BS: Kilts

Subject: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:11 AM

I was in getting measured up for a new kilt, a super sexy black one, and I got rather an eye opener. This was a traditional Kiltmaker's shop but in addition to the usual selection of tartans tasteful and modern, and the odd kilt in Hodden grey or super sexy back, there were some even I would be wary of wearing. Utilikilts, denim kilts, camo kilts I can take, even black leather (not as super sexy as wool) but bright red PVC! Pink PVC!
Makes me glad I can claim to be Welsh.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:16 AM

There are people who can wear kilts and there are people who can't and there are people who should never be allowed to under the Geneva Convention.

I name no names.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:17 AM

LOL Liz!!! Indeed you are speaking the truth!

Red PVC Kilts....Oh my!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:19 AM

This or this?

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:21 AM

Aren't we all working hard today!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:26 AM

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
It is just wrong. Kilts should NEVER be PVC. Imagine the chafing around the thighs! UGH!
Novelty Sporrans are OK though.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:28 AM

Work..whats that??>...Im on sick leave..supposed to be relaxing while on full pay!!

Those kilts just shouldn't be allowed!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:30 AM

Noreen - the second one I like, I may get one. The first one was what I saw.
LTS - I can't think who you mean at all. But you're right, most Morris dancers should be kept away from kilts in case anyone gets at the bellrope.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:23 AM

Dave - if you get the second one it would answer the question of what's worn underneath......

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:25 AM

Kilts = skirts

Skirts on men = transvestism

transvestism = Harri Watts Band.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:28 AM

Jacki.c - nothings worn it's all in perfect working order.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:33 AM

A word to all the men out there: kilts make men sexy, wear them more often (not pvc kilts though). I am going to be very disapointed when I move back to California where nobody ever wears kilts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:39 AM

Only men with good legs look good in kilts! This is why guys should be encouraged to dance!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:52 AM

My legs are good. Well, two of them do what their told, the other one does what it wants.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:56 AM

Layah - i refer you to my first post... Not all men look sexy in kilts. Some men couldn't look sexy if they tried. There are some men who are just not sexy. These men should never wear kilts.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:58 AM

That is very true LTS some men should not be allowed out of the house without a bag over their heads, let alone be allowed to wear kilts. However some guys should be made to wear them all the time because they look so damm good! Kilts or tight leather trousers!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:01 AM

mmmmmm tight leather trousers!!!

On the kilt front I suppose it gives easy access and they can't get their 'parts' trapped in the zip!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:06 AM

but a bugger if the Viagra is working...

Mmmmmmm leather trousers...... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Must go have a lie down and a cold shower.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:11 AM

Mmmmmmm yes the leather trousers would win everytime!!!....

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:13 AM

I feel a thread creep coming on... well something creeping!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:21 AM

What about very, very, very short suede lederhosen. We have those too.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:30 AM

Short Bavarian or Long Austrian?

Bye the bye...

"Lederhosen threatened by government cuts" is a headline from todays' Telegraph... Bavarian government has cut funding to folk groups, thus resulting in the cutting short of the Beerfest.


Then there is this report.... Austrian Kilt link

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Ethan's Granny
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:30 AM

Lederhosen? No. Never ever. But kilts - with a mucky man inside it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes, yes, YES!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:48 AM

Not sure about the leather trousers but I wonder if I could get the Cap'n into a kilt....

Definitely cold shower time!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:00 AM

Kendall's just shown me a photo of him in a kilt in his younger days.

Looking at that I don't think a kilt would be a good idea now - it could end up with a lot of overheated females!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:08 AM

Dave, you are going to like that black one. I have one, and it is my favorite. I don't mind the casual kilts that are made out of a fabric called Duck. They are made in the traditional style. I can't stand the various "utilikilts" with the pockets. They just look shitty.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:34 AM

I've had women trying to talk me into kilts for years - but decided that I'd do the woorld a favour and not.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:46 AM

Big Mick - looking forward to it. It's a seven week wait (hand made) but the 4/5 yard ones just don't hang the same. If you don't have the full length you may as well cover it with trousers.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:48 AM

Austrians! Huh. Next they'll be saying they were the first to put feathers in their hats.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:55 AM

Women have been trying to talk me out of a kilt for years.

