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    Quote Originally Posted by greenfordranger View Post
    If you're wearing your shell jacket w/kilt to Honor your Heritage then you're in the right.
    How does one "Honor your Heritage" by wearing an outfit was never a part of one's collective tradition? That is exactly the opposite of the intended purpose - a fact that seems to be dismissed because one simply wants to make a statement. Look up "honor" and then look up "heritage" and you'll find that this hodge-podge of an outfit doesn't fit the bill.
    Last edited by SlackerDrummer; 19th January 11 at 09:04 AM. Reason: grammar
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlackerDrummer View Post
    I, too, am not bent out of shape.
    I'm not so sure....case in point:

    Quote Originally Posted by SlackerDrummer View Post
    How does one "Honor your Heritage" by wearing an outfit was never a part of one's collective tradition? That is exactly the opposite of the intended purpose - a fact that seems to be dismissed because one simply wants to make a statement. Look up "honor" and then look up "heritage" and you'll find that this hodge-podge of an outfit doesn't fit the bill.
    hmmmm....

    Quote Originally Posted by SlackerDrummer View Post
    But we wouldn't encourage anyone to wear any other non-Highland attire with a kilt - even, or perhaps especially, from the Victorian era. In fact we discourage it.
    Who's this "we" you speak of?
    The kilt police?

    May I see your badge number?


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