Are we Metrosexuals?

[Highland Logan]

The funniest part of that thread is one guy saying he wants to wear Ledehosen with his Scout shirt and another saying he wants to dress up like a Tennessee mountain man.

What ever happened to "wear the uniform you're given"? So many people exspect to be able to dress anyway they want, rather than how they are exspected to. So many now think they have a right to personal style.. When you work for someone else you do as you're told... the man that pays the piper, calls the tune!

Frank

[PGH]

What ever happened to "wear the uniform you're given"? So many people exspect to be able to dress anyway they want, rather than how they are exspected to. So many now think they have a right to personal style.. When you work for someone else you do as you're told... the man that pays the piper, calls the tune!

Frank

Well, the lederhosen guy and mountain man were gently ribbing the kiltie. It does get the point across though, if BSA says kilts are ok in the USA just because some Scouters want to wear them then it would be tough to say no to other groups.

And, of course, the uniform IS one of the methods of Scouting. It isn't a uniform if there are umpteen variations to suit individual wishes.

[MuffinMan]

But PGH, National has never ruled about the wearing of a Kilt in scouting, their continued silence is the reason so many of us will wear Kilts at various functions.

MM

[george7]

I prefer the term highland warrior. Some are metro, but I think the kilt has nothing to do with that.

[O'Callaghan]

On a Boy Scout forum there is a discussion about boys and leaders wearing Kilts, there are always those who really don't know their history and claiming if don't have the blood you can't wear a Tartan, I usually ignore them, but the last poster ask if we are part a metrosexual thing. Why does it always go down that alley, maybe a feeble attempt at a joke.

MM

In the BSA (USA) the kilt is not considered uniform, but wearing non-uniform trousers is so common that it is conceptually no different to wear a kilt than to wear blue jeans instead of the uniform green trousers, which is done all the time.

In the SA (UK) you do have to have the blood to wear the kilt, at least as uniform, except if you actually belong to a unit from Scotland or N. Ireland, and then you don't. Tartan for Scots and saffron only for Irish blood, and for units outside Scotland the tartan must be your own clan's or else MacLaren.

Editted to add: Any scout anywhere in the world may wear Clan McLaren tartan if they aren't in uniform.

Not much room for argument in that, is there?

As for metrosexuals, I'd say it has nothing to do with whether you wear the kilt or not. You could be as foppish or not in either the kilt or trews, it makes no difference. Just put me down as heterosexual, with an H.

[sharpdressedscot]

Metrosexual??!! I think not.

[Sionnach]

Maybe the kilted community will get a segment on Southpark!

[GDub]

Metrosexual? I'm just sexual. No pigeonholing prefixes necessary.

[JakobT]

Since a lot of people have difficulty with the distinction between a kilt and an ordinary skirt, the issue of gender and sexuality will rear its head once in a while. This shouldn't really surprise us. Indeed, it's part of the fascination with the kilt as a garment, and, I'd venture to say, no small part of its appeal to women. As most of us appreciate the latter a great deal, we should take the downside in our stride. If we're not prepared to stand a few silly comments now and then, we might as well stick to trousers.

[Iolaus]

Being "Metro" entails more than just what you wear. However, as it applies to attire, some of us are and some of us aren't; and most of those that are will never recognize it in themselves.