Food For Thought Two(F4T2)

[Jock Scot]

On the whole I don't think I was too surprised at the answers given, but I am surprised at the strength of feeling from the "youngsters" over "their" kilt. As the kilt is rarely, actually never might be better, a topic of in depth conversation this strength of feeling has slipped under my radar and the more I think about it, the more I think it is to do with the new found vigour on thoughts about independence. I shall have to enquire further.

The general comment that 110(plus the gang of 9) Scots(ooops sorry, forgot to subtract the 10 non Scots!) is hardly a basis to say "this is what Scotland says" and it is true it is not and until and unless the whole of Scotland is asked those questions that criticism will always hold true. It does all depend, I suppose, on who you ask too, however, there is no getting away from the fact that views and opinions have been asked for, albeit in a controlled(well sort of) and amateurish way, and replies have been given and whether we like them or not, they are what they are.

Going onto Matt's thoughts about the youngsters being "hot" on practical kilt wearing and "not so hot" on the theory. Well yes that appears to be true, but thinking about it I think it runs deeper than that. We in Scotland just don't delve into the kilt theory that we do on this website. Until I joined this website, I had no idea about box pleats, pleating to the stripe/sett, belt loops, kilt straps, etc.etc. and I doubt that very few kilt wearing Scots of any age or generation, do/did either.

I think Micric has drawn a very reasonable conclusion from all this. No one is going to stop the kilt being worn outwith Scotland, its too late, and who knows, many Scots, perhaps, don't care one way or the other------some obviously do care-------so wearing your kilt wherever in the world you may be, with respect, would be a super compliment to Scotland.

AA and others, wear your kilt in Scotland! You are a free man to choose what you wear and Scotland is fortunate enough to have the freedom to allow people to choose. You and others on this website have the cumption to be sensitive to local opinion and I have no doubts that local opinion has the sense(they have for the last umpteen decades anyway)to indulge other people's views. Hospitality does after all run very deep in Scots culture.To illustrate the point, we had 10 non Scots wearing the kilt at the "DO" the other night and I know that they were made very welcome, even their veiws were welcome, and I know for a certain fact that one of them is going to have a kilt made! Hummm, shows what he thinks of the survey!!!!

Jeff, for goodness sake get a move on, my whisky supply is running low!