@Mamapolo2016 You’re right, although I first remember seeing kilts on tv and Pop explained about them. My middle sister and I were with Mom running errands near the Scottish Rite Temple and saw a man wearing a kilt. We were waiting outside a store for our mother and Sis (who hadn’t seen the tv show) commented on "a man wearing a dress" (we were 7 and 5, I think). I told her it wasn’t a "dress"but a kilt. 😄
Am answering this on behalf of my hubby. We live in Scotland but he's English. He loves wearing his kilt any time. Most Scots here just wear them at weddings, Burns suppers, funerals. So yes, he wears one and is having another made up in my tartan as he doesn't have one of his own 🤗
Nope. To me, fashion is like a religion I don't believe in. Yeah, I'll wear khakis or a suit when my wife tells me to (just like uncovering my head in a church), but jeans & sneakers are very comfortable and practical. For a lark I wore a dress at a New Years party once years ago; it was less comfortable and less practical. So I'm not gonna let "fashion" get me into impractical clothing.
I'm about a half Scots and half Irish, so culturally I'd feel appropriate, but I wouldn't because I'm a pants guy - jeans and when I go nuts, khaki's for dress up! I've only owned a couple of pair of men shorts and even those I wore once or twice and that was it.
@SW-User This is basically what a friend told me when I asked, because I saw someone I knew was Irish wearing one.
Irish Kilts History It is true: the origin of kilts lies in Scotland. Here the highland dress, also known as the belted plaid or great kilt (also known as feileadh mor meaning large wrap in Gaelic) emerged during the 16th century. The word kilt is a Scots word which means to tuck up clothes around one’s body. Originally, the great kilt was a full-length piece of clothing, which could even be worn as a cloak wrapped over the shoulder. The history of kilts in Ireland is less ancient. In fact, Irish kilts are a modern invention, which nevertheless have their own right in Irish history. Some scholars date the earliest adoption of Scottish kilts by Irish nationalists in the 1850s. By the end of the 19th century, Celtic Revivalists had more or less successfully adopted it as a symbol of Irish or Gaelic identity. During the “Gaelic Revival”, an Irish national consciousness began to grow and with it, the urge to counteract British colonial culture in Ireland. Many areas of Irish culture were ‘rediscovered’, be it sports (the Gaelic Athletic Association aka the GAA), the Irish language, Irish literature, Irish arts and crafts and more. In a nutshell: The Irish kilts history really begins with the Irish nationalist movement. In the 20th century, at the dawn of the First World War, kilts were soon adopted by pipers and pipe bands in the Irish military (for example the still existing Black Raven Pipe Band or the Youghal Pipe Band). Pipe Bands were an important pool of nationalist recruitment, for example the Irish Volunteers (later transformed into the IRA).
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@bijouxbroussard yes, I understand and appreciate that knowledge, but we don't wear kilts, it's not normal in our culture
@robingoodfellow Your Siciliano DNA is likely to include some Celtic blood, because they are one of the multitude of sea-faring people who have settled on the island at one time or another.
@robingoodfellow @dancingtongue I was also thinking the Spartans and Gladiator get ups looked like Kilts to me - https://scottishkiltshop.com/products/italian-tartan - and I agree while Spain is more clear, there are linguistic ties between the European languages. The people warred and then married at some point.
We're going down such an insane timeline that if you told me that the Scots - hellbent to rejoin the EU by force, invading it and imposing the kilt on any conquered population - by 2030 were at the doorstep of Rome, I might even believe you.
I have absolutely no Scottish ancestry, so I would not be drawn to this.
But I do know an American of Scottish heritage who does wear one occasionally. He wore it, years ago, on the day that Scotland was voting on whether to leave the UK!
@malizz Actually, that brings a question to mind: If kilts became popular in the rest of the world, would you be okay with that, or would you see it as an appropriation of something uniquely Scottish ?
My friend married a scot and he and his groomsmen all wore kilts. Traditionally the tartan is specific to their clan and also traditionally then men do not wear anything underneath...... this is true 😏🥴 They are usually worn to events, you won't see them going out for a walk or going to work in a kilt
In Greece there are men who wear a skirt as part of traditional dress and also some parts of asia the men wear a sarong.
Also some guys now do wear skirts, i have seen it in london.. but it is a rarity.
