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Do you notice a difference?
Good day all,
I was at the mall yesterday wasting time withe my wife and I was wearing a Navy digital camo kilt with a military sweater and combat boots.
Now in this same mall when I have worn a tartan based kilt I get all sorts of looks and comments but while wearing the modern/casual kilt now where near the interest. I've noticed this other places to when wearing modern kilts no one really looks twice but a tartan based one... look out!
Jim
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People are like bass...attracted to the rattle and flash...LOL!
Did you make the Navy digital camo? If so where did you find the fabric....I am stil active duty, and can see an opportunity to aggravate some fairly stuffy officers...:twisted:
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I have noticed the same thing. I get comments from the tartan kilts but few from contemporary kilts. I assume this has to do with people's expectations. They recognize the tartan kilt and many can relate to it in some way. Take away the tartan and they are not sure what your have on. Of my contemporary kilts the box pleat Alphakilt has received the most comments. Zero comments from my denim or leather Kilt.
Mike
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
People are like bass...attracted to the rattle and flash...LOL!
Did you make the Navy digital camo? If so where did you find the fabric....I am stil active duty, and can see an opportunity to aggravate some fairly stuffy officers...:twisted:
Here is the kilt -
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9203/nwukilt.jpg
One of the forum members made it for me in trade. Not sure where he got the material.
You really want to have fun? Show up to muster like :evil: -
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9959/nwufull.jpg
Jim
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Originally Posted by Drac
Good day all,
I was at the mall yesterday wasting time withe my wife ...I get all sorts of looks and comments ....
Jim
Here's a comment: You went to a mall on Christmas Eve? ... On purpose?
:lol:
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Actually was pretty barren. It was a Friday after all even if it was Christams Eve. We went early in the morning and were gone by just after lunch.
Jim
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
People are like bass...attracted to the rattle and flash...LOL!
Did you make the Navy digital camo? If so where did you find the fabric....I am stil active duty, and can see an opportunity to aggravate some fairly stuffy officers...:twisted:
Not all officers are stuffy!! :-)
Maybe we could all get them and write a point paper requesting an update to the current uniform regs?
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Originally Posted by Drac
Here is the kilt -
One of the forum members made it for me in trade. Not sure where he got the material.
You really want to have fun? Show up to muster like :evil: -
Jim
Out-------Standing! I absolutely hate that uniform...I Made Chief right before it came out, and they took my working khaki away from me...Then when we griped MCPON had the nerve to say, "a Sailor works for his anchors, not for the uniform..." ---- that...As you can imagine it torqued me off a bit, him telling me what I worked for for 16 years..hence my retirement in August...That, among other reasons..:twisted:
I would seriously love to show up at morning quarters like that...It'd sure put hitch in someone's britches...and the kilt is certainly an improvement over the cargo pants...LOL..too bad they don't have a Glengarry option...digi camo with Navy tartan band...Hooyah!
Hmm..Chiefs anchor for a kilt pin...
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[QUOTE=Drac;937174]Here is the kilt -
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9203/nwukilt.jpg
One of the forum members made it for me in trade. Not sure where he got the material.
You really want to have fun? Show up to muster like :evil: -
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9959/nwufull.jpg
Jim[/QUOTE
WOW! I would pay to be present at that uniform inspection!!
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Chiefs Anchor for a kilt pin... How about Craftmaster, ESWS and the garrison cap Anchor in a stack with the Anchor on the top ala UniRegs. And I don't believe that anyone wants to hear an old retired CPO gripe about the water camoflague uniform or the Ensign who got dressed in the dark uniform. At least we finally have a firefighting ensemble that will protect the firefighter.
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Originally Posted by Spartan Tartan
Not all officers are stuffy!! :-)
Maybe we could all get them and write a point paper requesting an update to the current uniform regs?
