Simple question. Would you ever, as a Man, consider wearing a Kilt?

Everyone has that one friend/acquaintance who thinks having a Scottish great grandfather or something means they should attend all weddings/functions in a kilt.
 
Tefal said:
This seems like an outfit that was invented because the Scottish were too drunk to figure out how to make or put on clothes so just used a blanket
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Like i said, It is easy to take textiles for granted in the modern world. But, Prior to the industrial revolution (Which was much more about textiles than Steel really) Textiles would be Very expensive indeed!

I have no doubt at all that people would use clothing as bedding and vice-versa!

And the idea of cutting up a very expensive piece of cloth, wasting half of it, to make tailored clothing would only be something that the stupidly wealthy would ever consider.

Em3bbs said:
Everyone has that one friend/acquaintance who thinks having a Scottish great grandfather or something means they should attend all weddings/functions in a kilt.
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I am not claiming Scottish heritage as such (Though, having a very unusual name does mean I have been able to do the genealogy thing back to Kelso in the Norman era :p)

Just that I think, on balance, I think Kilts might well be very practical and comfortable clothing.

What I would be wanting, mostly, is actually a working Kilt/outfit. For when I do gardening, car repairs, whatever!

"Formal" Kilts/outfits are all well and good, but I would not want to walk into the local Supermarket wearing one any more than I would want to do so wearing a white tie and tails!
 
Em3bbs said:
Everyone has that one friend/acquaintance who thinks having a Scottish great grandfather or something means they should attend all weddings/functions in a kilt.
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That would be Rod Stewart who was born in London.

I have zero Scots in me but all my great grandparents were Irish so I pretend to be the height of a leprechaun every day.
 
dowie said:
That's sort of like the Welsh and Cornish wearing them...

They're Scottish but people have tried to make them a general Celtic thing.
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Bit like the uillean pipes. They’re an Irish instrument but they are used in Scottish music as they are less harsh sounding than the Scottish bagpipes. James Horner used them in the Braveheart main theme. Most people think it’s scottish bagpipes being used, but it’s actually uillean pipes.
 
Tefal said:
This seems like an outfit that was invented because the Scottish were too drunk to figure out how to make or put on clothes so just used a blanket
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Like Romans? While I was joking about it being Scottish toga earlier, it is a very similar sort of thing.

Until not all that long ago in historical terms, most clothing had very little tailoring done on it. Variations on long rectangles of cloth wrapped and draped around a person and variations on very simple dresses (initially just two rectangles of cloth with the edges of two short ends roughly sewn together to rest on your shoulders) were the common forms of clothing.

At least the Scottish "wrap and drape" variation was less impractical than the Roman variation. Togas were rather silly things, impractical for almost everything.
 
Kilts aren't actually particularly comfortable tbh. Heavy, bit of a faff to get everything on, sitting and looking right and deceptively tricky when standing up from or sitting down at a table :p

I quite often wear a kilt to weddings, but it wouldn't really come into consideration for a more general occasion.
 
I'm half Scottish but haven't ever worn a kilt. I'd be keen to but not sure I could get it past my OH. They're also bloody expensive, even to hire, so it'd have to be for more than just a normal wedding to bother (say, one in Scotland).
I've got a couple of tartans to pick from, but my mother's maiden name is Boyd which is quite a rare one.
 
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