Men in kilts...Yay/nay?

[killer b]

is 'hill walking' a euphemism for some other kind of vigorous outdoor activity now?

 

[teuchter]

What?? Kilt = warm when cold and cool when warm, makes sense to me.

I think hubby is telling fibs. He probably doesn't even go hillwalking. I have never seen a hillwalker dressed in a kilt.

 

[killer b]

do you often go walking in the highlands?

 

[Rainingstairs]

phoarrrr

Hairrier legs the better too!

wohoo! I <3 kilts

 

[Rainingstairs]

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

Hey, I hooked up with that guy a couple summers back....don't hate on him

 

[Rainingstairs]

Me looking awkward in a kilt

what a large, sporan--you have

 

[geminisnake]

I think hubby is telling fibs. He probably doesn't even go hillwalking. I have never seen a hillwalker dressed in a kilt.

You live in Brixton, we live in Angus 40 minutes from lots of the glens.
now should I believe you or the man I've been married to for 20 yrs??
Specially when I've met some of the kilted walkers in the Clova Hotel after their walk

Are you a weekender teuchter?? May be why you're not seeing the kilts. Plenty locals don't go up the hills at weekends.

killer b, hillwalking is NOT a euphemism for anything afaik.

 

[goldenecitrone]

It's weird. Normally if a man flashes his genitals in public the law can be understandably harsh. Unless he's wearing a striped skirt in which case it's somehow alright. Weird.

 

[quimcunx]

You live in Brixton, we live in Angus 40 minutes from lots of the glens.
now should I believe you or the man I've been married to for 20 yrs??
Specially when I've met some of the kilted walkers in the Clova Hotel after their walk

Are you a weekender teuchter?? May be why you're not seeing the kilts. Plenty locals don't go up the hills at weekends.

killer b, hillwalking is NOT a euphemism for anything afaik.

Perhaps Angus is kinder to hillwalkers than The Highlands.

My dad goes hillwalking in Angus. I shall ask him. He doesn't really do any of the more challenging hills, I don't think. He's getting on a bit you know.

He certainly doesn't wear a kilt. He is too cheap to buy one.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

what a large, sporan--you have

Needs to be for all the make up that was in it

 

[_pH_]

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.

^ this. that whole professional scotsman thing at weddings etc. is just stupid. I have no problem with anyone wearing a kilt whenever they want, but if your only Scottish heritage is your great-great-great grandmother's second cousin three time removed, then you're not really Scottish are you? so stop pretending you twat.

Kilts seem very popular in catalogues of wedding hire for some reason

 

[boohoo]

Perhaps Angus is kinder to hillwalkers than The Highlands.

My dad goes hillwalking in Angus. I shall ask him. He doesn't really do any of the more challenging hills, I don't think. He's getting on a bit you know.

I think I might have to ask for a refund for my recent trip to Scotland as I was not a witness to any kilted men up the highlands... If only I'd known this was a sight to see.

 

[quimcunx]

^ this. that whole professional scotsman thing at weddings etc. is just stupid. I have no problem with anyone wearing a kilt whenever they want, but if your only Scottish heritage is your great-great-great grandmother's second cousin three time removed, then you're not really Scottish are you? so stop pretending you twat.

Kilts seem very popular in catalogues of wedding hire for some reason

I agree with the professional Scot thing but I don't mind if someone not scottish wants to wear one just because, or if you are attending a function in Scotland.

My sister attended a lovely wedding twixt a French Vietnamese guy and a Swedish Scots girl where she wore a Vietnamese wedding dress and he wore a kilt.

 

[quimcunx]

I think I might have to ask for a refund for my recent trip to Scotland as I was not a witness to any kilted men up the highlands... If only I'd known this was a sight to see.

When I lived in Glasgow there was one man I used to see regularly who wore a kilt as a matter of course, and wasn't a busking piper.

Maybe the bekilted hillwalking has gotten more common with devolution. There was n'ary a kilt to be seen at a wedding 20 years ago.


Now, wheres this photo of himself in a kilt teuchter promised us?

 

[_pH_]

I agree with the professional Scot thing but I don't mind if someone not scottish wants to wear one just because, or if you are attending a function in Scotland.

My sister attended a lovely wedding twixt a French Vietnamese guy and a Swedish Scots girl where she wore a Vietnamese wedding dress and he wore a kilt.

No there's nothing wrong with wearing a kilt, hope I didn't come across like that, but that whole professional scotsman thing (or any other nationality/regionality).....

 

[pogofish]

Perhaps Angus is kinder to hillwalkers than The Highlands.

Angus hills are the highlands -they are formed by the Highland Boundary Fault & in many ways are also harder because they are more remote & less featured/drained/well walked than the main honeypot mountains. They also rise to a similar height to the main Cairngorm plateau.

I think hubby is telling fibs. He probably doesn't even go hillwalking. I have never seen a hillwalker dressed in a kilt.

