I started SCD as a teenager with my parents in the local Caledonian Club, and later got roped into a demonstration at university – for which I was required to wear a borrowed kilt. A kilt? Me in a kilt?
But I survived the experience and soon acquired my own made to measure (thanks to generous parents).

I have been dancing ever since, joined a group in the Hague to make some friends there, got a group going in Marrkech, would you believe it? Joined another in NCarolina, and have founded groups here in France.

It's a great sociable international pastime, exercise for the body and the brain. I can't imagine life without.

My latest endeavour was to organize an SCD holiday near Grenoble last summer which was great fun with people coming from 9 different nations – a reflexion of the universal appeal of this kind of activity, and the worldwide spread of kilt wearing. I'm organizing a second dancing holiday at the end of June, if anyone is interested.
See :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france/Gre04.htm

Although most of the dancers in France are French and probably have no family connexions with Scotland, they all have kilts, but I am ceertainly the only man that wears one when not dancing.

Kilts here seem to be associated with rugby more than anything else (supporters travel kilted), and when strangers speak to me about my kilt, they invariably ask me what I thought of the latest match.

Martin (the other one),
In Grenoble, France