As St.Paddy's day grows closer I've been thinking about something I'd like clarified. I've read it many times here before that many people wear a kilt to honor/celebrate their culture. If you are Irish, or Irish/American, please explain what it is about the kilt that represents your culture.

As I understand it, the kilt doesn't really have anything to do, culturally with Ireland. Seems to be the kilt is culturally identified as Scottish, and Welsh. My understanding is that district tartans weren't developed until the 1950's, so, if you wear a district tartan is the significance in the tartan, or that it's been made into a kilt? The Irish regiments wore tartan kilts to differentiate themselves was my understanding also, so, wearing one of those tartans, or Saffron would be a celebration of a military tradition, no?


Either way, I don't really care why one wears a kilt, and I'm not trying to be inflammatory. I just seem to be missing something, so I thought I'd ask.