Layah, lots of men wear kilts in California -- pop around the San Fran and visit Castro Street.

But you UKers don't get the REAL thing for men (and women): shotgun chaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:00 AM

And there was poor little me thinking of buying a kilt - just can't make me mind up which tartan to go for. But it seems it would either drive the ladies wild or destroy my ego...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:02 AM

Mmmmmm.... I like those but my husband thinks I'm hopeless 'cause I just asked him why those models were wearing the jeans!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:36 AM

EPN, why go with a tartan? I prefer the solid colors. Although I have been thinking about the Irish Diaspora tartan.

I just enjoy wearing a kilt, even though it isn't all that traditional among the Irish. I usually don't try to wear a tartan, because my folks wouldn't. Kind of like puttin' on airs and all. Maybe a County or Irish National, but the idea of the Irish Diaspora tartan does appeal to me. But usually it is dark green or black for my tastes.

I did have a first at a gig that I played recently. A woman asked the age old question, and I told her that I wear 'em commando style. Apparently she didn't believe that because a little later, as I was talking to someone else, she comes up and lifts it and looks. She let out a little "Oh....." and dropped it like it was red hot. The women was embarrassed as hell, and when I went back onstage for the next set, I was merciless. She was my foil for the rest of the night. LOL.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:42 AM

Suppose...just suppose...I could talk someone into make shotgun chaps in tartan leather.... A little sporran in front to both flip up and to keep out the cold, perhaps with an inclinometer to express inclination....

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:06 AM

Personally I prefer dark tartans (Black Watch, Day Gordon. etc) to solid colours.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:23 AM

Okay, I will admit that some guys wouldn't look good in a kilt, but for one thing most of the guys I see in kilts are dancers, who all have good legs, and secondly, I would put up with some not so great guys in kilts if it would encourage the rest of them to wear kilts. See if you make them think they all look good they won't worry that They might be the ugly one.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:23 AM

Oh, that guest is me.
Layah

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:32 AM

Burl Ives once remarked, "The kilt is the only suitable garment for a man of my proportions."

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 11:41 AM

Lime green thong and a sprouting potato - no wonder she cried "Oh"!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: sian, west wales
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 12:44 PM

Davet, I'm afraid that being Welsh doesn't help you escape kilts

There'll be a discombobulating display of knees at this year's St David's Parade in Cardiff, unfortunately. These things are sent to try us.

But, now, if we could get some of this leather action going ... mmmmmm.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 12:55 PM

Could have been a sprouting thong and lime green potato.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Megan L
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:47 PM

Please please please scottish parliment pass a law prohibiting scrawny schilpit wee bauchles, lanky big dreeps or politicians from ever wearing the kilt.

"Now sir you wish to wear a kilt wll you have to take the suitability test."

1   Have you a fine broad hip
2   A pair of lovely strong legs
3   Can you say LOCH
4   And finally sir can you roll your R's

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:06 PM

Wear those shotgun chaps and we can all see if he can roll his Rs.....

Mmm... shotgun chapssssssss


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:16 PM

in case you are not in the know..
utilikilts

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:29 PM

Didn't work, OM, try this one.. Now, I'm not at all sure if I pass Megan's test...I can't say loch properly without going into a coughing spasm...but I'm willing to be judged. Any opinions on this (you have to scroll down)? I'm the one that isn't wearing red tights.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:37 PM

I think Megan's test is a little too strict. While Scottish accents are preferable, I don't have to listen to the guy wearing a kilt, so it's much more important that he just looks good.
Sorry Artbrooks, I don't think I'm qualified to judge anyone over the age of 30.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:38 PM

Over 30? Me?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:38 PM

I do suggest getting a sproran. Kilts just don't look right without it.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PeteBoom
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:39 PM

Mick - stick with saffron... ;-)

Nothing like walking past some of the "modern" kilt sales people attempting to convince you to wear *their* comfortable kilt, not the uncomfortable 9 yard 16oz worsted uniform kilt... and having one of your band mates shred them in pure, unadalterated Aberdeen... and wathcing them look for cover...

