Mall question: Are You Scottish?

**Robin** · 27th August 06, 02:04 AM

and I knew his train had left the tracks and was now going wild through the forest of his mind, mowing down trees as it went. His face went totally blank and he looked like he had just entered the Twilight Zone so I just smiled and walked away with my pleats waving good-bye.

Brilliant!!!

**glengall1** · 27th August 06, 03:58 AM

This always amazes me about the kilt. People genuinely do think that you have to be Scottish to want to wear it.

To me it is like somebody walking up to me while I am weraing my jeans and asking me if I'm am a cowboy

Kilts are a multi-cultural, multi racial wonderful piece of clothing that this forum proves should be worn by all.

**Graham** · 27th August 06, 06:34 AM

Your answer was a good one! not a reply I can really use so well as you in Australia, even though most of my kilts are either American or Canadian!

**David Thornton** · 27th August 06, 08:02 AM

Actually, I think most over react to these situations.

One, the guy probably never saw a non trad kilt and

Two, he didn't want to offend by saying nice skirt and

Three, he was curious enough to start a conversation

I say lighten up and politely explain how you feel. Stop being so DAMN SENSITIVE. If you like a kilt, wear one, but stop all this boo hooing about someone elses view.

I hosted 56 builders at a sporting clays shoot in a rural Kentucky town. At a club of good old boys who I have shot with or hunted with for years. I wore a camo kilt (thanks to my benefactor). Very few had seen me in a kilt as we are not in the same social circle. Non had seen a non trad as I just got it. Every one of them had questions, most were nice enough to ask me. Some thought it was a skirt, and they said that it was not recognizable as a kilt witout explanation. Some really never tought of anyone other than a Scot wearing a kilt. But, no one was derogitory.

And this whole blue jean/cowboy thing is bull. Kilts ARE Scottish, everyone wears jeans.

David

**kiltimabar** · 27th August 06, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by David Thornton

And this whole blue jean/cowboy thing is bull. Kilts ARE Scottish, everyone wears jeans.

David

Not everyone used to; at one time jeans were freighted with as much symbolism, myth, and image as kilts.

Once only worn by miners, cowboys, and other hardy workers, by the time of James Dean in the '50's they had acquired an image of toughness, individuality, independence--hence rebellion. Banned as school attire, they were not considered proper dress in social situations. They were denounced by the Communist Party in the Soviet Union as spawn of capitalist society(until the authorities had to give up and declare them symbolic of workers' struggle). Not until the protest generation of the '60's did they achieve the ubiquitousness they have today.

Not so different from the track kilts are on today, is it? We can declare victory when kilts are seen as not just a Scottish thing, as jeans are no longer seen as just cowboy attire.

**Blu (Ontario)** · 27th August 06, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by kiltimabar

... Not until the protest generation of the '60's did they achieve the ubiquitousness they have today. Not so different from the track kilts are on today, is it?

Is it?... I don't particularly see a kilts rebellion or protest going on anywhere.

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**Barclay** · 27th August 06, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)

Is it?... I don't particularly see a kilts rebellion or protest going on anywhere.

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Except maybe the malls in Phoenix.

Originally Posted by David Thornton

I say lighten up and politely explain how you feel. Stop being so DAMN SENSITIVE. If you like a kilt, wear one, but stop all this boo hooing about someone elses view.

Aye. Well said.

Like it or not, there is an affiliation between kilts and Scotland in the minds of most people.

**macwilkin** · 27th August 06, 03:37 PM

We can declare victory when kilts are seen as not just a Scottish thing, as jeans are no longer seen as just cowboy attire.

Of course, there are those of us who wear the kilt because it is a "Scottish thing", and are proud of the history and tradition behind it.

Regards,

Todd

**michael steinrok** · 27th August 06, 08:30 PM

Hey at least he thought you were Scottish. Some jack@$$ actually mused out loud about my sexual orientation. But he wqas old so I let it slide off my back,and ignored him. Ah Ignorance, how blissful you are to the weak-minded.