Have I become a snob????

[ccook]

I would have appreciated someone giving me pointers on how to better wear a kilt. I just recently found out, by my own research, that I looked like a soup sandwich. I may look intimidating, but I always appreciate a pointer, especially if I look ridiculous. I've been wearing a kilt for games and occasionally for my own gratification for a few years now and I never had any clue that I was looked like a bum.

So snobbery or not, I wish someone would have told me.

[Jack Daw]

Of course, I was just kidding. Frankly, you can dress me up, but once I'm outdoors during a Highland Games, I quickly become disheveled. So, I think I will go back to shirt-sleeves and sweaters for such events until I can figure a way to work my tent without looking like a gorilla in a tuxedo.

[WillowEstate]

A year ago I remember thinking how cool it was that ANYONE in Mobile, Alabama wore a kilt, EVER.

This year, darn me! I can't help but notice that most of the guys in kilts are also wearing "regular" length jackets (the length you'd wear with trousers - I think some here call them "saxon" jackets?), another man I know had a really nice black, kilt-length jacket, but his stockings were touching his knee caps. Another fellow had on sneakers and white gym socks....

At least, if they had the pleats at the back, it's a start! Good luck with your further advice to them for next year.

[KentuckyCeltophile]

A better question would be, "Why are all those people wearing Scottish kilts to an Irish parade?"
At least that's the question I often face in this neck of the woods. I was talking at work about donning the kilt for day. Everyone around me immediately pointed out that Scottish is not Irish, and the kilt isn't worn on St. Paddy's Day. Of course, the same people asked if I "kissed the Blarney stone" whilst in Scotland.