Let's get kilts on a TV show

[Eric T]

Lets find a way to use two of the most powerful things in the universe: American TV and Kilts, to promote kilt wearing. There must be some of us who can get the idea through to TV series writers or producers how powerful and sexy and intriguing a man in a kilt is. A tv show with an regular character who wears a kilt but isn't portraying a scottish character but an average guy (scots are above average, perhaps?), fit looking and "manly", would bring serious attention to both the show and modern kilt wearing phenomena. Tartan and non-tartan kilts on the show would open people's minds to the possibilites, and I bet kilt wearing would really expand.

We all read about the favorite comments heard while wearing kilts, and the CDI factor. Kilts could be at hot item on a TV show. Spread the word!

[Blu (Ontario)]

Kaptain Kilt, perhaps? Such a show might stand a chance if it offered raw sex, humiliation, or outright ridicule... but the same old tired television show with kilts substituted for trousers, would be doomed to failure.

I thinks it's up to the pop music industry to move kilts into the fashion mainstream. I am extremely skeptical that this would happen any time in the near future. My spider sense tells me that in perhaps 20 to 40 years, we may see a softening in mainstream mens fashion. I'm not optimistic though.

In the meantime, the internet will have to be the vehicle of change... and it will be a slow one.

[arrogcow]

I'm a TV camera man, and for what it's worth on two different reality shows I've shot (The Mansion, and Monster Nation) another camera man has caught me on camera shooting in a kilt. I've been seen 8-9 times just doing my job.

Adam

[Zardoz]

After reading this thread I got a little brainstorm! I wrote an E-mail to the ABC News show 20/20, I talked about how there seem to be more and more kilts in the news, I mentioned the prom guy, that Denver water company, and some others. I also passed along some websites like XMarks, KiltDay, Tartans Museum etc... and talked about how much kilt business there is on the web. I finished up with a few tidbits about my own kilt wearing, and why I thought kilts would be a good subject for a news story.

I don't think we should deluge any particular network or news show, this should not look like a organized effort, But if you feel so inclined, drop a line to you favorite program. Maybe we can get kilts some positive media.

[Robin]

Write a letter to Oprah Winfrey?

[Jerry]

Maybe someone could volunteer to go on Jerry Springer, with their wife. I can just see the show topic now:

"My husband wears kilts and the other women won't leave him alone"

Before someone makes a comment about this not being the kind of Kilt exposure we need, I'm not really serious about this.

[Kilted KT]

Maybe someone could volunteer to go on Jerry Springer, with their wife. I can just see the show topic now:

"My husband wears kilts and the other women won't leave him alone"

Before someone makes a comment about this not being the kind of Kilt exposure we need, I'm not really serious about this.

that is pretty funny. You think Maury MacPovich would have us on?

[auld argonian]

Apparently they're still filming Jerry Springer here in Chicago...wooop-de-dooo. We also have Oprah....woop-de-don't. All of the local TV stations have gone over to the "studio on the street" format for their local news...they set up the studio in the storefront of some building and you can see the roiling masses pressing up against the windows in the background as the anchors go on...they also have the option of taking the whole shebang "outside onto the plaza"...I guess that this gives the illusion that they somehow have the "common touch".

The local NBC affiliate has always been my favorite news station so I've always hoped to be standing outside the glass kilted when they do the usual crowd shot...although I seem to remember a post on this forum from a while back that revealed a "secret" memo to news crews to beware of kilted men sneaking into the shot...I guess that they're afraid of a kiltee making an "editorial comment" while on camera...since the FCC and Congress have just raised the fine for "indecency" on the airwaves to some astronomical figure (boy, THAT'LL stick it to Howard Stern, won't it?), I guess that it figures. So I expect that if I did show up the security guards would shoo me away. They DO have this remarkable guy named Vincent who has a huge wardrobe of brightly colored suits that he shows off every day of the week forthe benefit of the A.M. news show...he's great...if we can get Vincent into a kilt, we'd have it made here.

Actually, we need to see guys like Jim Belushi or Dennis Franz show up in a kilt on one of their TV shows...that'd break down the barriers, I'm sure.

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[davedove]

Actually, we need to see guys like Jim Belushi or Dennis Franz show up in a kilt on one of their TV shows...that'd break down the barriers, I'm sure.

Jim Belushi did wear a kilt on one episode of his show. Unfortunately, it was done to make him the butt of a joke, and it was emphasized how "ridiculous" he looked. Now I'm all for humor, but that's not the type of exposure you need to make kilt wearing generally acceptable.

What we need is for some notable personality to begin wearing the kilt as part of his everyday outfits, not for a special occasion, but just because he wants to. I'm thinking it won't be a newsman, because you can't see them below the waist most of the time anyway.

What would make an impression would be to have a major character in a television series wear the kilt on a daily basis. He would have to be non-Scottish and they would have to avoid bringing up the kilt as a point of conservation; you know, just show it as another form of clothing.

I don't really see this happening anytime soon though.

[elijah]

I wear a kilt on my public access TV show.