Pete - whose new ghillies are incredibly comfy.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Megan L
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:44 PM

What do you mean to strick jings that was the leniant version > lol

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:50 PM

Nice art. Very nice. Coming to the Getaway???

Funny but whenever I think of a man in a kilt I picture littlejohncameron. He wore it well. RIP, love.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:51 PM

Early one morn, a lad wearing a kilt is lying passed out drunk in the ditch. On their usual walk, two little old ladies decide to have some fun. One takes a blue ribbon and ties it around his willie. Later he wakes and stands for a pee. Seeing the ribbon, he says, "Auch, Laddie, I dunno where you've been, but I see you've won first prize!"

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:56 PM

Many years ago I read this article in Forum....

This bloke started out a rover scout. And he went on holiday to Germany and him and his mates, all decided to wear nothing under their kilts - for a bit of a laugh. Sure enough a gang of young slightly inebriated, reasonably well endowed young boy scouts soon became a bit of a tourist attraction themselves, doing displays of formation flashing etc.

However a cautionary note. The narrator found the flashing addictive and now he spends his leisure hours hanging round Edinburgh's many flights of windy steps, introducing willy to every passer by.....

funny what sticks in your mind, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:07 PM

Can any of you ladies explain why guys in kilts get you so much more excited than guys wearing shorts? Same calves, knees, thighs, etc. ~ sometimes even the long socks...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:23 PM

When I'm at a dance (which is where I usually see guys in kilts) they do nice little quick spins and their kilts fly up and you can see a LOT more than you can with guys in shorts...Like the color of their underwear. But that can't be the whole reason. I think it's also partly because of the dressiness of it. Like guys look good in tuxedos, and here we are with tuxedo fancy but shows off their legs. In short, I don't know why kilts are so much sexier than shorts, the just are.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:30 PM

With kilts, the opportunity for a sneaky peach peek is always there.. With shorts, the most you're going to get is an eyeful of unsecured plums....

Why do most guys get all hot under the waistband about black lace panties rather than the Bridget Jones scary stomach hugging knickers?


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:47 PM

OK, I get it. The black lace panties analogy helped...

I also understand the appeal of the formal kilt outfit, with tux jacket (or better yet, tails coat). But that's not what is usually worn in most situations we're talking about here, is it? (Pubs, festivals, etc.)

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:59 PM

No, it's usually worn with a sweaty, beer and curry stained tshirt or vest (singlet) and a luminous orange jacket.

Try wearing a beer stained tshirt and lacy panties and see what happens!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:59 PM

I like the formal and informal, but I do prefer formal. Kilts and bow-ties! What fun

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:29 PM

suppose it depends what you tie the bow round......

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:54 PM

a famous pic --for those ladies who haven't had that cold shower yet

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:59 PM

Waaah, I can't see it. It just says "Image hosted by angelfire"

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:07 PM

Three Irish women walking home one night happen upon a kilt wearing Scotsman laying in the ditch, passed out. The first one takes her walking stick, lifts the kilt for a peek and proclaims, "Not my husband". The second ladie takes her walking stick and lifts the kilt, and says, "You're right"





The third lady then takes her walking stick, lifts the kilt and says, "In fact, he's not even from this village".

I still think utilikilts look shitty. I don't like the blouse of them, and the pockets just don't get it. Casual kilts with a traditional cut, and a sporran are the way to go.

