Men in kilts...Yay/nay?

[Biddlybee]

The shoes are plain wrong....

Aren't they? Need the boots socks and that little knife thing

 

[Yetman]

Kilts are very sexy - but, yes, legs should...must.. be hairy otherwise it just doesn't look right

Definitely. I've got yeti legs hence the name

I come downstairs in a kilt and get told 'you shouldnt wear anything under a kilt, now go and take them mohair trousers off'

 

[bluestreak]

As luck would have it, someone gave me a kilt on saturday.

it looks fucking great.

 

[Roadkill]

Kilts can look great. I'd feel very stupid indeed wearing one, though...

 

[weepiper]

Nice bum, big hairy legs, kilt = phwoaaaar

 

[fogbat]

Is anything worn under the kilt?

 

[Fedayn]

I am not weakening, and whilst I have a nice muscly bum and rather muscly legs I do not have especially hairy legs. As such no!

 

[Fedayn]

Is anything worn under the kilt?

Shoes and socks obviously.

 

[Refused as fuck]

fuck right off!!!

 

[bluestreak]

Is anything worn under the kilt?

No, it all works just fine etc.

 

[fogbat]

No, it all works just fine etc.

Thank you

Huh, you set up obvious jokes for people these days, and they trample right through them

 

[geminisnake]

pics or it didn't happen

Beat me to it

There was quite a number of blokes wearing kilts on Saturday night at the xmas bikers bash

I like real kilts, not sure about some of the crap pretend ones the marketing twats are churning out.

 

[pogofish]

I am only interested in the full regalia. Punk kiltage doesn't count, pogofish.

This is the only kiled shot of me currently online:

 

[treefrog]

I love kilts, oh yes

Nice-looking bloke in a kilt, rugby shirt, boots (NOT those wanky little leather bits of pich you get out of slaters) and I go all funny

 

[Guineveretoo]

phoarrrr

Hairrier legs the better too!

Sorry - I just thought it should be seen again.

Wouldn't want anyone to miss it, you see.

 

[moose]

Definitely depends what it's worn with. Those wanky jackets and hairy socks with silly lacey shoes look terrible. With big boots look great
Fail

Win

 

[killer b]

i agree the 'traditional' accompaniment to a kilt looks horrible. a more modern take on the kilt is a fine thing though...

i come from the clan maclaren, and indeed have my own kilt. it's at my mums at the moment, otherwise i'd post pics.

 

[harpo]

A big yay! Especially if the man wearing it has good knees..

 

[spring-peeper]

Where I live, men wear kilts to weddings, graduations, funerals....anything formal.

But then, I live in a very Scottish area and Scottish heritage is a very cherised and valued thing.

I remember my kids telling me about what happened at their graduation dance. Some kids from away went into the Hall and called one of the young kilt-clad gentlemen a fag. They learned not to mess with a room full of farmers in kilts.

 

[pogofish]

i agree the 'traditional' accompaniment to a kilt looks horrible.

It is actually anything but - You do have to accept that by wearing the modern kilt, you are merely perpetuating a Georgian characticure of traditional dress.

Tartans ain't all that either - Apart from a very few established patterns which would never have been worn in the modern manner, most date from the years immediately after the suppression ended & the early Victorian period, where a family name was assigned simply to whoever bought the first batch of the stuff.

 

[killer b]

aye, i know. that's why i put the ''s around 'traditional'...

 

[Y_I_Otter]

I honestly can't imagine myself wearing one, but I'd gladly hold a ladder for someone who was.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Me looking awkward in a kilt

 

[treefrog]

*faps*

 

[boohoo]

Me looking awkward in a kilt

Great picture!! Nice kilt!

 

[Clair De Lune]

Me looking awkward in a kilt

Totally approve!
More men in Kilts pics pwease.

 

[teuchter]

I haven't worn one for about ten years.

The kilt question is a bit of a tricky one for me. It very much depends on the occasion. The thing is that there is a tendency in many cases for kilts to be worn by people who are not Scottish but want to pretend that they are. Most people I have known who wear a kilt outside of very formal occasions like weddings or funerals speak with a posh English accent.

So, I wouldn't generally wear one for patriotic reasons, because it would make me feel like I was one of these wannabe Scots.

In any case, as far as I understand, the kilt (along with most tartans) is a Victorian invention, promoted by large landowners who liked the staff working on their estates to look picturesque. Prior to that, they were not commonly worn, unless you go back to before the battle of Culloden in 1746 (after which the wearing of tartan was banned by the English oppressors) in which case people wore what was known as a plaid, which was a large length of cloth that kind of went over the shoulder and covered the whole body.

In any case, before then it was really a Highland form of dress rather than a "Scottish" one.

So in essence, wearing a modern kilt denotes submission to the landowning classes and as such I would be disappointed to see any U75 class warrior wearing one.

 

[Clair De Lune]

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[boohoo]

Interesting. So is there a traditional Scottish dress that is pre-Victorian and Scottish rather than particular to a region or will there always be big difference in traditional dress because the distances between Dumfries to say orkneys is rather large with a lot of big hills in the way and therefore would probably not lead to a united sense of identity except by way of maybe all coming from the same origins? (if they did - Viking/Scot/Picts mix... and any other stragglers along the way)

 

[nino_savatte]

I am a man and I wear a kilt. Not "I'd wear one", I do wear one....not all the time like.