Thread: Kilts!

I definitely agree that attitude comes a lot more into play than body shape.

Does anyone have any experience with UnionKilts? I'm thinking of expanding my collection of non-tartan kilts and I don't want to pass on a decent product just because the models displaying the items are muppets. If the product is good, I'll giver 'er a go.

Originally Posted by Silver

Like the guys say, it's all about attitude. There were plenty of skinny, white legged, long haired kitl or cilt wearers running around these Isles years ago. Go on, be brave. You won't look silly, but we will want a pic.

Ill post a pic, but just for you. Maybe ill wear my Hannah Montanna t-shirt with it. (yes i bought it in the little girls section at Kohls, i had a gift card)

Originally Posted by tjiscooler

Ill post a pic, but just for you. Maybe ill wear my Hannah Montanna t-shirt with it. (yes i bought it in the little girls section at Kohls, i had a gift card)

Okay here we have a perfect example where a Kilt would cease to be a kilt, and become a skirt...
Sorry, but waist length hair, a kilt, and a Hanna Montana T-shirt?
You're going to need either a Huge knife strapped to your hip, and running shoes...
or something best be dangling about your knees just so no one gets the wrong idea...

It is attitude, but you'll need balls of steel to pull that combination off..

If you can pull that off, You'll have my respect.
If it backfires on you... Well, I want to see the pictures.

Originally Posted by tjiscooler

Ill post a pic, but just for you. Maybe ill wear my Hannah Montanna t-shirt with it. (yes i bought it in the little girls section at Kohls, i had a gift card)

Why thank you TJ! Not sure if the Hannah Montanna tee fits the overall look, bare chested and fully armed would make for a better picture.

Originally Posted by barneycg

Slight correction they were Unionkilts not Utilikilts, and Utilikilts are even more different - they use a stitched box pleat design rather than the traditional pressed pleat. They are as much a skirt as the small kilt normally worn today is.

I'll have you know most of the time I get a lot of compliments on my Utilikilt, obviously the there are incidents with NEDS being abusive - but that would happen with a normal kilt, there was also a recent occurrence of a 6 year old girl asking their dad why I was wearing a skirt.

You're right about the weight, at least mine is a lightweight cotton twill (lighter than denim) but the fact that I can chuck it in the washing machine makes it possible to wear on a daily basis if I want to. But as you say nothing much can replace the feel of wearing a "proper" kilt.

Barney

I stand corrected Barney. Checked out the website for unionkilts and some really are just skirts but some are more 'manly' and an obvious fun slant on the traditional. Cheap too in comparison to the nine yards. I have a pair of leather trousers that I used to love wearing out but haven't done that for a few years now. I think I am maybe losing my bottle! The earing went about 20 years ago, used to have hair down to my chest and at times it was anything from purple to blonde, full length afghan etc.... I used to enjoy looking different. Sh1t - I have conformed I must give this some thought or it will be pipe and slippers next

Originally Posted by Makar

I stand corrected Barney. Checked out the website for unionkilts and some really are just skirts but some are more 'manly' and an obvious fun slant on the traditional. Cheap too in comparison to the nine yards. I have a pair of leather trousers that I used to love wearing out but haven't done that for a few years now. I think I am maybe losing my bottle! The earing went about 20 years ago, used to have hair down to my chest and at times it was anything from purple to blonde, full length afghan etc.... I used to enjoy looking different. Sh1t - I have conformed I must give this some thought or it will be pipe and slippers next

Don't worry ... I conform too - though I've not lost all the piercings and the one in my ear is 10mm

Re reading what I read I worry that I came across too seriously ... there should have been many smilies in my post. On the days that I have the b@lls to wear my Utilikilt woe betide anyone who calls it a skirt. The attitude makes the kilt, though I do find that the kilt definitely helps the attitude.

Barney

barney, makar-> I hear what you're saying as far as non-conformity goes, and that's definitely why I wore my first kilt, (20 years ago this fall) but as I've gotten older, the whole non-conformity for the sake of non-conformity thing gets rather tiresome. I still wear my gauged earrings (five ear piercings at the moment) when it's practical or I don't have to look nice for work, I've given up the tongue bolt and cover my ink when I'm at work. makes me feel like a fogey sometimes, but if it means keeping your job, guess there's not much choice. we've all got to pay the mortgage somehow. (<-yupppie nuremburg defense.) hah, I remember the first job I had out of college, I underestimated the stodginess of old folks and wore my kilt and kept my chin length hair in dreads... wound up getting fired for that

Originally Posted by jockeys

..... as I've gotten older, the whole non-conformity for the sake of non-conformity thing gets rather tiresome

Also, the very fact that you are going from this state of non-conformity-for-the-sake-of-it into a more mature 'I no longer care whether I conform or not' attitude is ITSELF conforming to the norm called growing up.

Confused? You will be

So I bumpped into this thread and I must say to all you kilt wearing dudes... Respect! indeed.

I figure they are confortable and practical at times and, with a bit of attention, you won't be showing your assets all the time or even at all. BUT one question came to mind... I decided to search for kilts on google and a lot came up. Among the results, Utilikilts came up. Cool... nice site, nice kilts, nice philosophy! It is a manly thing, indeed. In fact... I never thought that a kilt would be anything other than manly. Think Braveheart and all that stuff.

BUT... isn't there a heritage issue in the whole thing? I mean... I read through most of the posts and you lot of kilt dudes sound like you have a Scott heeritage or Welsh or Irish or something kilt-culture-related. I mean... you are mostly americans or from the british isles. For the second ones, heritage is there - you are kilt legitimate.

The first group, the americans are... well americans, therefore, from the melting pot of cultural diversity. So I take it that there is also a legitimate heritage going there. You descend from Scotts or other kilt wearing people, right? I suppose that if you were italian-american you wouldn't be wearing kilts...

So, the question is: do you think you need to have some cultural heritage or ancestry to wear a kilt? I guess it 's just a garment - a confortable one - and the Utilikilts site makes you want one and stress out the fact that the sheer existence of the male genitalia and it's very peculiar phisionomy legitimate the kilt. Hey... I want one! But I am Portuguese... sure there were Celts in Portugal. Before the Romans... and after the romans Celtic heritage vanished. So... I guess I wouldn't feel culturaly confortable in a kilt... because I am not a Scott or from Celtic ancestry.

What do you think? Do you have to be scotish/welsh/irish to wear a Kilt?

Originally Posted by fpessanha

What do you think? Do you have to be scotish/welsh/irish to wear a Kilt?

Definitely not ... and the particular tartan for a clan is a relatively recent invention - 19th century I believe, prior to that it was based on district and that was simply because of the availability of materials for dyeing the thread.

Go on do it .... wear a kilt and experience true freedom.

Barney