But nothing beats the traditional wool.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Micca
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:07 PM

As an alternative to a curry stained T-shirt, pic 1 on this page is what I wear in Summer above my kilt, which, in this pic,is out of sight below the table, the jacket is a white, Royal Navy officers Mess Jacket.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Micca
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:08 PM

OOPs forgot the link, Click here

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM

I have always prefered to original "great kilt."   Here's
a picture of me wearing my "great kilt" (it's the second picture, the first one was when I had just gotten the word that I was to be let out of my cage).

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Kaleea
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 11:12 PM

Why do we ladies enjoy seeing men in kilts? Hmmmmm . . .
      I suppose it coujld be the fact that many men think kilts are way too WILD, therefore, men in kilts must be wild! Or perhaps it is because the men in kilts bring thoughts of we ladies in beauteous long & flowing mid-evil times type gowns with lots of cleavage, & being saved by a knight in a wool tartan kilt. Or maybe we can't reveal such things to the menfolk, else they find out too much about what women really think.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 11:39 PM

Every year I go to the Ligonier Highland games for the scenery and I do not mean Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands.   
There is nothing in this world like a well formed man in a kilt. I love to watch the hammer throw. They spin around for that one, in kilts, of course.

Many years ago, at an S.C.A. event, a suitably kilted Scot met a woman who asked what he was wearing under it. The Scot was fairly drunk, so he pulled up his kilt and showed her. She screamed and hid her face like she'd never seen one before. (She'd seen several.)
Pleased with the reaction, when he met a foppish cavalier, he pulled his kilt up again, with a suitable whoop.
The fop looked, shook his head and said, "Is that all."



Now I risk being annoying, but, my freshman year in college I was dating a senior named, alas Bill Bailey. We weren't serious about each other. But several of the girls predicted our marriage, since he WAS a senior, after all.
I made the mistake of telling one of them that I wanted my bridegroom to wear a kilt if I ever got married.
"Does Bill know that!" she demanded.
"You better tell him!"
"It might be against his religion!"
No, I didn't tell Bill. Neither did she. She told his sister, which was, let me assure you, infinitely worse.
Of course I didn't marry Bill Bailey, or anyone else.   Though the kilt thing isn't the reason why.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 12:25 AM

Layla--- a Google image search on kilt + "worn under" is all I did to find the pic....I'll bet Google will let you look.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 01:21 AM

Red PVC is scary.....but just imagine see-through vinyl!

Cheers
JennieG who has rather an active imagination.......

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 09:20 AM

ObSongs:

At St Andrews by the sea,

We love our evening walk out on the pier.

At St Andrews by the sea,

When drunks fall off, we give a mighty cheer.

The bejantines are bashful when the kilts fly overhead --

In fact we've seen some pretty faces turn from pink to red,

But God help man the day they turn their heads away instead

At St Andrews by the sea!

-- Heard at St Andrews University, Scotland, 1959. Bejantine = female freshman.

When I was in a commune in Virginia (1972-1981) I made miniskirts for myself by ripping the inseams out of shorts & resewing them front & back. They had atachments for carrying various implements. I wore various things under them, from jockstraps to quilted pants, according to the season. I have sometimes toyed with the idea of adapting them for the outside world by equipping them with a button & buttonhole or a hook & eye for fastening front to back thru the crotch for instant quasirespectability.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Happiness is touch and go: Some of us touch, and we all go. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 10:57 AM

Red PVC is scary.....but just imagine see-through vinyl!

Cheers
JennieG who has rather an active imagination.......

I can clearly see your nuts.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 10:40 PM

This is true, Liz. All jokes aside, I do like to see a nicely-built man in a kilt.

Sean Connery wears a kilt well. Even without the chocolate.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 02:05 AM

My uncle joined the Highland Light Infantry; he got kilt

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 04:00 AM

Oh Jennie, now you've done it.....


