Well I finally did it.... I went and got a kilt!

I had already gone to this store here in Halifax (Nova Scotia) called the 'Plaid Place' on Monday and tried on a kilt (first time) and yesterday I thought about buying one but thought it wasn't reasonable to do (since I have a couple bills and have a measly income) but today I broke down and just went there and tried it on again ... this time I came out of the change room with it on and asked the woman there some questions.

(sorry for the pics ... taken inside - some underexposed and had to be brightened up on the computer and some over-exposed with a flash)
















(It's an 8-yard kilt ... in the pics it may look a bit too low below the knees but that's really just the angle of the camera doing that)


Anyway, I got it (I liked this general Scottish tartan) and pondered if I should wear it out into the 'real world' (although the 'real world' usually seems quite fake to me in many ways) ... I decided I would just walk home kilted (but not 'regimental'). On my way home I walked into an Army/Navy surplus store looking for a belt and any kind of small bag I could use as a sporran substitute for now .... I just found a belt I liked.

Then I went into Sobey's (a grocery store) and got a few things...


It's a bit different walking around in a kilt ... you don't see anyone walking around in them often here except near downtown for touristy things or weddings at the Public Gardens. Certain bus tours everyone wears Nova Scotia tartan kilts and at Alexander Keith's old brewery building restaurant, waiters wear them ... and also a couple people at the Saturday market wear them - which I go to with my paintings.


Some day I'd like to get an Anderson tartan kilt (My mother was an Anderson from Newfoundland).