The Kilt Kops

[Irish Jack O'Brian]

There seems to have been a lot of posts recently about "The right way to wear a kilt." or "What is or is not proper with the kilt."

Thank you, Steve, for posting this. However, before we start singing KumBaYah, let me go down to the bottom of the pronouncement and I think, the heart of the matter:

We are a community of kilt wearers. We share and respect the kilt in all its forms and in all the ways it can be worn. Of course we will sometimes disagree among ourselves but when someone outside of our community attempts to tell a member that they are wrong or cannot wear the kilt we band together in support.

This is what I think the real problem is - not that there are some who tell us the right way to wear the kilt or what is proper with the kilt, but Do You Have The RIGHT To Wear The Kilt. (Raphael and Father Bill and Cowher have mentioned the harm of this dictum.)

There are those on this forum who think there are people who do not have the right to wear the kilt, based on their pedigree. Little squabbles over hose color and kilt length are minor fashion decisions, but to be told that you are not worthy to wear the kilt because of your ancestors, this is my version of the true Kilten Polizei.