soutar's convention

[DWFII]

but help me here...kilts and shoemaking...just common sense, the current kilt boom, or something I'm missing? Ron

Ron,

No immediate connection. Just so happens that a number of us have Scots ancestry and it has become a bit of a tradition (our tradition) to celebrate St. Crispin's day with a toast...single malt, of course...and it just naturally follows that if you've got 'em, wear 'em. Next year there might be several more. And several of the lasses in the group are Scots, as well. Now that you mention it, however, I wonder if there might be something in the blood?

Of course "soutar' is a Scots word for shoemaker...as is "snab."