Kilt hose observations

[Alan H]

Actually that's more of a sensible explanation than I've gotten when discussing inexpensive options before (not necessarily options for kilts, or here on the boards.)
As a college student I have found that there are people out there who don't have a clue about the pressures of intermittent poverty and how that affects the value of your clothing, food, vehicles etc...

AMEN.

Not everybody can afford $2500 for a pair of shoes, I don't care HOW good they are.

And you know, when I consider things that REALLY matter.

Like this:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/
I could choose to give some money to Hurrican Katrina relief

or this:
http://savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes
How many millions homeless? How many hundreds of thousands dead? I could choose to give money to Aid to Darfur

Or this:
http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/...html&mode=view
Rampant violence in the Sudan, and the response of the group "Doctors without Borders"...I could give money to Doctors without Borders.

or this:
http://www.avert.org/women.htm
I could give money to help women, worldwide, who are living with the HIV

OR....I could buy myself a pair of $2500 shoes, because after all, only the finest Russian leather will do and everything else is tat.

I just picked a few things here. Maybe they're not to your taste. Perhaps you're more interested in Environmental issues (I am...) or the raging Homeless problem in the USA. Perhaps if you're from Scotland you long to see the Ancient Caledonian Forest grow again, or you could get behind Drug Rehab programs in Glasgow that celebrate Scottish Heritage (http://www.galgael.org/). There are hundreds of things to which we can give time and money that make a REAL difference.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, while I dearly love wearing my kilts, and I enjoy seeing a well-turned out man in formal attire, I simply cannot ever appreciate an outlook that says that only $2500 shoes will "do" and everything else is tat.

The mods may not like this post. So be it. But we need to remember, in this world, that not everybody even has shoes to wear, not everybody has enough to eat, and not everybody has the chance to keep what they work for. Kilts are CLOTHES. Kilt hose are CLOTHES. Shoes are CLOTHES. Kilts and their accessories are fun, handsome, practical, comfortable, and they come to us down a long line of a proud tradition. But we need to remember that they are CLOTHES, and that there are more important things in this world than clothes.

Now, go ahead and rip into me for this post. Say it's not about kilts....fine. But in fact it's completely and entirely about kilts.