The film 'The Avengers' was on the other week..... Sean Connery in full Highland dress (it was his own, so I understand)... ooooooooohhhhhhhhh...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 12:03 PM

Yesterday I was at a Scottish Country dance competition. A shortage of chairs gave me a wonderful new insight: Sitting on the floor is the best position to watch men in kilts dancing. I do love those spins *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 12:20 PM

Serious question:
There is a fairly famous oil painting of some people sitting in front of a hearth warming themselves. The men in kilts have their skirts lifted and a woman in the picture has turned away modestly.
Anyone know the name of the painting or the artist?

SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:38 PM

No but there is a Brueghel painting where a lady is doing the same thing and the men are doing anything BUT turn away!

I can't recall which painting it is, but it's in the tent in the bottom left corner.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: The Walrus
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:43 PM

What is all this with the 'little kilt'(philabaeg*?).
Surely the only thing to wear is the 'Great Kilt'? (philamhor*?)

It serves as both upper and nether garment (and if the wearer is a little short, cape or hood), as well as blanket, provides it's own capacious pockets (depending on the folding) and, unlike the little kilt requires no waiting time to make once the cloth has been obtained.

I'll confess I've only ever worn one twice, but found it quite comfortable (and yes it can be worn with jackets etc, but doesn't need them).

Walrus

* Apologies to Gaeliic speakers, I neither speak nor write the language

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM

That's what I like, Walrus -- the fillmemore.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 06:45 AM

Kilts are great, I think we've agreed this. Especially with a tux and bow tie, but what about the sporran? It is essential but what sort? Myself I favour the semi dress sporrans which have some fur but not to much! Full dress sporrans look a little silly IMHO.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,jock
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 07:38 AM

WHAT? £350 quid for eight yards of plastic sheeting! Think I will go into buisiness selling see-through ones made from cling film!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 08:42 AM

I think I'm going to start marketing see-through sporrans.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 10:43 AM

I've just bought two pairs of Kilt socks and a Sporran! I'm now wondering why, I think I blame this thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,jock
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:19 AM

Crystal are you missing something?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: mindblaster
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:22 AM

Something strange about men wanting to wear skirts. Sexual perversion of the Scotch variety. Don't let them near your kids.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PeteBoom
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:28 AM

The kids will be fine. Its your sheep you must keep an eye on...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 01:22 PM

A man in a kilt is sexy because a man who can wear a kilt is content and secure in his masculinity. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Micca
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:21 PM

Do you know why men in kilts wear a knife (Scian Dhu) down the sock?




Its for piercing the ears of Cretins who call the kilt a SKIRT!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Layah
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:59 PM

Is that an alternate spelling for sgian dubh, or just a guess? Peircing someone's ears is possibly one of the oddest punishments I've heard of. I wouldn't expect ears to be something a guy with a knife would attack after another guy accuses him of wearing a skirt.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 04:44 PM

And there was me thinking it was for prising dogs noses out...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 05:13 PM

And I thought it was for emergencies...when you've had a bit too much and can't seem to be able to find the fly.......

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,English
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 06:45 PM

Cretin or not, it's still a skirt you Scotch wanker! Micca ha! ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Micca
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 07:24 PM

That is a rich comment, English, from someone whose National Dress is a dirty torn pair of Jeans( American) and a stained t shirt!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 07:30 PM

Last Summer, Lady Hillary and I went to a "Hawaiian" wedding. The invite included to wear "something Hawaiian." Lady Hillary made [at my request] a lava lava. I got comments on my good legs. I am considering having a less formal one made for sailing, as it was very comfortable.

During the evening, several women asked me the usual question--Is there anything worn under your kilt, lad? The answer, of course was--Nae, it's as good as it ever was.

