, that we may worry too much about the whole thing!

[NewEnglander]

Wow. I just wanted to know if I really needed to buy some sort of bonnet I really don't fancy in order to be able to wear the badge that I love. Now I've also gotten a bit of an education about patterned fashion choices and British fuel struggles. ;)

In all honesty, gents, I just wish I had enough kilts or opportunity to wear them to merit worrying much about any of the debate you've all brought up.

Carry on...

[Ancienne Alliance]

Wow. I just wanted to know if I really needed to buy some sort of bonnet I really don't fancy in order to be able to wear the badge that I love. Now I've also gotten a bit of an education about patterned fashion choices and British fuel struggles. ;)

In all honesty, gents, I just wish I had enough kilts or opportunity to wear them to merit worrying much about any of the debate you've all brought up.

Carry on...

Oh don't worry; it's just a question of time...


Best,

Robert

[ThistleDown]

It is indeed a great post, forgive me if I doubt that the message will be received, yet alone understood, by those that the post was intended to reach.

Let's then keep it alive and civil and out of the all-watching MODs' scope of worries. We are doing well, thus far. (I think?)

[ThistleDown]

Wow. I just wanted to know if I really needed to buy some sort of bonnet I really don't fancy in order to be able to wear the badge that I love. Now I've also gotten a bit of an education about patterned fashion choices and British fuel struggles. ;)

In all honesty, gents, I just wish I had enough kilts or opportunity to wear them to merit worrying much about any of the debate you've all brought up.

Carry on...

And we probably will, NewEnglander, because however you have done it you have allowed us to bring to the surface some lomg-standing issues of Highland dress perception. Stand back now and just watch and listen and learn.

[ThistleDown]

It is indeed a great post, forgive me if I doubt that the message will be received, yet alone understood, by those that the post was intended to reach.

The problem is Jock, that the message has been received by many but heard by few. And that the few who have heard and did not know before, have now learned from asking but will be replaced by the new un-knowing.

[Jock Scot]

The problem is Jock, that the message has been received by many but heard by few. And that the few who have heard and did not know before, have now learned from asking but will be replaced by the new un-knowing.

Ahh the "un-knowing". I am one of those. The older I get the less I seem to know!

[ForresterModern]

Ahh the "un-knowing". I am one of those. The older I get the less I seem to know!

As opposed to me, who in seeking education finds that, the more I learn, the more I find I have yet to learn.

Keep it coming guys.

jeff

[Jack Daw]

Much ado about clothing.

[Zardoz]

We Scots have obviously forgotten that it is Texas, and those who live there, and not the Scots in Scotland, who are the arbiters of good taste in Highland fashions. We have all been misled into thinking that because we, in Scotland, have worn kilt and plaid somewhat continuously for more than 200 years, that the way we dressed, as a matter of course, not costume, was correct when, according to the wiZARD of OZ, we have been badly misled by the examples of our forefathers and peers (and Chiefs and Peers). How foolish have we been? Let us immediately forsake our errant ways and dress as they do.

Let us wrap ourselves in Lone Star tartan, clad our feet in cowboy boots, put on tee-shirts with witty sayings and festoon them with medals earned by others than ourselves, and stow our dignity in armadillo sporrans along with a set of socket wrenches, our cell phone, a meerschaum pipe, the keys to our SUV, a compass, and the Micheline Guide to Dining at American Cultural Events . And thus attired, as "Proper Scotsmen", attend the Renn Fairs, Octoberfests, Quanza celebrations, Sons of Italy clam bakes, Olde English Dickens Christmases down at the shopping mall, and the YMCA Halloween Party. Oh yes, and drop in at the "celtic festival" where one can indulge in more food-on-a-stick and blend in perfectly with the rest of the crowd who are there to celebrate their Scottish heritage on their way to next week's Ludafisk Festival and Chili Cook Off sponsored by the Bulgarian Friendship League as part of National Pirate Week.

Or we can stick to our quaint ways, flawed as they are, and consider the source of sartorial criticism.

Ahh, a personal attack against me and my country! I wondered what all the supportive PMs were about!
But as has been said, consider the source; a member who as far as I know, has never been seen in a photo here, but is never shy about expressing his "sartorial criticism"!