The Dreaded Annual Halloween Kilt Thread - 2009

[Panache]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Every year on XMTS we have a thread about costumes and kilts

Every year a lot of X Markers get annoyed that people wear kilts as part of a costume

So why don't we do something different this year?

Let's talk about ways or maybe even show pictures of how one can integrate a kilt into a Halloween costume and still be respectful to the kilt?

I'll start



Here is a photo from our Scottish Country Dance class' Halloween party last year.

I am a Scottish Butterfly hunter after a particularly exotic specimen

This year I will also be wearing a kilt as part of my Halloween costume (details to follow at a later date!).

So Ladies and Gentlemen, the gauntlet has been cast down and the challenged issued.

Tell us or show us a good way to wear the kilt at All Hallow's Eve.

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[Nighthawk]

Well, me personally- as several people here know, I'm in a living history group called the Renaissance Scots. I'll simply wear my RS garb as my Halloween costume. It's a costume by the most basic of definitions, anyway, so why not?

[KFCarter]

Happy hunting there, Jamie.... er, um... oh, right, Halloween. Actually it coincides with opening night of the Savannah Film Festival this year, so I'll be going to the red carpet festivities as a "Kilted Executive Director of a Theatre." Should be interesting...

[Zardoz]

JAMIE !



My hand.... er, I mean it's not even October yet!


The annual kilt thread I dread almost as much as the one about March

[wildrover]

P-

Awesome...giggity!

I'll still be in a deep jones, come Halloween...looking forward to what y'all come up with!

-Sean

[Riverkilt]

Well, this is the closest I've come to walking that line between being kilted with the kilt not a costume. Sort of a jester look with a medical white Utilikilts original.



Most of clinical staffing this morning was spent planning our agency Halloween party on the 23rd so I do have to come up with something again. Hoping to steal some ideas from this thread.

Ron

[Zardoz]

Ahhh... October, the changing leaves, fall festivals, and the annual "Kilts on Halloween" thread!

The first time I wore a kilt out in public was on "Halloween dress-up day" at work, and later that evening at a show with my wife's band. I'd recieved my kilt, sporran, hose, and 'Jacobite' shirt all from Sportkilt, only a few days before. I had not found the support system of this forum yet, and had a lot of the issues about venturing out in public the 'first time' that new kilt wearers often express here.
In retrospect, I looked woeful, but I figured correctly that Halloween would be a chance to test out my public kilt wearing without sticking out so much, it gave me the mental excuse I needed to get out there.

Now I agree 100% with the idea that modern kilts are men's clothing and not costumes, but we always say that the kilt is a versatile garment that is as at home at as rugby match as it is at a formal ball, etc. I wear one as much as possible, so I don't see why kilts can't be part of a costume, just like any other article of clothing. I would imply that the kilt as part of an obvious fantasy costume is not 'de-legitimized' any more than jeans or scrubs or whatever else you might be wearing would be. Most of the general public already already thinks we're nuts for dressing this way anyway, so seeing you in your Braveheart getup on Halloween is not going to change that view one way or the other!

Here I am with a coworker at work Halloween dress up day a couple years ago; This is basically one of my ren-faire outfits.

(I'm the one on the right)

Even though I might wear the same kilts, I don't wear this kind of outfit other than on Halloween and at Ren Faire! I see a big difference between my "faire garb" and everyday outfits.

[ForresterModern]

Z

Its beautiful. The lovely Caledonia I think I spy around your waist. Been wondering what one of those would look like and yours just made my day.

The girl is pretty too.

I guess no flatcaps in the renaissance period, eh?

[cessna152towser]

Super pic, Zardoz, but I almost failed to spot the Caledonia kilt!

[Jock Scot]

Z

Its beautiful. The lovely Caledonia I think I spy around your waist. Been wondering what one of those would look like and yours just made my day.

The girl is pretty too.

I guess no flatcaps in the renaissance period, eh?

Mr. ForresterModern, you are a mischievous man!