The Importance of knowing the Rules of Kilted Fashion

**Smayniac** · 25th January 09, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

But you can pretend to wake a man who is pretending to sleep, or you could just rifle through his wallet. That'll get his attention.

Only if you are willing to reach into the rubber chicken sporran in your case.

Bob

**sharpdressedscot** · 25th January 09, 06:40 PM

I believe that the only rules that should be written down are:

Don't wear your pleats in the front

Don't call it a skirt

The bottom shouldn't touch the ground

Wear it with pride

I think everything else is up to the wearer. Unless you're going for the "Traditional" look.

**Leprechaun 91** · 25th January 09, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by sharpdressedscot

I believe that the only rules that should be written down are:

Don't wear your pleats in the front

Don't call it a skirt

The bottom shouldn't touch the ground

Wear it with pride

I think everything else is up to the wearer. Unless you're going for the "Traditional" look.

I have to agree here. But the respect should always be given from all sides. You have to be respectful AND others should treat you with respect.

**sharpdressedscot** · 26th January 09, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by Leprechaun-91

I have to agree here. But the respect should always be given from all sides. You have to be respectful AND others should treat you with respect.

Of course, I was just stating my own opinion on this matter.

**Abax** · 27th January 09, 01:29 AM

I break the rules when I wear a kilt where I live. Now what? I should follow the rules for wearing a kilt somewhere else? I think this is the essence of what Jock Scot and others perceive as arrogance.

For me, yes . . . I follow many of the rules for wearing a kilt elsewhere as I traipse about the United States. It makes me feel like *some* of the people I meet might think I'm following the rules. It's also a shortcut for looking good

Abax

**BroosterB1** · 27th January 09, 02:04 AM

The keynote is looking good. Somehow when kilted you just care a bit more...you want to look; well your best. That feeling infuses into the rest of your attitude. I mean who wants to look sloppy when kilted?

Yes, you carry yourself a touch higher, and yes, you are a bit (not alot, a bit) more self aware, but as to rules? You are breaking the biggest rule of them all, conformity! So if it's drum an pipe full dress, or X-lilt with a tee shirt, have at it and loose the dogs of war! If you look good, and you feel good, that should be enough!

**The Wizard of BC** · 27th January 09, 03:29 AM

If I may,,,

There are so many people on this thread getting upset over the word "rules".

May I suggest we change the word in the title to "Conventions"

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

This is what we're really talking about here. We usually agree that some things are just wrong. We usually agree that some things are right or OK.
The entire "Kilt do's and don'ts" thread proves that.

If one person breaks a rule, and others agree that it is an improvement and begin to emulate it then it becomes an accepted "convention".

If one person breaks a rule, and we all laugh at him, then we have agreed it was stupid.

A rule, like a law, is not a rule if it is not enforceable. And as we all know there aren't any Kilt Kops. So there are no "rules" to be broken.

We all police ourselves. We make judgments of others and how they wear the Kilt. We then choose to follow, or not.

Over the last 200 years we Kilt wearers have agreed that a Kilt looks better with the Pleats in the back. We have agreed that a Jacket worn with a Kilt looks better if it is shorter than a Suit Coat. We have agreed that Spats & a Horse Hair Sporran look better on a Pipe Major than they do on the street.

The word "Rule" seems to be one of those button words that upsets the Kilt World. Just as the word "Skirt" seems to.