Scotch/Irish mix

[The Wizard of BC]

The thing I am holding is called a ribber. It fits on top of the Circular sock machine and creates the purl stitches that make the ribbing.

And I do offer footless hose but not too many people order them because you have to wear spats to cover the space between the bottom of the sock tube and the top of the shoe.

What I do not offer yet are argyle or diced hose. I have not yet perfected my technique of working with 8 yarns at the same time. I'll get there but not yet.

[Zardoz]

While kilts are a symbol of Celtic identity,
Hats are hats.

[The Wizard of BC]

I'm sorry, and don't want to come across as pedantic but "Celtic Identity" is a misnomer. The word Celtic refers to someone who speaks one of the languages in the Celtic, Indo-European Language family.
Celtic is not a people or a culture in the way you would use American or Italian. It is a language. The way you would identify yourself would be more like "I am an American who speaks English". Knowing full well that the language you speak is very different from the English spoken in England or the English spoken by Shakespeare

It is only in very recent times that some have tried to romanticize a single or unified Celtic culture. This came around about the same time as the neo-druids and those who gather at Stonehenge.

There are many different and distinct cultures within those people who speak a Celtic Language. The Hallstatt peoples of central Europe were Celtic speakers. The Gauls who sacked Rome spoke Celtic. Those who lived in NW Iberia, today's Galicia, were Celtic speakers. The Breton language of NW France is Celtic.

The la Tene who used the intertwinned knots and animals are culturally different from those who built the stone circles just like the Bretons are culturally different from those who live on the Isle of Man even though they both speak a similar language.

[AFS1970]

I find it funny and interesting that the two top vote getters are the same two answers that are given in just about every single question asked here. I have remarked before that they boil down to 1) These are the rules follow them or else! and 2) There are no rules, do whatever makes you happy. This poll is showing once again that the middle of the road if it exists is an elusive thing.

[Baeau]

.......This poll is showing once again that the middle of the road if it exists is an elusive thing....

If there is the middle of the road, then my comment must be the Bott's dot. Or, turtle, for those in the Northwest.

[Jock Scot]

I find it funny and interesting that the two top vote getters are the same two answers that are given in just about every single question asked here. I have remarked before that they boil down to 1) These are the rules follow them or else! and 2) There are no rules, do whatever makes you happy. This poll is showing once again that the middle of the road if it exists is an elusive thing.

I suppose we all see things in our own way.Personally I tend to follow the no rules route, but voted no. Why? To my eye flat caps just look dreadful when worn with the kilt and I like to see the kilt and the person wearing it, being seen to their best advantage. Apart from aesthetics, it is not and never has been, a matter of right or wrong for me. Each to their own.

[tpa]

I suppose we all see things in our own way.Personally I tend to follow the no rules route, but voted no. Why? To my eye flat caps just look dreadful when worn with the kilt and I like to see the kilt and the person wearing it, being seen to their best advantage. Apart from aesthetics, it is not and never has been, a matter of right or wrong for me. Each to their own.

That's odd, I could swear I've seen a picture of you, Jock, in a flat cap leaning on a crook. Maybe you were not wearing a kilt, I cannot remember, but if not why was the picture there unless it was crook related?

[Jock Scot]

That's odd, I could swear I've seen a picture of you, Jock, in a flat cap leaning on a crook. Maybe you were not wearing a kilt, I cannot remember, but if not why was the picture there unless it was crook related?[/QUOTE]

Oh there must be hundreds of pictures of me wearing a tweed cap, but there will be not one of me wearing a tweed cap whilst wearing the kilt.

An example.

A better view of the cromach.

This might be the picture you are thinking of?

I do however, wear a fore and aft with the kilt on occasion.

[FossilHunter]

Oh there must be hundreds of pictures of me wearing a tweed cap, but there will be not one of me wearing a tweed cap whilst wearing the kilt.

An example.

A better view of the cromach.

This might be the picture you are thinking of?

I do however, wear a fore and aft with the kilt on occasion.

It’s interesting that different styles of tweed hats would exist side by side without the cap ever migrating over to kilted wear. At least not enough to be common.

Especially strange since fore and afts are worn with trousers.

[Jock Scot]

It’s interesting that different styles of tweed hats would exist side by side without the cap ever migrating over to kilted wear. At least not enough to be common.

Especially strange since fore and afts are worn with trousers.

The deer stalker and fore and aft are perfectly proper informal kilt attire over here.