Anybody else doing Easter Kilted?

**OC Richard** · 25th April 11, 04:01 AM

So I wore my kilt (Isle of Skye, with those great liturgical colours, with everything as in my avatar) when piping at the Easter Sunrise Service but I went home and changed into khaki slacks and a Glen Plaid tweed "Saxon" jacket before going to the 7am service at my own church.

Why? Maybe it seems odd, but at my own church I would feel like I'm being ostentatious or attention-seeking were I to wear Highland Dress there.

(Though many people there have seen me in kilts, as I play at the church's St Patrick's Day party every year.)

**Galician** · 25th April 11, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by Father Bill

Wonder how it will fit under my alb etc.

I had the same dilemma. In addition to serving as a Eucharistic minister, I am the official MC for my parish, and wore an alb for the entire Triduum. Easter Sunday there were no acolytes, so it was easy. I just had to tell myself what to do.

**Galician** · 25th April 11, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

So I wore my kilt (Isle of Skye, with those great liturgical colours, with everything as in my avatar) when piping at the Easter Sunrise Service but I went home and changed into khaki slacks and a Glen Plaid tweed "Saxon" jacket before going to the 7am service at my own church.

Why? Maybe it seems odd, but at my own church I would feel like I'm being ostentatious or attention-seeking were I to wear Highland Dress there.

(Though many people there have seen me in kilts, as I play at the church's St Patrick's Day party every year.)

Richard, I had that exact same feeling one year, when I had been invited to Christmas Eve dinner by a friend who is Scots-Canadian. I had thought of wearing my kilt, but I was going to be attending service at a church near his home and didn't want to draw attention to myself by being kilted.
I got to the church, only to see a gentleman in FULL Highland grear in the first row of seats. Turned out that he was the Italian-named pastor's first cousin through said pastor's mother.

**BroosterB1** · 25th April 11, 07:58 AM

OK, guess everybody at church is so accustomed to me wearing my kilt I got nary a comment. One older lassy gave me a wolf whistle and well that was it.

The only other comment I got was from my wife, who I quote said "Well you look nice, those hose go quite well with the kilt and the shirt"

..... After all these years of her fussing about my wearing kilts she snuggled up to me and said "well you are different, but your my different" ...Ah the Power of the Kilt!

**fluter** · 25th April 11, 07:49 PM

BroosterB1: well done!

a quick-n-dirty photo of my Easter outfit (not counting the cassock, which layers over a T-shirt:

Easter2011 by arcturus1997, on Flickr]

The charcoal hose are intended to be sub fusc for the service. Lovat green would have been my choice otherwise. A cotton seersucker bow tie in pastel stripes seemed appropriate to the season. The idea of a seersucker jacket cut for kilt wear just seems better and better.

**MacMillans son** · 25th April 11, 08:52 PM

Oh heck, any excuse!

My Easter attire in Grass Valley Ca.

**Mike_Oettle** · 28th April 11, 02:17 PM

Frustration! I had to go kiltless at Easter because I am awaiting delivery of a sporran strap.
The brown leather sporran I was given has a chain which is too short, and the white rabbit skin one I was lent has a chain which has broken once too often.
I decided to forget about chains and go for plain leather (like the strap I had with my army pouch). I actually ordered one in brown and one in black, but it’s been three weeks now and there’s no sign of them!
Will have to phone the supplier in the morning. He’s also supposed to be sending me another pair of kilt hose.
The weather has turned cold now, so there are warm clothes I have had to avoid that I can now wear with the kilt.
Pictures are coming . . .
Regards,
Mike