What's your Halloween plan for your kilt?

[Thekiltedmohawk]

I really love this thread full of different opinions, perspectives, and debates respectfully.

Here's my opinion on this one.

I'm a full-time kilt wearer.. So, I simply replace my jeans/shorts for my kilts for the months so far. I simply incorporated my kilts to be part of my Halloween ideas.

The way I figure the million of children/adults in America have no problem continue wearing their shorts, their pants/trousers, skirts, dresses, and etc for their Halloween costumes. Why can't we too in our kilts?

For an example. There's going to be a lot of people dress up as the vampires no question... Instead being one of them. We can be the Scottish vampires by replacing the boring black pants with a black kilt for fun.

Kilt itself is not a costume but a garment. That's fine I do get it, but to treat it like as if it's a rare religion sacred object is a bit silly, IMO.

[Jock Scot]

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------------------Kilt itself is not a costume but a garment. That's fine I do get it, but to treat it like as if it's a rare religion sacred object is a bit silly, IMO.

I am in absolute agreement with the above. However, you are missing one salient point which is that the kilt is Scotland's National Attire. No one else's.

Whilst the Scottish voice is a small minority on this website, I cannot help but point out this inconvenient fact to some of the non Scots here and as such, I would respectfully ask that some consideration be given to that fact and where the kilt might be worn, before strapping on your kilt.

[tundramanq]

I am in absolute agreement with the above. However, you are missing one salient point which is that the kilt is Scotland's National Attire. No one else's.

Whilst the Scottish voice is a small minority on this website, I cannot help but point out this inconvenient fact to some of the non Scots here and as such, I would respectfully ask that some consideration be given to that fact and where the kilt might be worn, before strapping on your kilt.

In agreement here. I have always worn a dark solid color Utilikilt etc. as the base of my Halloween garb. I have worn my USAK Sterling casual with a Twilight Zone T-shirt several times, but not for Halloween for the reasoning above. Any other day it is just humorous. But on Halloween the kilt itself is a lot more likely to be seen as costume rather than just part of the whole outfit. This "holiday" is a tricky one. (Pun intended)

The "Where's your bag pipes" wise crack comes from people who view kilts, especially tartan, as "costume". As a full time kilt wearer, for me it is not. It is part of my every day clothing. Although nice, I am not "trolling" for the complements I get.
The Scottish vampire idea is quite good.

[Taskr]

An interesting thread

My halloween tradition has been to visit friends with single malt and share a wee dram. Kilt it will be since they're so accustomed to seeing me in it anyway.

[Leprechaun 91]

Halloween is the only time of the year I refulseto wear my kilt. All too often it is seen as a costume by those not in the know.
I feel that it plays up to that stereotype to wear it on Halloween.
It's now a sacred garment. In fact, I think of them in the same way I think of Jeans. however I don't like to play into the expectations of the non-kilted community.

[Thekiltedmohawk]

Whilst the Scottish voice is a small minority on this website

And valuable respectfully.


I just had a thought at work about this interesting topic.

What's your opinion on us esp the Americans to wear the "Christmas-y theme" kilts of green and red tartans to the home/work holiday parties? To the popular ugly sweater parties, and etc during Christmas weeks?

Is that counted as costume, or still garment?

[Liam]

And valuable respectfully.


I just had a thought at work about this interesting topic.

What's your opinion on us esp the Americans to wear the "Christmas-y theme" kilts of green and red tartans to the home/work holiday parties? To the popular ugly sweater parties, and etc during Christmas weeks?

Is that counted as costume, or still garment?

l have a Clan Claus tartan kilt, which I wear at Christmas, and do so respectfully to honour both my Scottish heritage and the institution of Santa Claus. I would consider wearing that kilt as a joke in an "ugly sweater" mode to degrade both.

[Jock Scot]

And valuable respectfully.


I just had a thought at work about this interesting topic.

What's your opinion on us esp the Americans to wear the "Christmas-y theme" kilts of green and red tartans to the home/work holiday parties? To the popular ugly sweater parties, and etc during Christmas weeks?

Is that counted as costume, or still garment?

Gosh, how long do you want the answer to be! I have to confess that I have no idea what an "ugly sweater party " is, although perhaps I could guess.

I think it would assist your understanding of kilt attire is to understand that there are huge differences between Scottish culture, particularly Highland culture and North America. For example, we in Scotland don't do Kirking the Tartan, St Patricks Day(they might in Glasgow?), belonging to Clan societies, wearing the kilt at any excuse, Halloween and even Christmas and Easter in the Highlands are very low key affairs. Halloween, Christmas and even Burns nights are beginning to get rather more of a profile in the Highlands now though. On the other hand we tend to let rip at New Year!

To help give you a flavour of Scottish Highland thinking on the kilt etc., can I suggest three past threads of mine that you may find illuminating.

1. Two Telling Comments.
2. Food For Thought.
3. Food For Thought 2.(F4T2).

None of these threads pretends to speak for all Scots, but it does give an interesting insight of some Scot's(mostly Highlanders) thinking which may assist you. No's 2 & 3 may be more interesting to you.

To find these threads, you need to be logged in and then if you click on to Jock Scot next to my avatar you will find in the top left margin something like "old threads started by JS" click on there and several pages of my threads will appear. Seek and you will find!