Thread: Kilts!

I'm not going to repeat myself. I'm Welsh. We don't have a "K" in Welsh, so Welshmen wear cilts

Originally Posted by Spike J

I'm not going to repeat myself. I'm Welsh. We don't have a "K" in Welsh, so Welshmen wear cilts

thought you might have been going somewhere else...

Originally Posted by Spike J

I'm not going to repeat myself. I'm Welsh. We don't have a "K" in Welsh, so Welshmen wear cilts

Historically Welshman wore pants...I'm happy to be pointed to any information that states factually otherwise. I only need a reason to convert to cilts.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Historically Welshman wore pants...I'm happy to be pointed to any information that states factually otherwise. I only need a reason to convert to cilts.

Historically Scots wore pants. It was only the highland Gaels that were kilted, but Scots seemed to have adopted the kilt well enough. The Irish now too. In fact, all the Celtic nations including the Welsh have taken to kilting. Norse, Cornish, Germans, Bretons, Gallicians all have tartans to wear which represent them. There's even an Italian American tartan.

Do you wear jeans? Historically only Californians wore jeans you know. Everybody else seems fine with that though.

The only reason you need to wear a kilt is that you want to. It's warm in winter, cool in summer and more comfortable than pants. You decide to do what you are comfortable doing.

Originally Posted by xman

Historically Scots wore pants. It was only the highland Gaels that were kilted, but Scots seemed to have adopted the kilt well enough. The Irish now too. In fact, all the Celtic nations including the Welsh have taken to kilting. Norse, Cornish, Germans, Bretons, Gallicians all have tartans to wear which represent them. There's even an Italian American tartan.

Do you wear jeans? Historically only Californians wore jeans you know. Everybody else seems fine with that though.

The only reason you need to wear a kilt is that you want to. It's warm in winter, cool in summer and more comfortable than pants. You decide to do what you are comfortable doing.

I had a bit of a chuckle at your post...Not you mind...Just the post.

I'm half Welsh and damn proud of it, and if the Welsh of centuries past could be proven to have been K(C)ilted, then I would embrace kilts as part of my heritage and would stride proudly down any street of any city or town you chose.
Jeans have relatively few years of history in comparison to the history I'm talking about. To answer your question though, yes, I wear jeans in winter and shorts in summer...It's summer here now.
I know the Welsh/Irish have taken to Kilting, there's even a Kilt that's been invented in my family name. That's the thing though, it has only been since sometime after 2002, that this little part of my family history has had it's own tartan.
When the Scots were running around the highlands wearing their Kilts, no one would have dared approach them to point and laugh at their 'Dresses", because the buggers had dirty great big swords, a dagger on their belts and an occassional sneak knife strapped to their leg and a fair degree of enthusiasm in using them...Now if I could also wear a dirty great big sword and get away with using it, if necessary, to backup my point, Kilt wearing would be alive and strong in this country, I'm sure. We have great skirt weather here, afterall.
In closing, I think Homer Simpson said it best..."I can't wear a pink shirt to work. Everybody wears white shirts. I'm not popular enough to be different."
So it isn't that I don't want to, it's just that I won't be able to get away with it.


Mick

Kilts are a bit like Speedos, a few guys look good in them, but most don't.

Now that just sent the shivers of horror down my spine. I've seen me in speedo's and I just don't have the speedo build...I replaced my six-pack with a keg some years back now...
You live yn Gymru Myrddyn? How many Cymro do you see in Cilts roughly?


Mick

Originally Posted by welshwizard

Kilts are a bit like Speedos, a few guys look good in them, but most don't.

I'm absolutely certain most women disagree with you.

I love my kilts. I have two. My Buchanan plaid is for the uniform for the bagpipe band--see my picture at left. My family plaid is "Baillie of Lamington"

Originally Posted by xman

most women disagree with you.

It was my Scottish wife that said that these days most men simply aren't braw enough for the kilt.