Is that a real kilt?!

**Tiny** · 7th November 10, 01:50 AM

The other day while in line at the grocer one of the clerks asked me if my kilt was a real kilt. I looked at him funny for a moment then asked him what he said? He repeated himself "Is that a real kilt?"

I couldn't really understand how it couldn't be a real kilt. so I replied "Nope its all done with smoke and mirrors."

After he looked at me confused for a moment I told him it was a real kilt to which he smiled and went back to work.

Still not sure what the defining factor would have been to make my kilt real or just another dream.

**Bill aka Mole** · 7th November 10, 02:12 AM

Okay, just what does a non-real kilt look like? I consider my 2 PV kilts as real as my woolen one. Interesting question.

**Maclachlan** · 7th November 10, 02:44 AM

Maybe he was still thinking Halloween when he asked....

**Jock Scot** · 7th November 10, 02:51 AM

Now that is a good question and I await the replies with interest.

**The Thing** · 7th November 10, 03:21 AM

I guess lots of people have never seen a real kilt or kilt wearer in the flesh and are abit awe taken by them. I mean just think when we see another kilty just going about their business how excited it makes us, now multiply that feeling by x amount for a non kilty.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 7th November 10, 03:56 AM

Ha! I love your answer.

I have found that often when people in situations like that (at the grocery store, etc.) ask me if I'm wearing a "real kilt" they mean to ask whether I'm wearing anything underneath it.

**Schiehallion** · 7th November 10, 04:18 AM

I think it may show their ignorance as they come to see a 'real kilt' for the first time. There are so many different renditions of a kilt these days.

**MacMillan's son** · 7th November 10, 04:44 AM

My guess would be that they were asking whether that was a wool kilt made in Scotland. I think many, away from this site, would define "a real kilt" as such.

**KD Burke** · 7th November 10, 05:55 AM

Is it just me, or did anyone else think "Here's your sign!"

**Bill aka Mole** · 7th November 10, 06:07 AM

Just thought of this one: Maybe the clerk was thinking about whether your kilt was a proper, dress-up type kilt as oppossed to a economy model that may have been introduced to the clerk as a Pub-crawling or Hash House Harrier type of kilt. Not that the later two kilts are any less of a kilt IMHO.