True...My obstinate nautical terror program is specifically targeted at pinheads...not all pinheads are officers, and not all officers are pinheads! :D
Your idea of a point paper is probably a good one..but won't be too effective..the rapid progression of risk aversion in the khaki ranks prevents petty much of anyone from getting anything interesting done...also a reason to retire..besides, I don't have a JayGee that I can shanghai into writing it at the moment..:cool:
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
People are like bass...attracted to the rattle and flash...LOL!
Did you make the Navy digital camo? If so where did you find the fabric....I am stil active duty, and can see an opportunity to aggravate some fairly stuffy officers...:twisted:
You can get camo fabric from Rockywoods.
http://www.rockywoods.com/Fabrics-Ki...n-Camo-Fabrics
Mike
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
...besides, I don't have a JayGee that I can shanghai into writing it at the moment..:cool:
LOL! Well said.
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Originally Posted by Bill aka Mole
Chiefs Anchor for a kilt pin... How about Craftmaster, ESWS and the garrison cap Anchor in a stack with the Anchor on the top ala UniRegs. And I don't believe that anyone wants to hear an old retired CPO gripe about the water camoflague uniform or the Ensign who got dressed in the dark uniform. At least we finally have a firefighting ensemble that will protect the firefighter.
You are correct, Chief! We should come up with a thread for squids to gripe!
You know what they say about a griping Sailor!
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
You are correct, Chief! We should come up with a thread for squids to gripe!
You know what they say about a griping Sailor!
A happier Sailor you never met! Cheers!
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A thread for kilted Sailors would be a great idea!
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
You are correct, Chief! We should come up with a thread for squids to gripe!
You know what they say about a griping Sailor!
Put him in bed with the Captain's daughter? Oh wait that's a drunken one, and earl-lie in the morning at that.
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Originally Posted by Bill aka Mole
Chiefs Anchor for a kilt pin... How about Craftmaster, ESWS and the garrison cap Anchor in a stack with the Anchor on the top ala UniRegs.
I am looking for a large Sea Bee's pin. I maybe an ET but after working with PHIB I faught to get back to the Bees when transferrred out. Now I'm back to NMCB and hoping to be with them when I get my 20+. Most of the pins I've found are to small for using.
Now away from the Navy (sorry I derailed it) and -
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:3tY2jnnNF-eHcM:
Jim
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Drac.... the obvious reason nobody was giving you glances... duh IT'S CAMO
nobody saw you!
sharp looking outfit!
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[QUOTE=Oldhiker;937207]Drac.... the obvious reason nobody was giving you glances... duh IT'S CAMO
nobody saw you!QUOTE]
Good point.
Jim
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I'm over in Las Vegas, NV. out and about yesterday on the strip yesterday (Arizona tartan). Only comments I got were about my Z Coil shoes...repeated questions about the spring shoes. Save one very intoxicated woman who came up to me and literally pressed her charms against my arm and breathed fire in my face asking where SHE could get a kilt like that. I told her, but I'm quite sure she'll have no recollection tomorrow.
Its still weird to see people approaching, gear up for a kilt comment, and get a shoe question...
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Out and about kilted in Cali...
I went out kilted for the first time since we've lived here in Monterey yesterday. I didn't seem to get as many stares as usual when I was up in Northern NY. I heard one woman or girls...didn't turn to see who it was...proclaim "Is that guy wearing a kilt? Yes...THAT'S AWESOME!!!"...So apparently I made somebody's day. I was busy in trying to get my vehicle pulled up to the front door of Bestbuy at the moment to get something loaded into the back, otherwise I might have had the opportunity to strike up a great conversation with a beautiful (or at least that's how I picture her...) woman. Ah well...
Also got a very friendly smile from the lady standing behind us in line at the customer service desk too.
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I really hadn't thought about it before, but yes -- I've received far more notice and comments when wearing tartan kilts than solid-color ones, though in both cases the comments I do get are almost all enthusiastically positive.
Yesterday (Christmas Eve) I was out with a lady friend of some 25 years in Berkeley for a movie and dinner, since my SO is in Seattle visiting family for Christmas 'til Sunday morning; and I decided to try "kilting for the season".
