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Starting a new kilt thread (it is February, after all!).

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Sporrans - it's what badgers are just dieing to be!

The sign of a true Scottish gentlemen?

One who moves his sporran from the front to the side when the dancing changes from Eightsome Reel to a slow waltz...

(And a true Scotsman doesn't keep money in his sporran in the hope that someone else will buy the next round of drinks - not suggesting anyone might be mean, just 'canny' with their money...)
 
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Anamiri said:
As my dad says, deep pockets and short arms
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No pockets in a kilt, but certainly 'prudent' - being 'thrifty' is a virtue surely?

(And in reality it easier to keep folding money in the elastic of your sock flags/ 'garters' for when it is your round - the change goes either to the bar staff or the charity tin on the bar; it leaves more space in the sporran for hip flask, clean handkerchief and dance card - and not a mobile phone in sight ).
 
I think there might be something to that added fertility thing. Pretty much because when I see you "ordinary" men in a kilt this is how I actually DO see you...Plus now I really want to look up under your skirts.
 

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Coming late to this very amusing party...but just to say:
David said:
trousers are not made for our anatomy!!
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They're not made for anyone's anatomy.

And to ask: So...what if you are a mixed up person with Canadian/American parents, with warring ancestry coming from both sides, with some Scots-Irish thrown in for the sake of confusion?
Whose tartan would you wear?
 
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This is great. I grew up in Clan Okee as in Muskogee Oklahoma USA. I never really considered my families ethnic heritage until recently when our family was traced to Clan McGregor in Scotland. I am now seriously considering purchasing a kilt with the McGregor tartan. But the question is....would it look good with my cowboy boots, spurs and Stetson?
 
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Recently, genealogy experts have done the math. Any person who was living about 1000 years ago who has a living descendant, is ancestor to every living person. (I'd assume this to be along continental lines.)

So pick some member of the Irish-Scot nobility of 1000 AD and wear their tartan!

The Scots were Irish, pushed the Picts out of the western coastal area when they colonized.

Buen camino, cousins.
 
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I'd be very interested to watch from the sidelines while you debated that point with the Irish Guards
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Historically, the insurgents that the Romans encountered north of the Hadians wall and who they called Scoti, were invading Gaels from Ireland :
- "By the 5th century, the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata had emerged in western Scotland. This kingdom was inevitably conquered and consumed by Pictland, spreading its culture to it in the generations preceding and following its conquest. The name came to be applied to all subjects of this now predominantly Goidelic speaking Pictish kingdom – hence the modern terms Scot, Scottish and Scotland.[10] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoti

As a holder of the P312 "Western Atlantic" Celtic gene, even I could wear tartan !!
 
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VNwalking said:
And to ask: So...what if you are a mixed up person with Canadian/American parents, with warring ancestry coming from both sides, with some Scots-Irish thrown in for the sake of confusion?
Whose tartan would you wear?
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You can exercise your Canadian heritage without risk. All the provinces in Canada have their own tartan, as does the country as a whole. I know from experience that the Nova Scotian tartan is very popular in that province & is seen in many ways. Nobody will mind if you wear it.
 
My partner and I walked our first Camino in May & June and both wore quick-drying utility kilts.

One was (so I'm told) an Irish-style kilt (it had a flat panel at the back instead of pleats), and the other was designed in America for hiking the Appalachian trail.

As well as having the two usual side pockets on my kilt, it also had top pockets like you would expect in a pair of jeans, which were super handy and I absolutely miss when I'm wearing a different utility kilt.

Obviously the airflow was very much welcomed when hiking over May & June as well .

I blogged about our experience, but it seems as a new member I'm unable to link to the post. Google "The kilt guys wearing a kilt on the Camino" and visit the sudocamino dot com link for details, including more on the kilt specifics and where we purchased them from.
 
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