What's your Halloween plan for your kilt?

[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!