Chose my Stillwater Leatherneck for its green, red, gold, and blue colors, with a green chamois shirt from L.L. Bean. Added navy hose with red garter ties, navy lambswool v-neck sweater-vest, dark-blue Ryan Ross bonnet; and black dress shoes, black FB "Duin Uasal" sporran, and black lambskin Stillwater kilt-cut jacket. (Oh, and my Rab Gordon sgian dubh.)
The ensemble was definitely a "hit" everywhere we went. :cool: In line for tickets at the movie theater one guy who was there with his boyfriend asked, in what sounded like a British accent, if this is what Scots wear for Christmas -- he clearly "got" the "seasonal theme" concept. I was about to answer that it's what former Marines who like kilts wear, but my companion jumped in with "It's what HE wears for Christmas!" :D
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Originally Posted by Mike in Dayton
I have noticed the same thing. I get comments from the tartan kilts but few from contemporary kilts. I assume this has to do with people's expectations. They recognize the tartan kilt and many can relate to it in some way. Take away the tartan and they are not sure what your have on.
Mike
I don't have any 'contemporary' kilts, but I think this is a pretty accurate assessment.
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To stay on the topic, I have noticed the same thing while wearing Black Watch after dark at the zoo during the "Lights before Christmas" event. Since the majority of the lighting is in the trees, ground level was fairly dark and I'm sure that the tartan was nearly all black to those who did see me.
My Edzell might have been a better choice as it is a lighter color than either Black Watch or National Fallen Firefighter Foundation (NFFF) tartans. for reference, NFFF is black based while Rocky's (USA Kilts) Firefighters Memorial is red based.
Only two gents approached me about my kilt; both were interested as to where I had purchased it.
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
You know what they say about a griping Sailor!
Is there any other kind? :cool:
(I joke; my brother is an LCDR and I'm a veteran Marine, so you can see how family gatherings go! :lol:)
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Originally Posted by Zardoz
I don't have any 'contemporary' kilts,...
Neither do I...and I had to make a stop yesterday to pick up a couple last minute items on the way to the family gathering while wearing my tartan kilt (Macdonell of Keppoch), and though the store was jam packed with people, and the stares were obvious, not one comment made.
Some were obviously quite uncomfortable standing near a kilted gentleman too....go figure! :?
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https://secure.sportkilt.com/images/...421274_lrg.jpg
Sport kilt makes athe navy Digital $139.00 plus options.
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Cool kilt.
It has been my experience also that a traditional tartan kilt draws much more attention than a contemporary kilt, even in Scotland.
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A few weeks ago, while Christmas shopping, I was at a mall on the way back home from Ikea, and it seems most of the reactions were at a distance. I was in my OD Green UK Original, and probably a dozen times, I noticed a little kid point at me, and ask their parent (usually boys and their dads) something, presumably "why's he in a skirt?"
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The smurf-o-flage kilt needs a sporran that doubles as a personal floatation device.
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Originally Posted by BoldHighlander
Some were obviously quite uncomfortable standing near a kilted gentleman too....go figure! :?
Another reason to wear the kilt...elbow room!:cool:
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Originally Posted by Mike M.
The smurf-o-flage kilt needs a sporran that doubles as a personal floatation device.
You laugh...the new rubber ducky pfd's are dark navy blue and look sort o like a sporran...
Still hate that uniform.
Smurf-o-flage..nice!
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Originally Posted by Drac
Good day all,
I was at the mall yesterday wasting time withe my wife and I was wearing a Navy digital camo kilt with a military sweater and combat boots.
Now in this same mall when I have worn a tartan based kilt I get all sorts of looks and comments but while wearing the modern/casual kilt now where near the interest. I've noticed this other places to when wearing modern kilts no one really looks twice but a tartan based one... look out!
Jim
Maybe no one saw you because of the camo.
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Originally Posted by Llwyd
Another reason to wear the kilt...elbow room!:cool:
:lol: :lol: :wink:
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