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skirtyscot wrote:The kilt was in danger of becoming fossilised, with its too-strict rules. The recent rise of casual kilts has gone the kilt a new lease of life. Certainly, mine is recognised by all as a kilt and it wins most people's approval. I think that, here in Scotland at any rate, people like to see a man in a kilt and applaud him for not being trousered like every other guy is.
But that still restricts a man to items which meet Caultron's criteria (and are knee-length as well). Well stuff that for a game of soldiers! I want a rather wider choice.
Hear hear! When I first bought my kilt some 8 years ago now, i was asked by the shop what I would wear with it and suggested a white collared shirt or possibly a wing-caller shirt and that was fine but when I suggested a matching tartan tie, there was much shaking of the head and tut-tut-tutting. I still wore the combination anyway!
And for when I have worn my khaki Utilitkilt, no one recognised it for anything more that a kilt and it was accepted as that.
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skirtingtoday wrote:...Hear hear! When I first bought my kilt some 8 years ago now, i was asked by the shop what I would wear with it and suggested a white collared shirt or possibly a wing-caller shirt and that was fine but when I suggested a matching tartan tie, there was much shaking of the head and tut-tut-tutting. I still wore the combination anyway! ...
Yeah, I guess I could see that. If you go to a traditional kilt shop they're going to plug tradition with lots of, "Tut tut"s and, "Oh no, sir really mustn't"s. That's probably what many of their customers expect, and it keeps up their snob appeal, which keeps up their prices.
skirtingtoday wrote:...And for when I have worn my khaki Utilitkilt, no one recognised it for anything more that a kilt and it was accepted it as that...
There you go.
Courage, conviction, nerve, verve, dash, panache, guts, nuts, balls, gall, élan, stones, whatever. Get some and get skirted.
Grok wrote:When-at a kilt shop-I mentioned that I had a Utilikilt, I got a similar "tut tut" reaction.
Because they haven’t understood what it all is about. The competition are trousers, not just another sort of kilt or a man’s skirt. If the market for men’s skirted garments increased all should benefit.
