Wearing kilts as a mark of respect

[Nick the DSM]

I'm with you!

[Riverkilt]

I'm with Bruce...wasn't that long ago that after a couple years of wearing kilts to work daily I was told to stop - on the aniversary of proscription!! Ironic my employer is a Federally funded agency that is constantly teaching and requiring cultural sensitivity and diversity. Was able to work through that and hopefully cement my right to wear kilts at work. For that reason proscription has meaning for me. When I kilt up for work I always am aware that I had to win that right yet again.

Of course being single and knowing that most lassies love a kilted man, the FREEDOM! and breeze between my knees, their beauty, the swing and swish, etc etc are reasons...if reasons are needed....

Headed for the river today....kilted of course.

Ron

[Stratherrick]

No offence taken, Ugly Bear!

I decided I'd get my kilt in 2000 after standing at the spot at Culloden where my ancestors charged across the battlefield knowing that, within a short space in time, their culture was to be decimated and their women raped.

It has also inspired me to learn a little Scots' Gaelic, also banned, though, as yet, it hasn't got me picking up the pipes, also banned.

Cheers

Bruce

[Jack Daw]

Evey now and then, I get asked why the Scots still wear the kilt, and my short answer is, "Because at one time their government told them they couldn't." I don't know about other countries, but in America, that answer is never misunderstood.

[Ozman1944]

I just always liked the Kilted look, but only saw them in parades. Now they are more popular, and available, and (thanks to Stillwater , Frugal Corner, et al) within budget range, and I am now at that age when I don 't have to please anyone but myself, and can wear what I darn well like; I wear 'em! Tartans, Solid color, Leather, Traditional, Modern. I enjoy them all.
The look and the comfort is great.
A pity Roman Togas or Muslim Djebellas, aren't "in" or I'd be draped in one at the drop of a hat. Anything to be free of constricting trousers!!!

[TheBlueCow]

Well, I personally don't have a drop of Scottish blood in me (but do have a wee bit o' Irish), but I do have a deep belief in Freedom and I certainly identify with the struggle to be free of oppression, whatever form it may take.

While that alone may not be enough for me to strap on a kilt (I do things differently not for the sake of being different but for the sake that it's just more practical), the Fight again Oppression attitude is a must for donning a kilt.

So while I don't wear a kilt because of the oppression of my ancestors, I do wear a kilt with the same appreciation of Freedom.

However, I usually like to point out to people that I wear my kilts in "True American form". That is, when this nation was being formed, there was a strong emphasis on Liberty, which provides the "power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice" (definition from dictionary.com). It is with this attitude specifically that I wear a kilt - I have the right to wear a kilt, and I choose to wear it, which is all the reason I need.

[jordanjm]

I really understand your inspiration. It was not that long ago that well meaning family members stole my kilts, because they wanted me to fit in. I got them back, and I proudly wear them.

[Alan H]

Hmmm. Well, that's not my reason, but if that's your reason, then that works for me. Just wear 'em!

[Roan Carter]

Eh. Come on, man. It's been 250 years. Let it go. There are plenty of practical reasons to wear the kilt, and this ain't one of them.

"For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude
towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the
memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of
identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation."

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston, 1894

[ccga3359]

...Yet you live in the land of the oppressors. I'm with Ugly Bear on this one. I do, however, appreciate your respect of the kilt.