At the New York Boat show, I was talking with the kiltie lad who was demoing Johnnie Walker Scotch. His answer--Lipstick, if I'm lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 03:35 AM

For informal summer wear the Hawaian shirt, preferably gaudy, is the perfect compement for the kilt, preferably with none of the same colours as the shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 04:13 AM

And of course you have to wear flashes

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 04:14 AM

but I'm really tyring for my first hundredth post

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 04:15 AM

or it could be this

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 04:15 AM

100 I thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,English
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 09:18 AM

Blimey those scotch kilt wearers also have the ability to see through space and time. How does poofy skirt wearer know that I am wearing dirty american jeans? How does he/she know what my national dress is without knowing my nationality? Just because my name is English, doesn't mean I'm from England! Just the same as if my name was Scot or France or China. All this doesn't distract from the point that kilts are for cross dressing perverts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 09:32 AM

Ahh, guest English, my reputation proceeds me.
We must sit down sometime and you can tell me all about those nasty,nasty, Xdressing preverts and I can give you a practical demonstration drawn on my experience and expertise.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 09:44 AM

You tell 'em they're cross-dressing perverts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 09:50 AM

>Crystal are you missing something?<

Yes, two chain belts, Two pairs of flashes. One Prince Charlie Jacket (aledigidly) two bow ties, a belt and buckle and another two sporrans!

Not to mention two more kilts.

I'm the unnofficial keeper of the Haggis and Kilts for Dundee unis dance society! Unfortunatly the various bits nominally under my control are scattered across the country!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,English
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 10:14 AM

Has anybody noticed that the kilt-wearers are also very mean & tight fisted, self righteous, ginger haired, whisky swilling, porrige quaffing, squeaky voiced, puffy skinned pimply herberts?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 10:28 AM

Yes I've noticed that. What would you like to do about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,English
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 11:16 AM

Not much that can be done. They're everywhere - running the unions, the government, organized crime, paedophile rings, banks, drug cartels. If you mess with them, the bastards go for your family. I've heard that it's a slow painful death that they inflict on non-kiltwearing normals.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: mindblaster
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 11:25 AM

Prince Charles wears a kilt and is neither Scotch nor a paedo ... I think?

Lots of great peolple wore them - Mahatma Ghandi, Andy Stewart, Ian Paisley.

Och Loverly garb - The English are just jealous!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 12:15 PM

YOU go tell 'em, English!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Megan L
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 01:18 PM

Mindblaster get yer blasted mind round this it is Scottish or Scots, only the amber nectar is called Scotch. And as for English we ken whaur ye are :)

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: mindblaster
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 01:36 PM

Sorry Megs I thought Scotch was a contraction of the word Scottish. I stand corrected. My best mate Jonesy is Welsh and he reckons that there is such a thing as a Welsh kilt - is this true?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Boab
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 01:00 AM

Megan!~ Dinnae be sae touchy! Gin a chiel wha's sae sairly oot o' luck as tae be brocht intae this warl North o' John O' Groats, Sooth o' Gretna, West o' Oban or East o' Dunbar haes a keek at me an' spiers-"Are You Scotch?", Ah'm gonnae say "Aye!"

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 04:16 AM

Mindblaster....yes there is a Welsh Kilt....a friend of mine recently had one made for him in his family tartan and wore it for the new years eve party we all went to.....and he wasn't the only one wearing a kilt either. Both men looked very smart.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 08:55 AM

There's a chap of Canadian-Chinese descent living in South Bend, Indiana who plays the Scottish pipes. While his pipe band plays in tartan, he would like his wife to make him a kilt for his ancestry -- red silk with a golden dragon.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:36 PM

I could have bought a sewing pattern for a kilt today.... so if anyone wants a bespoke kilt, in anything but tartan, I can always go back and see if it's in stock.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 03:27 AM

LTS yes, yes, yes. Go back and get it. I've got so many wonderful lengths of cloth just waiting to be made into kilts. I've always wondered why I buy them.
Mmmmhhhh.... see through kilt, musn't forget to wear sporran.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 04:07 AM

Well if you paint your bits white with face paint and tattoo a nice gold clasp just above the 'hairline', you won't need the sporran!

