What's your Halloween plan for your kilt?

**OC Richard** · 17th October 15, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

My tartan kilts are my Scottish Nation's national dress and not fancy dress costume.

I feel much the same way, but there are other Scots... oh my...

**Jock Scot** · 17th October 15, 07:23 AM

What people fail to understand is that the Tartan Army on manoeuvres are an exception to nearly every convention in the universe!

Particularly as they often don't wear their own tartan for the occasion.

**brewerpaul** · 17th October 15, 07:25 AM

My thoughts have always been that my kilts and accroutraments are part of a traditional outfit I don't consider a costume. Not being Scotish, though Jennifer does have some in her ancestry, when I started wearing kilts I took a lot of time to research them and their history. I've also spent many hours here gaining an abundance of information. Bottom line a kilt is a garment of pride and classic dressing so I have never considered it a costume.
With that in mind Jennifer said a co-worker has invited us to a get together at the end of the month, likely Halloween themed and she asked if I was going to wear a kilt. I told her no because then people would think it a costume and not the garment it truly is. She immediately agreed and we decided our medieval garb would suffice. I fashioned a wool kirtel, shirt, stockings and have ghillie mocs that reflect the era to wear. I'll finish the outfit off with my 60 inch claymore. Im sure Jennifer will make something quite nice to wear too.

Personally I don't want people asking why I'm wearing a Halloween costume when I'm kilted. I might have to offend them by asking why they are wearing a bunch of dumbass.

**pbutts** · 17th October 15, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by brewerpaul

Personally I don't want people asking why I'm wearing a Halloween costume when I'm kilted. I might have to offend them by asking why they are wearing a bunch of dumbass.

:-) :-) Ironically I am doing "Scottish Stuff" that day-- we are having a piping clinic that afternoon then I go to work at the college library where I do periodically show up kilted, but, no, not on a night when it might be perceived as a costume.

**Liam** · 17th October 15, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

I cannot help but agree. Bravo!

I would tend to agree here as well. I have in the past donned my "great kilt" as a costume, which is what I guess I consider it to be.

**Mel1721L** · 17th October 15, 11:22 AM

As I wear a kilt most days, the only difference will be my white Druid robes worn over it as I celebrate Samhain, the Celtic New Year. I will leave an offering of food and drink for my deceased ancestors during my ritual. At this time of year as Winter approaches, animals would be brought in from the hills and fields and those unlikely to survive the winter would be slaughtered. At this time of year the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. People used to wear masks so they wouldn't be recognised by the dead. Offerings were left out for the dead so they knew they were not forgotten. As a pagan, I hate what has become of this special time, commercialised just like our Yule festival at mid winter.

**TRWXXA** · 17th October 15, 01:52 PM

I'm gonna go visit a sexy nurses forum, and see if they get offended that women are wearing their traditional uniform as a halloween costume.

An 8 year old trick-or-treated at my house last year dressed as G.I. Joe. I sicced the "stolen valor" people on him.

**Profane James** · 17th October 15, 02:11 PM

LoLz....well played sir.

**Angela Kaye Bodine** · 17th October 15, 02:17 PM

Hi ! I may be my usual, which is a black cat..Basically just cat ears and tail and put cat features on my face.. BUT I will be a Scottish Kitty....I'm just torn on which kilt to wear..I may wear my Cameron Red and Black or my Moffat Clan or do all black My Dark Island Shadow on Black Tartan kilt. My Balmoral hat or my other wool knit hat it looks like a beret a pair of my Doc Martens with tights...I may add a lace bussel I saw at Spirit of Halloween but it goes on the outside ..A Gothic twist to it..All of my kilts mean alot to me, I love them and I love Halloween and my kilts can be part of my Halloween ensemble..That is my plan..Happy Halloween have fun...Angie

**Farmer Jones** · 17th October 15, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Profane James

Slutty highlander

*edit*
For those not within the USA, and this may very well exist elsewhere, there is a phenomenon that exists during Halloween, that any outfit - uniform - ensemble, however mundane or extravagant, qualifies as a Halloween costume if it is made to appear over the top sexually, or 'slutty'

I was completely unaware of that. I was raised in an environment where Halloween meant ghouls, monsters, devils and demons. I think maybe the "over the top sexually" is merely a reflection of a commerce based society, which well understands that sex sell.