Why you don't see Scots wearing their kilts often

[Jock Scot]

Actually the Scot in general and the Highland Scot in particular are a very courteous bunch and apart from certain areas in the lowlands that are renowned for raucous behaviour,---take note of the football match two days ago!----- particularly when alcohol is involved, the tourist will have absolutely nothing to fear. Now if a visitor tries to tell a Scot ANY Scot(funnily enough lowlanders all of a sudden turn into kilt experts and can be very vociferous over all this!)how to wear the kilt,WHEN TO WEAR IT, potted clan history etc, etc ,even though the visitor may be right, then watch out!


The Lowland Scot has a tough and often seemingly unforgiving sense of humour which takes few prisoners , but actually means(most of the time)no harm and unless it is understood as such, real offence can unfortunately be taken.

So a person wearing the kilt in the lowlands MIGHT be the target for some tough , but generally good natured micky taking. A visitor , in most of the lowlands will probably escape unscathed. However a kilt wearing visitor in certain parts of the Central Belt(Lowlands), for example, could well have some serious fun poked at him!

[GG]

Actually the Scot in general and the Highland Scot in particular are a very courteous bunch... Now if a visitor tries to tell a Scot ANY Scot(funnily enough lowlanders all of a sudden turn into kilt experts and can be very vociferous over all this!)how to wear the kilt,WHEN TO WEAR IT, potted clan history etc, etc ,even though the visitor may be right, then watch out!

O Jock, I don’t miss your allusion to yesterday’s debating. I have no hard feelings about it, however. But perhaps I should stress that I have no intention to tell you/any Scotts WHEN to wear the kilt. My business was solely to suggest a more frequent wearing of it, i.e. that a special occasion should not be absolutely needed.
I think you can agree with me that the more the kilt is seen – worn in a proper way, of course – the better it shall be over all accepted.
I also think the kilt making business should profit from a more frequent wearing. Do you not see my point?

The Lowland Scot has a tough and often seemingly unforgiving sense of humour which takes few prisoners , but actually means(most of the time)no harm and unless it is understood as such, real offence can unfortunately be taken.

So a person wearing the kilt in the lowlands MIGHT be the target for some tough , but generally good natured micky taking. A visitor , in most of the lowlands will probably escape unscathed. However a kilt wearing visitor in certain parts of the Central Belt(Lowlands), for example, could well have some serious fun poked at him!

I do understand that the kilt is not particular welcome in the Scottish Lowlands, where 80% of all Scots live, at least not in day time, and that that has nothing to do with being Scottish or not, whereas in the Highlands it should be more accepted, even if some might wonder why on earth a foreigner should be wearing a kilt?

I still find it difficult to understand that I can wear a kilt in Denmark, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and probably in a lot of other countries without any problems at all. But not in the very home of the kilt?

I’m convinced that if in Germany I would wear short Lederhosen which the Germans themselves are no longer wearing (except for the October Festival in Munich), I shouldn’t be ridiculed or attacked, apart from, perhaps, by types I should otherwise not bore to communicate with.