What kind of utilikilt is that?

[andyfg]

Last week I was at the locally famous Ithaca Festival parade. I saw a chap in a utilikilt . . . unusaul sighting, so I went over and introduced myself.
"Good to see a fellow kilt wearer," I said.
"Yes," he replied, "but what kind of utilikilt is that you're wearing?"
"Oh, this is a traditional wool kilt in my family tartan."
My new friend looked puzzled.
I came away from the encounter with the impression that utilikilts were the "real thing." My tartan kilt was suspect! Funny old world.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I wonder if it was because your Fitzgibbon kilt is box pleated and he wasn't used to seeing that kind of pleating in a traditional kilt? I've never had my work compared to a Utilikilt before!
M

[Finn]

As a devout UK man (soon to have a USAK Army tartan), let me say, "D'OH!!!"
Sorry!

[Nick]

There's a first time for everything, I guess.

It used to say on the UK website that they didn't do tartan Utilikilts at all, I don't know if it still does. Maybe this gent's only exposure to kilts at all has been UKs.

[andyfg]

I wonder if it was because your Fitzgibbon kilt is box pleated and he wasn't used to seeing that kind of pleating in a traditional kilt? I've never had my work compared to a Utilikilt before!
M

Not sure he saw the pleats Matt. It was a "front on encounter," so to speak. He looked genuinely puzzled.

[GMan]

Different angle here, all Kilts are utilitarian, maybe he just got a bit tongue tied. Who knows.

[David Dalglish]

Silly Boy

[Tattoo Bradley]

It's a little sad, though not surprising, the amount of ignorance the guy displayed. Pity.

[beloitpiper]

Wow, that's unexpected. I don't even know how I would've responded. Maybe he was just dumbfounded by the beauty of an actaul kilt!

[escherblacksmith]

I have worn my black utilikilt to work and had someone ask me if it was my families tartan . . . .

I laughed and said it should be.

Of course it was possible they were on something and thought they saw patterns .. .