What do you call these kilts?

[BoldHighlander]

There really isn't a shoulder strap with with them, other than in "Braveheart" and "Rob Roy" and a couple of other movies that got it all wrong.

Is this what you mean by a "shoulder strap"?



If so, that is actually two different garments he's wearing: it's a plaid seperated into a philabeg with the other portion joined together by the brooch and thrown over his shoulder.

Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean by "shoulder strap", as far as Rob Roy is concerned
(I won't go near Braveheart )

[davecolorado72]

I don't know about the garment but I saw that group perform in the Rocky Mountains and they were quite good. Their energy level was crazy.

[IndianaGentry]

So... belted plaid seems to be the popular answer here. I figured as much, but thought it was worth asking. Thanks for the input!

I don't know about the garment but I saw that group perform in the Rocky Mountains and they were quite good. Their energy level was crazy.

Indeed... I was at the top of the Scott Monument when they started playing, and I kept looking around from my bird's eye view, trying to figure out where the music was coming from. I couldn't see them performing because they were at the foot of the very monument! I picked up their CD (Eye of the Storm) after watching this performance, which is a simply fantastic CD. One word of advice- don't listen to it when you are driving, or you'll find that the drums tend to make you drive faster than you realize.

[MacWage]

. . . One word of advice- don't listen to it when you are driving, or you'll find that the drums tend to make you drive faster than you realize.

BUT . . . It's my FAVORITE driving music . . .
It pretty much STAYS in my CD player.

[IndianaGentry]

I'm only helping to run this off-topic, but... As pathetic a history lesson that Braveheart (the movie) is, it is incredible how much the Scots love that film. I asked about it several times while I was there, and everyone agreed that it is a great movie in their eyes. The main reason is apparently because they enjoy watching anything that shows the Scots kicking the collective arses of the English.

If you make it to Stirling and visit the National Wallace Monument, be sure to check out the statue near the parking lot- Wallace's face looks just like Mel Gibson's. No kidding. I was told that the statue has been vandalised many times because of this. Many of the souvenirs in the gift shop (at the bottom of the hill, not inside the monumnet) also resemble Mel. Funny stuff...

Also, there are 2 statues at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle- Robert the Bruce, and William Wallace. Neither man ever stepped foot inside the castle.

I nearly brought back a bolt of tartan, but spent my money elsewhere. There is a "Braveheart" tartan available around Edinburgh that is quite attractive- mostly various shades of brown and "earthtone colors" that look quite nice. I was told that it actually started with the Rob Roy tartan as the "base," and was altered from there. I still might order a length of it one day.

[ccga3359]

I'm only helping to run this off-topic, but... As pathetic a history lesson that Braveheart (the movie) is, it is incredible how much the Scots love that film. I asked about it several times while I was there, and everyone agreed that it is a great movie in their eyes. The main reason is apparently because they enjoy watching anything that shows the Scots kicking the collective arses of the English.

Actually my wife hit me after that scene because what the English did to her Mel, I'm English born. You have to understand she once said she'd leave me for Mel, I responded don't bother asking his name just leave...

The Braveheart tartan is a favourite of mine. Here is a thread of one members quest for a kilt in it. And a follow up.

[Highland Logan]

I'm only helping to run this off-topic, but... As pathetic a history lesson that Braveheart (the movie) is, it is incredible how much the Scots love that film. I asked about it several times while I was there, and everyone agreed that it is a great movie in their eyes.

Funny you should say that. All I spoke to about it hated it, because of all of the liberties that took with the facts. The statue of Wallace which was added to the base of the trail which leads to the Wallace Monument has also caused problems. It looks like Mel! When we were over for our wedding I have a picture of it, and I guess shortly after it was put behind a cage (irony) to protect it from backlash, and it's now for sale because no one wants it there.

Frank

[Jack Daw]

The statue of Wallace...it's now for sale because no one wants it there.

Frank

I saw the thing in 2003. It does look like Mel and I'm glad it's for sale and leaving.

[IndianaGentry]

Funny you should say that. All I spoke to about it hated it, because of all of the liberties that took with the facts. The statue of Wallace which was added to the base of the trail which leads to the Wallace Monument has also caused problems. It looks like Mel! When we were over for our wedding I have a picture of it, and I guess shortly after it was put behind a cage (irony) to protect it from backlash, and it's now for sale because no one wants it there.

Frank

The cage was gone when I was there... but perhaps the blue thing behind the statue is a part of it? I made an inset to this photo so that you can better see the face of William... or Mel... or whoever it is.

[Makeitstop]

The statue of Wallace which was added to the base of the trail which leads to the Wallace Monument has also caused problems... it's now for sale because no one wants it there.

That would look great in my living room.