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[KFCarter]

I've been lobbying for them as proper business attire for quite sometime in SW Missouri during the Summer, especially THIS Summer!

T.

minor, partial hi-jack alert:

No kidding!! If I hadn't just blown my allowance on kilt related purchase (not a bad way to do it...) I'd be chasing some Bemuda Shorts down. There's a great men's clothiers here and his designer/seamstress and I are cooking up some ideas around tropical weight kilt jackets... but I wouldn't mind adding Bermuda Shorts to the arsenal. Can you suggest any good links for doing some research?
Ken

[Panache]

...Strutting along, in a black tee shirt with "Real Men Wear Kilts" across the front, and on his lower half.....bermuda shorts! I guess he was trying to send a message.

George,

You are too hard on the fellow

He has the message!

Now he just needs to go out and get his kilt

Cheers

Jamie

[O'Callaghan]

Michele and I were at the Celtic Fling at the PA Renn Faire site yesterday. A good time was had by all, which will be in another thread. But I almost fell down laughing at one of the attendees. Strutting along, in a black tee shirt with "Real Men Wear Kilts" across the front, and on his lower half.....bermuda shorts! I guess he was trying to send a message.


Geoff Withnell

The same sight was seen at the Southern MD Celtic Fest. One of the vendors told me she had seen a guy in a kilt slogan shirt and trousers, and my reply was that I had seen different guy (different slogan) doing the same thing! Maybe they just buy the shirt and pretend that they are man enough to wear the kilt?

[Fit2BKilted]

Michele and I were at the Celtic Fling at the PA Renn Faire site yesterday. A good time was had by all, which will be in another thread. But I almost fell down laughing at one of the attendees. Strutting along, in a black tee shirt with "Real Men Wear Kilts" across the front, and on his lower half.....bermuda shorts! I guess he was trying to send a message.


Geoff Withnell

It's amazing what some guys will turn to get a date... Advertising. Somewhat more subtle than piercing his right ear though... Perhaps he's looking for intellectual company?

[Jerry]

That would truly have been priceless, had he been accompanied by a friend wearing a kilt.

[McFarkus]

Perhaps he was just letting everyone know that he's not a real man.

[ghostlight]

Strutting along, in a black tee shirt with "Real Men Wear Kilts" across the front, and on his lower half.....bermuda shorts! I guess he was trying to send a message.

Perhaps he was sending an S.O.S. and was hoping someone would buy him a kilt?

[macwilkin]

I have a t-shirt from our old Celtic Society that also has this catchphrase on the back, and there have been a number of occasions I have worn it with a pair of shorts or jeans -- does that make me less of a man?

Honestly, gents -- if we're going to demand greater acceptance of kilts from the general public, then shouldn't we practice what we preach?

Just some food for thought.

T.

[ghostlight]

cajunscot, I think the issue has more to do with context in this case.

Going to a highland games or a ren faire in a kilt shirt with shorts/pants on strikes me as being similar to going to the symphony in one of those suit/tuxedo t-shirts.

Some people are going to see it as "talking the talk", but not "walking the walk". It may not be improper, but it's going to get some looks for various reasons.

I'm not passing judgment, just saying.

[macwilkin]

cajunscot, I think the issue has more to do with context in this case.

Going to a highland games or a ren faire in a kilt shirt with shorts/pants on strikes me as being similar to going to the symphony in one of those suit/tuxedo t-shirts.

Some people are going to see it as "talking the talk", but not "walking the walk". It may not be improper, but it's going to get some looks for various reasons.

I'm not passing judgment, just saying.

Many people go to Highland Games in "Saxon" dress, though -- are they somehow "wrong"? My wife, for example, is of French Cajun heritage, and generally does not wear anything Scottish when she attends the games with me.

One year at our local games, one of my best friends, who is a former president of our St. Andrew's Society, wore his shooting attire with wellies because it was a very rainy day -- and who could blame him?

All I'm saying is that if folks want the general public to accept kilts and kilt-wearing, perhaps we should extend that to others as well.

T.