Quote Originally Posted by dana
Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher
Quote Originally Posted by Hamish
Also, I found it 'painful' to see some rather good, traditional kilts being desecrated in all that mud and muck. That's no way to treat the kilt!
On the contrary, Hamish, I think it's wonderful that someone will wear his kilt to do anything, even slide around in the mud. If someone would do this in trousers, why not in a kilt (which can always be dry cleaned)? They are wearing their kilts as "garments" and not as "costumes," as Bear would say.

Andrew.
Couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts exactly.

Thanks Andrew

dana
I do assure you that none of my kilts is treated as a "costume". For me to do so would be going strictly against my principles. However my traditional tartan (and some plain) kilts, which have cost me, on average, £275 each deserve greater respect than to be dragged through the mud!

Were I a trousered sort of guy, I would not wear a business suit to do that, I would wear a pair of old jeans. In other words, should I wish to roll around in the mud, as a kilt-wearer, I would don a Utilikilt which could later be thrown in a washing machine - not an expensive, woollen kilt which would never be the same again, no matter how good the dry cleaning and pressing!

On second thoughts, maybe that is why so many of the guys in those photos are wearing 'pretend' kilts - their 'real' ones having been left safely at home