Do we shoot ourselves in the foot?

[RockyR]

Great Magnus

You might want to show him the normal dress in Fiji for men. According to a Fiji web site, this is also the main clothing they wear to church.. The Sulu.

[Rigged]

One day I was driving home and a fellow was walking down the street wearing a white unbifurcated garment that was so striking that I wanted to ask him what it was called and where he got it. It looked like a Saudi Galabyya, but I'd never seen one cut like it before.

I didn't think, "skirt" or "dress", I just thought, "Wow, that's amazing! I wonder what it's called and where I can get one."

If I saw the guy in the above picture someplace in public, I'd ask him what his garment was called. It looks much like a sarong, but I wouldn't make that assumption.

But it seems that most of us Americans are culturally provincial.

I went to college with a young woman who met someone from another country. She didn't know that people from other countries don't speak English. She thought he didn't know how to talk.

[Rob Wright]

Great pic Magnus. Glad your enjoying your new found freedom. Isn't great being an individual in the sea of corporate sameness?

Keep up the good work!

Rob Wright

[macwilkin]

Soldiers in the Fiji Defence Force still wear sulus -- I've seen them at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

http://www.fijifvb.gov.fj/about/visitor/attire.shtml

I believe there were also Samoans and/or other Pacific islanders who wore sulus who served with the USMC against the Japanese. Have to do some checking on that one.

Cheers,

T.

[John in Texas]

You guys will love this. When I was in Potstown,Pa. a few weeks ago for my fiance's High School reunion I went kilted whenever we went out. A couple of her mothers friends took us to brunch at a swanky Inn.I had come from the buffet when I saaw this lady walking quite rapidly into the next room stating quite loudly "Theres a man in a KILT out there!" to which my lady replied after her,"No, that's MY man in a kilt out here". Too damn fun. I got a LOT of complements that trip, and no insults, in fact the only person with the balls to come up and ask me about the kilt was , you guessed it, a woman.

Kilts are 1% tartan fabric and 99% ATTITUDE!

[Anthony]

Something I use to tell guys when they thought they wanted to join teh club, and it comes to mind often when reading the post here;

"The Patch doesn't make the Man,

The Man makes the Patch"

substitute Kilt for patch.