Food For Thought Two(F4T2)

[Sir William]

Well someone said "never say never" and perhaps they were right, so shall I just say that the likely-hood of me doing F4T3 in the future is on the slim side of slim.

I've made similar promises to myself as well - and sometimes even kept them!

As I said, if you should ever become so inclined again to make another survey.

It would be difficult to make an accurate comment about those not wearing the kilt the other evening. There were a few there that I know have worn the kilt in the past and did not. There were others that I knew, that to the best of my knowledge, have never worn the kilt. Also present were English, German, French, Polish, Australian and perhaps others and most of them would fairly naturally, I think, would not have worn the kilt. It is/was no big deal one way or the other.

I had the impression from your previous post that the majority of attendees were Scots in dinner jackets instead of kilts. Then again, it might be interesting to see if these non-Scots were kilt-wearers or aspiring kilt wearers such as found here on XMTS. I'm reminded of a Canadian friend of Polish extraction (no Scots at all) who served in the Canadian Black Watch so he could wear a kilt.

[Jock Scot]

I had the impression from your previous post that the majority of attendees were Scots in dinner jackets instead of kilts. Then again, it might be interesting to see if these non-Scots were kilt-wearers or aspiring kilt wearers such as found here on XMTS. I'm reminded of a Canadian friend of Polish extraction (no Scots at all) who served in the Canadian Black Watch so he could wear a kilt.

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You impression is correct most of those wearing a dinner jacket were Scots with the rest being made up of foreigners.

I did have a long conversation with a German guest who really wanted to wear the kilt to the evening do. His wife was also very keen on the idea, so our family put their collective best feet forward, baring in mind Highland hospitality traditions, and rustled up a complete evening kilt outfit for him to wear and even fitted him pretty well. By all accounts they had a great time and looked good.

Interestingly, when he called in to return some of my kit that he had borrowed after the event, he made the comment that whilst they had a great time(and I believe him) he would not wear the kilt again as he did not think it was right. I did not know the results of the survey then, so nor could he and I don't know if he picked up "the vibes" during the survey time---I hope not!-----but that is what he thought.