Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[davedove]

ai dinnae ken aboot the reat o ya xmarkers...

but ai think this fella jus looks plain silly....

I've trying to figure out how to blend my western look with my kilted look, but I am afraid this is how I would look. I haven't done this yet, and don't plan to. I guess I'll have to be either western or kilted, but not at the same time.

[Kilted KT]

I've trying to figure out how to blend my western look with my kilted look, but I am afraid this is how I would look. I haven't done this yet, and don't plan to. I guess I'll have to be either western or kilted, but not at the same time.

I'm afraid that if you were to start mixing clothing styles of such vast difference ( like cowboy and scotsman) you wind up looking like a reject from a halloween costume contest. While his tartan looks interesting, having one's flashes peek out o'er the top of cowboy boots and I am sure some huge rodeo belt buckle, you are asking for a hell of a time when you run in to other cowboys. Even were it in good humor, it would be neverending.

Hmm..Maybe we should ask Hamish what is wrong with that picture?

[Prester John]

I'd have to make only two comments.

Wrong colors. If you are going to do a cowboy hat, it seems to me, though I am far from being an expert, that a weathered or brownish kilt would work better -saffron, weathered Robertson hunting or weathered lamont (not an ancient Red by any means).

Secondly, I think that the boots would have to be work boots. Cowboy boots are not meant to be worn outside the boot cuff of the pantleg. Otherwise they just look like I did when I was about 4 wearing them with every pair of shorts I owned, and every other 4 year old who does the same thing.

All in all, it would be possible to make it work, but you'd have to think carefully, and the blue thing just doesn't work...for me.

Just a thought. Wear what you like !

[Pour1Malt]

I'm afraid that if you were to start mixing clothing styles of such vast difference ( like cowboy and scotsman) you wind up looking like a reject from a halloween costume contest. While his tartan looks interesting, having one's flashes peek out o'er the top of cowboy boots and I am sure some huge rodeo belt buckle, you are asking for a hell of a time when you run in to other cowboys. Even were it in good humor, it would be neverending.

Hmm..Maybe we should ask Hamish what is wrong with that picture?

ai dinnae even think aboot whit he might hae as a belt buckle... but ai bet yur richt!

ai think- the boots arr just a nay gae with a kilt... those boots arr meant tae be under trouser legs... an the hat?... well... as others hae said- the twa looks jus dinnae blend....

ai'm sure a turban wuid look jus as silly....

[Kilted KT]

ai dinnae even think aboot whit he might hae as a belt buckle... but ai bet yur richt!

ai think- the boots arr just a nay gae with a kilt... those boots arr meant tae be under trouser legs... an the hat?... well... as others hae said- the twa looks jus dinnae blend....

ai'm sure a turban wuid look jus as silly....

you are right....most cowboys I know would never wear their boots outside their trouser legs...

and a turban?? that would be hilarious!

[davedove]

you are right....most cowboys I know would never wear their boots outside their trouser legs

That's right, only "drugstore cowboys" wear their boots outside their trousers. Some people tuck in the legs so that they can show off their fancy boots, but cowboys wouldn't wear boots like that because you couldn't do any work in them.

[ronstew]

I have seen turbans on RCMP officers in full scartlet regalia and on Canadian soldiers in dress uniforms. I might have seen one on a Seaforth Highlander. Turbans with business suits or casual dress or sporting uniforms are such a common sight around here that you don't notice them.

I think that if a Sikh wanted to wear a kilt, he could look good in it - substituting his kirpan for a sgian dubh.

[macwilkin]

I have seen turbans on RCMP officers in full scartlet regalia and on Canadian soldiers in dress uniforms. I might have seen one on a Seaforth Highlander. Turbans with business suits or casual dress or sporting uniforms are such a common sight around here that you don't notice them.

I think that if a Sikh wanted to wear a kilt, he could look good in it - substituting his kirpan for a sgian dubh.

There are a couple of Sikh tartans, actually. One is the Singh tartan, designed and registered Lord Singh, who lived in Scotland and is quite the Burns devotee:

http://www.sikhspectrum.com/122002/tartan_tsher.htm

http://www.sikhspectrum.com/122002/tartan_scot.htm

A Sikh Regiment in the Indian Army, the heir to Rattray's Sikh Regiment from the days of the British Raj, has pipers that wear the Rattray tartan.

I have a picture of the Canadian journalist, T. Sher Singh, around somewhere, in full formal rig with a Singh tartan kilt and the traditional Turban, but now I can't find it.

The Scots and the Sikhs share many connections due to their service in the British Army the Raj -- same wi' the Gurkhas. And from what my grandfather told me about the Sikh policemen in India during the Second World War, if one was wearing a kilt you would regret laughing at him for sure!

Cheers,

Todd

[Livingston]

ai dinnae even think aboot whit he might hae as a belt buckle... but ai bet yur richt!

ai think- the boots arr just a nay gae with a kilt... those boots arr meant tae be under trouser legs... an the hat?... well... as others hae said- the twa looks jus dinnae blend....

ai'm sure a turban wuid look jus as silly....

Alex Beaton, from Glasgow, Scotland, typically wears his western boots with his kilt while performing at the Long's Peak Highland Games in Estes Park, CO. No western hat and his kilt hose are scrunched down but he's definitely in western boots.

Alex Beaton is a Festival favorite. He is a featured performer at all of the major Scottish festivals, including the Longs Peak Scottish/Irish Highland Festival. He has recorded 15 albums and hosted three full-length musical travelogue videos of Scotland. He is the founder and president of Glenfinnan Music and has made numerous television appearances both in America and Great Britain.
Alex is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and began his career with the Cumberland Three, a popular folk act of the 1960's. He launched a solo career in New York in the late 1960's. His repertoire includes a wide range of musical expression from sensitive ballads to rousing Celtic classics.

[Pour1Malt]

Alex Beaton, from Glasgow, Scotland, typically wears his western boots with his kilt while performing at the Long's Peak Highland Games in Estes Park, CO. No western hat and his kilt hose are scrunched down but he's definitely in western boots.

aye- ai've seen Beaton play at the Queen Mary... an he was in cowboy boots... but he wasnae in a kilt... he was in jeans....


jus because somewan fraim Glasgow wears cooboy boots wi a kilt- doesnae mean ai willnae think it looks silly.... :rolleyes: