How many kilts do you own? How often do you wear them?

January 19, 2020, 12:40 PM

As the title says. How many kilts do you have, how often do you wear them and for what occasions do you wear them for?

What price range are they in if you have more than one?

When you wear your kilt do you carry and what and how?

ARman

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January 19, 2020, 01:02 PM

ensigmatic

Kilts, for me, have been kind of like an earring or tattoo: I've often considered each of them--and that's about it.

A proper kilt is expensive. Particularly if you want it in a particular clan's tartan. (I've lineage back to a particular, fairly notable clan on my mother's side.) Then there's the question of when and where I'd wear it--a question for which I've been unable to summon a good answer.

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January 19, 2020, 01:31 PM

ArtieS

I thought about it, but... I live in Florida and wearing wool isn't high on my list. I would want a good one, and good one's are expensive. There's the "where and when would I wear it" problem. Finally, there's the "earring and tattoo" issues that ensigmatic mentions. I'm not trendy. I'm not trying to stand out. And if I did do it, I'd probably want a Great Kilt, and those are even less practical than the normal kind.

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January 19, 2020, 01:51 PM

tacfoley

quote:
Originally posted by ARman:
As the title says. How many kilts do you have,

Until they find me documented evidence of the Clan Cohen tartan, I won't be wearing ANY kind of kilt.

January 19, 2020, 02:13 PM

sigfreund

I have two kilts that I purchased in Scotland after retiring from the Army. I only wear one occasionally now because I became a “bigger” person and have had only it resized; I keep thinking I should get the other done one day. The tartans are a “hunting” and an “old” version of the more common one for my family name.

The town where I live has various activities to which attendees are encouraged to wear “period” dress or fancier outfits, so I wear the kilt then as it seems to satisfy the spirit of the whole thing. I have a traditional jacket that I usually wear along with a formal dress shirt.

I also have a couple of the “tactical” kilts that 5.11 produced a few years ago, and which started as an April Fool joke. They have no special meaning and therefore don’t have to be treated carefully. They’re lightweight and “airy,” and therefore I sometimes wear one when hiking (in the summer).

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January 19, 2020, 02:15 PM

parrotdog

I own 3
One in MacLaren for my Boy Scouting events
One in Stewart for my family name
One in McRae for my wife family name
I wear them at least once a month

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January 19, 2020, 02:20 PM

MRMATT

I have an unfinished one. My very Scottish grandmother started to make me one years ago. I'd taken her to the Delco Scottish games and I tried my hand at some of the events. She died before we got to go again and before the kilt was finished.

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January 19, 2020, 03:07 PM

dewhorse

2 I bought a 5.11 tacti-kilts years ago, wear it all the time. We had a team paint ball event last summer and I wore it and my buddy wore his Capt Chaos costume.

My wife got me another from Christmas....

One of the days I will get a proper one with my family tartan.

January 19, 2020, 03:17 PM

lizardman_u

I have no kilts, but am wanting to purchase one. I am thinking the cost for a traditional kilt will be at least $800.00 for me as I want at least a medium weight wool.

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January 19, 2020, 03:26 PM

signewt

N/A for me, however a few times a year I've run into someone at the Home Improvement store that fits the cast-call specs for 'sturdy Scots warrior': he's about 6'4", perhaps late 30s, massively muscular shoulders & a definite "wayWayWAY in shape" body movement, unkempt longish deep reddish mane, a plain rugged sort of a tacti-kilt that looks like he's been shoeing horses or eating raw velociraptors, and some kind of high-calf boots that resemble the style the Mongolian Hu band guy wears.

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January 19, 2020, 03:27 PM

DoveEgg

I have a black watch tartan kilt that was gifted to me by my Scottish friends when I studied abroad in Edinburgh. That was almost 20 years ago so it doesn't fit me any more, but I still have it hanging in the closet.

When I was younger I would paint my face blue and wear a brown mullet wig and go as Braveheart for halloween. Other than that I never wore it in public.

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January 19, 2020, 04:43 PM

Sig2340

Despite have a Scottish lineage I can trace way, way back, I own zero kilts, and have no desire to wear one, unless doing so brought me endless riches, a title (with a peerage seat at the House of Lords), and a small castle.