It costs around £7.00 and can be ordered from Simplicity....

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 04:09 AM

Bugger, hit the wrong button. Simplicity Kilt pattern and scroll down.

I'll have a go at almost anything once..... for a price!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Davetnova
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 04:40 AM

It's only a four yarder but worth a think about.
Mmmhhh.... sheer silk slid....stop this right now!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:41 AM

Well, they really don't feel right unless they're a heavy fabric. If you try moving in a light weight one, they go everywhere. Why do you think all the non tartan ones are heavy fabrics: non-tartan wool, pvc, leather etc. Of course, if you could find 16 oz silk, it could well work...

I'm just a dancer, so need to be able to move in them, but the millitary kilts, and the ones the bands wear are even heavier than normal ones.

Bunnahbhain

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:55 AM

Bunnie - I know they need a certain weight. I'm very fond of my ex military one, it makes my "normal" kilts feel very inadequate and doubly so for the leisure ones. But the thought of that soft silk slidi... no stop it! You've set me off again:)

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 06:50 PM

There are little tiny lead weights available for curtains, and I understand that the Queen has a similar thing sewn into the hem of her skirts to prevent any 'Marilyn Munroe' moments.... basically a lot of tiny lead beads tied together in even spacing, they're inserted into hems to make them hang heavier.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: EBarnacle
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 07:36 PM

To add to my list of perversions, Lady Hillary and I enjoyed haggis at our local Bobby Burns celebration this year. Arr Ye Mon enow for it?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 08:29 PM

Does this seem like the basis for a tounge twister?

   six silk klits seem sexy

Can somebody else do better?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: artbrooks
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 08:38 PM

Did you intend to say klits? If not, what word were you misspelling?

...crawls back into his corner.....

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: MaineDog
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:15 PM

My wife used to build kilts professionally. She always recomended 13 oz material for dancers. Sixteen is too hot, stiff, and heavy for dancing.
Eleven oz is hard to work with, and it flies around too much (sorry, lassies). The kilt pin should be heavy enough to add a little control to the swing of the kilt. It does not close the kilt, but merely pins to one edge. A properly executed kwt can still be exciting, though.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PeteBoom
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:48 PM

Of course. I'll be in my kilt Saturday night with the rest of the folks from the band, playing for another pipe band's fundraiser. Waistcoats, white shirt, no jacket - the hall will be too warm and it is an informal do. I'll be the one with the big drum. ;-)

Knights of Columbus Hall in Davison, Michigan if yer interested. They promised to have good beer on tap. We drained two barrels of Guinness last year by around 8:30. They said they were out of Guinness, so we asked if they'd get the good beer out then. Nope - Miller Lite after that... Oh well.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 09:58 PM

six silk klits seem sexy

Sounds like a Freudian (silk) slip to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 04:24 AM

I was just after something in tune with the normal mudcat attitude. I have to read the smart comments three times before I spotted my mistake.

Besides, as I've been told by Crystal, and other people I ought to listen to on this, kilts are sexy on dancers. Or off them...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Crystal
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 06:35 AM

ooooh yes. kilts are VERY sexy on dancers!

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: woodsie
Date: 21 May 06 - 06:15 PM

Is this real?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Scottie
Date: 21 May 06 - 08:48 PM

Since Woodsie has chosen to reprise this thread, let me explain that the kilt is by definition A TROUSER. (That's why pants are a PAIR of TROUSERS!) The sporran is a purse worn on the front of the kilt so that we can make sure than anybody else's hand that is in that area has our best intentions at heart. The sgian dubh is for dealing with those whose hands are there with bad intent and for those who dare to call it a skirt.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: MaineDog
Date: 21 May 06 - 09:03 PM

My good wife has done it again--I now have a Maine State Tartan kilt that goes well with my purple mudcat tee shirt. I'll wear them at Old Songs if it's not too hot.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 May 06 - 02:41 PM

Since someone asked, yes this is real, mudcat style...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Charmain
Date: 22 May 06 - 03:00 PM

Kilts are fab cos only really manly men wear them and when they're sexy manly scots with hillwalkers calves its simply heaven...

