Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**BruceK** · 26th February 08, 07:09 PM

Regarding the cell phone issue while my Bluetooth earpiece worked I used it constantly. With it I never had to rummage around in my sporran looking for my phone when I got a call. I did have one guy in Vermont comment to me on the anachronism of wearing the headset and a kilt.

That reminds me - I need to get a replacement Bluetooth...

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 27th February 08, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by BruceK

Regarding the cell phone issue while my Bluetooth earpiece worked I used it constantly. With it I never had to rummage around in my sporran looking for my phone when I got a call. I did have one guy in Vermont comment to me on the anachronism of wearing the headset and a kilt.

That reminds me - I need to get a replacement Bluetooth...

I used to carry my cell phone occassionally clipped to my belt (got a smaller one now, so it almost always stays in my sporran), and a few times people made a similar comment on how it seemed "anachronistic" (they didn't use that word, but that's what they meant) to see a cell phone with a kilt.

Keep in mind, I wasn't wearing a feilidh-mhor or anything. It was a modern kilt, and a modern phone. How was that any more anachronisitc than the style of shoes I was wearing? Or my shirt?

I think this shows that to many people out there the kilt viewed as some kind of historic costume, rather than a modern form of dress (albeit one steeped in tradition). The cell phone was just didn't fit in with that image.

M

**macsim** · 27th February 08, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

I used to carry my cell phone occassionally clipped to my belt (got a smaller one now, so it almost always stays in my sporran), and a few times people made a similar comment on how it seemed "anachronistic" (they didn't use that word, but that's what they meant) to see a cell phone with a kilt.

Keep in mind, I wasn't wearing a feilidh-mhor or anything. It was a modern kilt, and a modern phone. How was that any more anachronisitc than the style of shoes I was wearing? Or my shirt?

I think this shows that to many people out there the kilt viewed as some kind of historic costume, rather than a modern form of dress (albeit one steeped in tradition). The cell phone was just didn't fit in with that image.

M

When folks comment on my cell phone I just say, "It's a modern day dirk actually - instead of pulling a blade I call in an air strike."

**Iain Robb** · 27th February 08, 04:40 AM

I don't know why a Bluetooth headset would be anachronistic with a kilt. Harald Bluetooth was something like Malcolm III of Scotland's great-great-grandfather-in-law.

**McMurdo** · 27th February 08, 07:00 AM

Yes it is a MacMedic Tartan here is the link to his review of same:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=32747

I've got another Don't, and Do for you, don't go calling a Tartan that means that much a tablecloth. Do your homework first.

**Ayin McFye** · 27th February 08, 08:22 AM

I saw that dublet at the games also. I definitely liked it. There was a green one there as well if I remember correctly. I had already spent most of my money on a new kilt and sporran (without tassels)

so I didn't have enough left to buy it.

Did you end up purchasing it, or were you just trying it on?

**Chef** · 27th February 08, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Yes it is a MacMedic Tartan here is the link to his review of same:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=32747

I've got another Don't, and Do for you, don't go calling a Tartan that means that much a tablecloth. Do your homework first.

Well said.

**Nick the DSM** · 27th February 08, 05:54 PM

ya sure its not a mactablecloth?

**Ancienne Alliance** · 17th March 08, 02:39 AM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Yes it is a MacMedic Tartan here is the link to his review of same:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=32747

I've got another Don't, and Do for you, don't go calling a Tartan that means that much a tablecloth. Do your homework first.

Right on !

**Riverkilt** · 17th March 08, 09:26 AM

Hear Hear,

The MacMedic tartan is near sacred. If there were ever any way I woulda, coulda, qualified for a MacMedic tartan I'd have one in a heartbeat. But I don't think assisting at autopsies, working psychiatric wards and detox units qualifies. My hats off to the medical folks of the world. Particularly the paramedics I was privledged to watch for five years. They never give up. Watched a team work a "dead" lady for 45 minutes...it seemed almost cruel and abusive...but they found life in her and she lived. Amazing stuff the men and women of emergency medicine do. Anyone in a MacMedic tartan deserves a salute, a handshake, a hug, and an attaboy. Most of us have no clue what they endure day after day after day to save others.

Ron