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.

[MacSimoin]

Lets find a way to use two of the most powerful things in the universe: American TV and Kilts, to promote kilt wearing...

Let's not.

Do we really need any country's national dress glamorized on American TV? No, I think not. There's already enough Hollyweird types who don kilts every St. Pat's (i.e. Tony Danza) so why on earth try to saturate the airwaves with a kilted guy on a sitcom? Let's face it, if it happened, that's where (a situation comedy) you'd likely see it on television (at least here in the States).

Sorry guys, I just gotta add my two cents and say bad idea; I think we should just leave well enough alone. Do we really need to see 'soccer moms' sporting kilts and/or the cast of some soon-to-be cancelled FOX program wearing kilts as they sit and around every week and bemoan the fact that their even wealthier neighbors have more kilts than they do? I don't. Let's face it: Kilt wearing commands enough attention on its own...why turn it into syndicated fodder for the masses?

Personally, I enjoy the fact that kilts aren't a mainstream or fashionably 'common' garment; I seriously doubt they ever will be and that's fine by me.

Afterthought: Not to totally rain on this parade, but I'm of the mind that if you really want to push for this, don't parade this here in the States. Push for it with BBC, ITV, Five or Channel 4 instead. Network televison executives here in the USA would only reduce a kilt to a gag (at best).

[Richland]

Do we really want kilts to become mainstream fashon????? They will only become fads....

[Pour1Malt]

the Simpsons hae had Willie in a kilt several times...

an Homer was in a kilt in the last yin ai saw.... sae wuz Willie's cousin "Gravedigger Billy" an Willies ma & pa...



Groondskeeper Willie... the mon hae gae us these greet quotes...

"Then grease me up, woman!"

"There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman!".

an when his kilt wuz lifted oop...

"Ach! 'Tis no more than what God gave me, you puritan pukes!"

[Pour1Malt]

hey- ai foond Homer tae!