I've seen them frequently.

In fact the kilt is an excellent hill garment, in maybe all but the very depths of winter. Again, they may be more popular with the old style distance/bothying walker rather than the Munro Bagger/technical walker & they are also still surprisingly popular amongst keepers/stalkers because of their practicality.

 

[Fedayn]

Bloody skirt wearers!!

 

[geminisnake]

Bloody skirt wearers!!

And here was me thinking you'd posted a photo

 

[quimcunx]

Angus hills are the highlands -they are formed by the Highland Boundary Fault & in many ways are also harder because they are more remote & less featured/well walked than the main honeypot mountains. They also rise to a similar height to the main Cairngorm plateau.

I mean I think this bit:

Is milder (whilst still remembering there's always someone manages to close their account wandering around Glen Doll in flip flops in February) than the more rugged and north westerly Highland Region.

I was very confused to discover a few years ago that when people down here talked of holidays huntin' shootin' and fishin' in The Highlands they often didn't mean the Highlands Region at all but the highlands much closer to me in Tayside Region.

 

[Fedayn]

And here was me thinking you'd posted a photo

In a kilt? Noooooo chance.

 

[teuchter]

You live in Brixton, we live in Angus 40 minutes from lots of the glens.
now should I believe you or the man I've been married to for 20 yrs??
Specially when I've met some of the kilted walkers in the Clova Hotel after their walk

Are you a weekender teuchter?? May be why you're not seeing the kilts. Plenty locals don't go up the hills at weekends.

killer b, hillwalking is NOT a euphemism for anything afaik.

Well, I now live in Brixton but I grew up in a glen and never have I seen anyone out walking in a kilt. Not on any day of the week and I have been out walking in the hills summer and winter for the past twenty years at least. I would suggest that you should trust me rather than your husband who you have only ever seen sat about in a hotel bar with his bekilted so-called hill-walking friends. I note from your tagline and also a previous thread that you are not keen on mountains. Now then, if you were some dodgy fellow who liked claiming he was some kind of outdoors mountaineering type as cover for his secret kilt wearing drinking club, who would you marry? You would marry someone who would never want to come hillwalking with you and see through your deceit, wouldn't you.

The only people I've seen regularly wearing kilts outside of formal occasions are bagpipe players lurking in laybys next to Loch Ness or Princes St or Buchanan St, and ancient crumpled aristocrats blundering around Inverness trying to find a shop that sells pipe tobacco.

Anyways, who knows what kind of dodgy business goes on in Angus.

 

[pogofish]

I mean I think this bit:

Is milder (whilst still remembering there's always someone manages to close their account wandering around Glen Doll in flip flops in February) than the more rugged and north westerly Highland Region.

I was very confused to discover a few years ago that when people down here talked of holidays huntin' shootin' and fishin' in The Highlands they often didn't mean the Highlands Region at all but the highlands much closer to me in Tayside Region.

Only the northern part of that map is hill country - Roughly a line a bit north of Edzell/Kirriemuir, where the hills rise steeply from the fault.



Maybe milder in terms of crags & corries but still no easy strolling country & crossed by several high-level routes:

This is about the lowest & easiest of them.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/clova/clova/

Which can seem deceptively easy until you come over the brow of a hill to find yourself looking down into this:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5787014

Or this, the other side from Clova at about 900m:

Much of it is grouse moor/deerstalking teritory

 

[quimcunx]

I was thinking as much of weather as the generally less wild character of the east.

I'm from Angus. A hill in the unhilly part, and, possibly shockingly, haven't explored much north of Kirriemuir, where my grandparents lived out their retirement.

 

[stroober]

I think hubby is telling fibs. He probably doesn't even go hillwalking. I have never seen a hillwalker dressed in a kilt.

I have

 

[nino_savatte]

I have

So have I.

 

[19sixtysix]

I have a thing for kilted punks.
Mohawk kilt, jumper and boots. Mmmmm.

My maths teacher at school wore his kilt every day.

 

[geminisnake]

LOL @ teuchter
Hubby doesn't wear a kilt Or drink tbh which kinda quashes your theory.

Maybe it's an east/west divide?? What with the amount of midges on the west and all

 

[quimcunx]

Well I asked my dad who, you may remember, goes hillwalking in Angus if he ever sees anyone wearing a kilt and he said no.

However my mother then piped up, ''Do you remember Sid Scobie? He used to wear a kilt to go hillwalking.''






''........he had a wooden leg. I think he liked people to be able to see.''






''he was blind''






''He's dead now.''

 

[teuchter]

I certainly didn't see anyone wearing kilts on the Scottish hills this Christmas.

I did find this, though, which is me wearing a kilt in the long distant past.

 

[quimcunx]

Is that from the time 10 years ago?

A whole family of kilts. Pass on my compliments to your dad's knees.

What were you contemplating?