Hunting & Dress MacLean pix

[hkjrb623]

I also never understood the "proper highland attire" argument. No, you don't want someone walking around in a kilt looking like a bum, but it was created as a utilitarian garment. Just about everything in highland attire was designed for a purpose, not fashion. Kilts and other highland attire did not catch on until "highlandism" spread much later in history as a form of Scottish nationalism. Until that period it was regarded as the "dress of thieves". I cannot remembered who said that, but I can give it later if someone wants to dispute that. It was said in regard to English royalty wanting to be kilted for a Highland presentation. In my humble opinion you should wear it proudly, with honor of your ancestry, and leave the fashion dos and don'ts to annoying television shows.

[knotty]

Well, just because you "can", does not necessarily mean you should.

Like, you can wear a tux jacket with jeans and a white T-shirt, but if you show up for a formal event, hopefully, they will show you to the door.

Or, you could go to a ball game in full tails and top hat. But why?

AH THE FASHION POLICE.
Or are you offering to buy my clothes now?
Please, I ask you to show me the legal documents that say I cant wear my kilt in MacLean tartan (red or green) any where I chose.

[knotty]

I also never understood the "proper highland attire" argument. No, you don't want someone walking around in a kilt looking like a bum, but it was created as a utilitarian garment. Just about everything in highland attire was designed for a purpose, not fashion. Kilts and other highland attire did not catch on until "highlandism" spread much later in history as a form of Scottish nationalism. Until that period it was regarded as the "dress of thieves". I cannot remembered who said that, but I can give it later if someone wants to dispute that. It was said in regard to English royalty wanting to be kilted for a Highland presentation. In my humble opinion you should wear it proudly, with honor of your ancestry, and leave the fashion dos and don'ts to annoying television shows.

Sanx so much.
It seems to me that a lot of this thread is nothing more than eliteism & kilt snobbery. Neither of which has any place in society or in any other forum.

[Meadcrafter]

Well, I am sad to say that you are the first troll I've come across on this fourm of otherwise wonderful gentlemen.

This will be my last post to you, cousin.

"Don't feed the troll."

[flyrod6057]

Sanx Couz. That helped. Ill get the red first, the the green. Its so hard to tell with "swatch" pix.
Is that the modern?
I think Im leanin toward the weathered/muted tone.

The red is the modern, yes. It's pretty "in your face" but then again, so am I! My first kilt was the MacLean hunting. It still looks and wears great after years of wear.

The weathered Duart looks grand; wear it with pride.

Don't sweat those who'd tell you what or how to dress here. You wouldn't ask advice on how to wear a pair of jeans (which can be replaced by a kilt quite nicely!)


Virtue Mine Honour

[knotty]

The red is the modern, yes. It's pretty "in your face" but then again, so am I! My first kilt was the MacLean hunting. It still looks and wears great after years of wear.

The weathered Duart looks grand; wear it with pride.

Don't sweat those who'd tell you what or how to dress here. You wouldn't ask advice on how to wear a pair of jeans (which can be replaced by a kilt quite nicely!)


Virtue Mine Honour

"im you face" lol I knew we were kinfolk. Welcome Cousin.

[knotty]

Well, I am sad to say that you are the first troll I've come across on this fourm of otherwise wonderful gentlemen.

This will be my last post to you, cousin.

"Don't feed the troll."

TROLL?
Name calling. Very adult.
Please, dont call me cousin.

[hkjrb623]

TROLL?
Name calling. Very adult.
Please, dont call me cousin.

Take it as a compliment. In Scandinavian mythology trolls were a fearsome adversary. We are a Norse-Gaelic clan anyway. Trolls of the Highlands!

[knotty]

Take it as a compliment. In Scandinavian mythology trolls were a fearsome adversary. We are a Norse-Gaelic clan anyway. Trolls of the Highlands!

sanx
it will take more than name callin to get me down

[flyrod6057]

Take it as a compliment. In Scandinavian mythology trolls were a fearsome adversary. We are a Norse-Gaelic clan anyway. Trolls of the Highlands!