Too Traditional?

[McElmurry]

Just something for you all to think about. THCD is not all tweeds, tattersall shirts and club ties you know. On the rare occasion that it is not raining and the temperature is a tad over freezing it is not unknown for the traditional kilted gentleman to go bare chested, bare foot and without a sporran, when strolling along a beach with the girl friend, wife or children in Scotland! It will undoubtedly be a wool kilt and sand and salt will attach themselves to the cloth. A dunking in freshwater, a burn with fresh running water is best, for an hour before hanging the kilt to dry from a handy tree will solve the cleaning problem.

An uncommon set of events in Scotland, I grant you, but in the right circumstance it is one hundred percent THCD and wearing much more would indeed be overdoing things.

I have been thinking about this post for the last day or so and there is something I am still not clear on. I understand the walk on the beach with the girl, and the wind blowing salt water and sand onto the kilt, and the dunking of the kilt in fresh water and hanging out to dry. But what, pray tell, is the “traditional” way of passing the time whilst the kilt soaks and then dries.