Fly Plaid at Burns Supper?

[Jock Scot]

My goodness! I did not mean to be critical at ALL. I just paraphrased what I've read and seen myself: that the wearing of Kilts, even at celebrations of Scottish history, is uncommon. Indeed, I've been told that seeing someone on the street in Edinburgh or Glasgow wearing the kilt, but not as an occupational uniform of some sort is a pretty good way to mark that person as a tourist! And, I would welcome any corrections if my observations are in any way incorrect.

And, by no means did I intend to demean the occasional Scot who wears the kilt routinely and comfortably.

ALL my questioning in this thread stemmed from curiosity regarding what happens at Burns Night Suppers, both in Scotland and around the world. My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that there WAS no Burns tartan while he was alive, and that even if there were, he likely wouldn't have been wearing it. I AM pretty familiar with what constitutes contemporary day and evening highland wear, but curious just because Burns Night is SPECIAL whether there might be ways beyond wearing clothes he and his friends probably NEVER wore to mark the occasion.

I am afraid that you need to curb your obvious enthusiasm for all things Scottish in general and increase your rather sparse but starry eyed knowledge of tartan and kilt attire in particular and listen, read and digest, before you leap to conclusions! Yes, we all had to learn even in Scotland and really understand that these finer points of knowledge of Scotland , such as, the Scots past and present, tartans and Scottish history. They are not something that can, always, be learned from a book, or a few weeks holiday here. After a fairly long life spent mostly in Scotland, I am still learning! The hardest part of that learning curve, is divorcing the tourist nonsense and certain Clan biasses, from fact. Not an easy task even for a local and even now I have to review my thoughts and ideas from time to time!