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 May 06 - 03:15 PM

We've all heard the other question asked over & over, but what about this one:

What does a feller **not** wear under his kilt?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 May 06 - 04:36 PM

A lime green thong.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: PeteBoom
Date: 22 May 06 - 04:38 PM

Scads of kilts in Alma, Michigan this coming weekend. US Pipe Band Championships - throw a stone and you'll hit someone in a kilt. Unfortunately, too many should not be in one. ;)

Yes, there is a dance (actually several) and yes, many kilted men will be dancing...   8O

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Funny Farmer
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 04:25 AM

How much does a good kilt cost?

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 03:45 PM

How much does a good kilt cost?

Where are you?
Here in Edinburgh, a good kilt, ie one made to measure in a sensible weight tartan, will cost about £300, and you will have to wait 2-8 weeks for it, depending on time of year, and which firm you went to. I would imagine you would pay about the same, or a little more all over the UK, but they'll be harder to find. Elsewith, I know nothing more than google does...

BTW, do not even think about getting one if you live within range of Scotrail. Sitting for almost 2 hours in a kilt is not comfortable at all. And the actual journey is about 5 miles as the crow flies. Grrrrr.....

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Teribus
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 07:31 PM

Micca - 14 Feb 05 - 02:21 PM

Do you know why men in kilts wear a knife (Scian Dhu) down the sock?

Yes Micca I do:

Any member of a Clan be he Clansman or "Broken Man" of the Clan had the automatic right of audience with the Clan Chief. As assassinations were not uncommon it was considered reasonable for anyone going in to see the Clan Chief should be unarmed. But a Highlander could never be "unarmed" so he was shown into a room where he divested himself of all his weapons - with the exception of his "Skien Dhub" (Which literally translated means "Dark Knife" - "Secret Weapon") The Highlander would take this knife from its normal hiding place and put it down the top of his right stocking. In this way the Clan Chief knew where the man's only weapon was and the Highlanders right of being armed was maintained.

Now at these interviews the Clan Chief sat with a drawn sword on the table and latterly a brace of cocked pistols - so God help the poor bugger who went in there to have a chat with the Clan Chief and then felt the irresistable urge to scratch his right knee.

The sign of a Scot dressed in a Kilt with a Skien Dhub in the top of his right stocking is a sign of goodwill and peaceful intent.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 Jul 06 - 11:08 PM

I was at the Oak Park Highland Games a couple of weeks ago, enjoying the scenery. Though the guy in the leather kilt was a bit disconcerting. (That CAN'T be comfortable!)
Then I saw him. His kilt was orange and black on a white background. I think the sett was Ancient Upchuck, if that wasn't bad enough, the man wearing it was only slightly taller than he was wide. Then, to add insult to injury, when he bent over you could see his depend undergarment. It didn't QUITE put me off men in kilts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Scoville
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 05:47 PM

Always zillions of utilikilts at the Art Car Parade. I'm not sure why except that kilts are still a novelty in the U.S. and the Art Car Parade specializes in Counterculture for the Whole Family.

I don't think leather anything sounds like a good idea, especially in the summer, but beyond that, I always think men look great in kilts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 04:15 PM

One thing that again brings itself to my attention, no matter how badly they swarm Midges never nibble your nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: Micca
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 05:05 PM

Maybe they are repelled by Betty Swallocks?(Dr Spooner)

Subject: RE: BS: Kilts
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 09:21 AM

To Betty Swallocks.

Betty,
Oh Betty,
I love you.
There, I've said it
(Just to make myself plain)
For with one soft carress
From your sweet flavoured lips,
I need never fear Midges again.