Kilted US expat in Scotland needing advice

[Jock Scot]

I knew this is a dead giveaway once I've spoken.

I bet my sun tan is better than most in the UK as well

I am quite sure it is. Although, with the weather that we have had recently it may be a close run thing. On the other hand it’s pouring with rain at the moment!

[Pleater]

I'm on the South Coast and kilts are probably far more common here these days - in the last decade or so the heat of the summer months has really ramped up and I think that men appreciate kilts more.

Often a single encounter for some random reason results in the acquisition of one or more for everyday wearing. I've encountered men who first wore a kilt for dancing, for a friend's or their own wedding where the kilt was hired for the day, one played a Scot in an amateur dramatics performance and went home in the kilt!!

It could be that in years to come the kilt, in some form, is more common in Southern England than in the far North.

The Cornish black kilt is 'a thing' these days - every time I travel west they become more common with every mile. There are Cornish tartan kilts now, but I have yet to encounter one - probably only a matter of time.

Anne the Pleater

[Jock Scot]

I'm on the South Coast and kilts are probably far more common here these days - in the last decade or so the heat of the summer months has really ramped up and I think that men appreciate kilts more.

Often a single encounter for some random reason results in the acquisition of one or more for everyday wearing. I've encountered men who first wore a kilt for dancing, for a friend's or their own wedding where the kilt was hired for the day, one played a Scot in an amateur dramatics performance and went home in the kilt!!

It could be that in years to come the kilt, in some form, is more common in Southern England than in the far North.

The Cornish black kilt is 'a thing' these days - every time I travel west they become more common with every mile. There are Cornish tartan kilts now, but I have yet to encounter one - probably only a matter of time.

Anne the Pleater

I saw a chap wearing Hunting Cornish tartan, up here, only the other day! I thought it looked rather good and the first Cornish Tartan kilt that I have seen. As I know Cornwall fairly well, I stopped and had chat with him and we had a very pleasant chat about his home County.

[Janner52]

My story is much as Anne describes. Purchased a kilt for Scottish Country Dancing about 20 years ago and got hooked. Didn’t see many regular kilt wearers in my previous life in North Hampshire, other than myself.

I tend to take the view that if I am seen out and about in the kilt it may encourage others to do the same and hopefully keep casual kilt wearing alive and help the traditional highland dress industry.

The other point is; why spend a fortune on a kilt and then shut it away in a wardrobe!