Catholic School girls - Black Watch skirts

[pugcasso]

I have to laugh ... I walked by this private Catholic School in my city today apparently at just the right time ... and there was a whole crowd of these teenage girls all in Black Watch skirts (shorter than my kilt for sure!) .... and here I was in my Black Watch kilt. It's quite humourous ... a group of them ran past me on the side walk and one said "I like your kilt"


One of the more funny moments of kilt wearing!


I suddenly felt like some strange anomaly

[Father Bill]

Dear Pugcasso,

You ARE an anomaly. That's why we all love you.

Blessings!

[CDNSushi]

There was a glitch in the Matrix.

[opositive]

black watch has been my favorite tartan since i was a teenager, decades before ever getting a kilt. geez, who does not like black watch or its myriad variations? my wife went to a local catholic girl school which wore black watch--consequently, she freaks out unless we go out of the parish with me in black watch. i can understand her point of view a bit, since i would be a little creeped out wearing my sisters' school tartan--dress gordan--which is another great tartan, grrrrr--so now i have my eye on st patrick.

[Woodsheal]

I went to Catholic school in the '60s - 1st through 8th grade. The girls' uniforms were indeed Black Watch jumpers. Must be a popular theme...!

[xman]

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[English Bloke]

I have a friend who loves that I wear Kilts but can't get her head around my Lindsay double box pleat. Reason? Her school uniform was box pleated skirts, Lindsay tartan. Doesn't stop me wearing it though.

[KiltRevival]

In Australia we can have a similar problem as most schools have tartans of some sorts and I have to keep this in mind when choosing a tartan. Ironically, when I was at school, the tartan the girls wore was the Stewart hunting tartan which I always liked. Later, when learning about my heritage and kilts, I found that as a Francis we are a septs of Stewart and the same tartan was our family tartan.

Its sad that boys are unable to wear kilts to school as part of the uniform. All through school I would have prefered the kilt over pants.

[KenB]

Ahhh, Catholic School... yikes! Yep, the gals wore tartan skirts and the guys wore blazer, slacks and a shirt and tie. They were quite strict with the dress regs. Funny thing is that as much as the schools wanted us all to appear the same we figured out how to work the system. As you grew, blazers became smaller and more tattered and faded (elbows and cuffs terribly scruffed), shirt tail out, tie at "half staff", shoes not shined. The girls didn't have as much flexibility with their skirts, they just let them get shorter and shorter, more mini skirt than skirt. Short skirts and scruffy dress became the "in style" - the new student status. Things have not changed since the 60's.

[kc8ufv]

Around here, the Catholic school girls all wear Stewart....