I hate things that hang from my waist

[Jock Scot]

Well Nighthawk, PHEW! If you were to wear your grandfather's kilt with a sporran then that would make it a kilt, good and proper!

[Nighthawk]

Well Nighthawk, PHEW! If you were to wear your grandfather's kilt with a sporran then that would make it a kilt, good and proper!

So to clarify things a little- my mom's dad was the Irishman, and my dad's mom the Scot. You say "PHEW!" and from his reputation at the local German bar that he used to take my German grandmother to, you should! We went there after his funeral and the owner bought us all a round in his memory. He was not actually a violent man- he was just a stereotypical Irishman, full of a love of whiskey and shinanagans! He was just a "take no guff" kind of person- which my mother tells me is where I get my attitude from! "You're as bad as your grandpa!" (It was the shinanagans part that got him his reputation... )

Ted with the greatest respect to you and others, I honestly don't consider anything other than a traditional style kilt, worn in the traditional way, be that tartan,plain, or, tweed, to be a kilt. What ever else is worn, pretending to be a kilt, really does not count as a kilt, to my mind at least. That does not mean that the wearing of the traditional style kilt should be solely restricted to the Scots though. I do wish that some one somewhere could come up with a fair and reasonable name for these modern forms of dress to avoid all this confusion and until some one does this unsatisfactory state of affairs will exist.

Way I see it, cousin- it's all a matter of different points of views. I say, we all agree to disagree. If we all thought the same, the world would be a dull plave, indeed!!

[BroosterB1]

Well said, old boy, well said!