The Dreaded Annual Halloween Kilt Thread - 2009

[Jock Scot]

Sure it is absurd sir, it's supposed to be! It's just a bit of fun.

I do see it is supposed to be fun. I am all for fun. The whole thing seems absurd from my British eyes. Not only the occasion, or, event, but also the British police and establishment's point of view. Likewise, as some one has observed, Guy Fawkes night will seem more than a bit odd to non UK residents. Each to their own.

[The Guy in the Kilt at UC]

Well having read the article and from what little else I know about it all, I cannot help but think that the whole thing is absurd, from which ever way I look at it.

I think that article is absurd.

[Jack Daw]

Many fundamentalist churches in the U.S. still have a 'Fall Festival' complete with costumes, as long as the guises do not represent monsters, evil ghosts, or demons. You can have it both ways.

[LANCER1562]

I once attended a Halloween party right after work so I was wearing a suit and tie and carrying a brief case. When I was asked why I wasn't wearing a costume, I told them I dressed as the scariest thing you could imagine... an IRS auditor. Now, show me your books. Both sets. lol

[wildrover]

All I can say is, it's good to know that "crazy" isn't just something we have here in America .

Just so you guys over there don't get the wrong idea from the papers and the crazy people and start thinking we're a bunch of Harry Potter-reading devil worshippers who rampage through the streets like Jack the Ripper leading a pack of teddy boys, with Venom pounding through our iPods ...

When yer a kid, Halloween means candy. Getting dressed up with your friends, going door to door, and conniving ways to convince people to give you more candy. Eating yourself sick for days. Growing older, and seeing how old you can still get away with it before somebody soaks you with a garden hose.

Later in adolescence & young adulthood, it means a costume party at somebody's house.

In college, it's another excuse to drink beer and meet girls. Other notable college holidays, ie reasons for drinking beer and meeting girls, are days ending in "Y". This one just involves costumes. Might be candy, might not. More likely, jello shots, body shots, and coffee shots. Notable costumes are "pimp 'n' ho", "pirate & wench", "bear & bait", "free mammogram machine", etc...

After college but before "maturity", it's the same as college, but you can drink legally, and you're probably going to a club, and there's probably a costume contest.

When people around here (near Boulder) reach a "mature age", the popular thing to do seems to be to go to this thing called the "exotica erotica ball", where you can see all the people who should always be fully clothed, but they're not. Frankly, I can't think of anything scarier, and when I get that old, I'll move to England where you apparently don't have to live in fear of such a horrible event.

So I figure it's safe to say it's a party like any other party in any Western nation . Drinks, dancing, and debauchery, but with costumes! Sorta like a Renaissance Fair, but everybody does it .

-Sean

[BEEDEE]

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[ForresterModern]

I will be on a Disney cruise with my family and, as I will be kilted for the captains Dress Dinner, I will probably also wear the kilt for Halloween rather than take another "one night" outfit just for that. Disney also has some pretty strong restrictions regarding propriety of costume---nothing scary, bloody, dead, or anything even remotely resemly a weapon of any sorts (I guess no sgian dhub needed then).

[string]

Here is how I went to class in a kilt last Halloween. This year Halloween is a Saturday so no professors wandering around dressed as pirates or druids or even more disturbing things.

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Although I grew up in Canada, I can't remember any adults getting involved in Halloween, except for a few parents with their children in tow. So when did all this adults getting costumed happen?

Regards

Chas

I guess you missed the whole halloween nightclubbing thing, almost every bar and pub you go to on halloween is a costume party. I'ts one of the best nights of the year to go out nightclubbing!

[Macman]

I'll be kilted on October 31, but not for Hallowe'en. My daughter is getting married that day, on Mau'i!