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Kilts in school?
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I don't understand utilikilts? Why would you wear a skirt when you're working or whatever? Formal kind of things, I can kind of see, since I wear a skirt occasionally myself, but I'd never wear one when I was trying to get anything that involved moving around done.
Hmm..that's not true, I guess. I occasionally wear long skirts around the house in the summer when I clean or whatever, but not a skirt the length of those. They don't seem very practical. Why not just cargo shorts? You don't have to worry about them riding up.
Hmm..that's not true, I guess. I occasionally wear long skirts around the house in the summer when I clean or whatever, but not a skirt the length of those. They don't seem very practical. Why not just cargo shorts? You don't have to worry about them riding up.
Strings
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Barbara, in all honesty, a kilt (to me) is just more comfortable than any pants or shorts invented. I wear one all the time during run-up to ren Faire: up to and including while redshingling the roof of the shop. Wasn't all that difficult to keep from giving a show, and the extra bit of fabric helped to kneel on and protect my knees...
LoneStranger
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Well, I guess the school should be glad that the young man wasn't Greek and attempting to wear the uniform of crack Greek troops ca. 1900 and earlier.
Cute little skirts kinda like a ballerina, tights, and funny little slippers with curly toes. (Can't narrow down but a picture was in a recent Shotgun News or Gun Digest article about Greek Military Cartriges.)
Again, making ASSumptions about people because of the particular clothes they wear can and probably should get you seriously injured.
Also think of a Samurai warrior and that he wears Kimono just like Geisha's do.
Cute little skirts kinda like a ballerina, tights, and funny little slippers with curly toes. (Can't narrow down but a picture was in a recent Shotgun News or Gun Digest article about Greek Military Cartriges.)
Again, making ASSumptions about people because of the particular clothes they wear can and probably should get you seriously injured.
Also think of a Samurai warrior and that he wears Kimono just like Geisha's do.
Preacherman
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So, your boyfriend does the roof for you?
gremlin_bros
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kilts
i am of Scottish decent and my wife loves me in my kilt. and a note to you guys who have a hard time meeting woman try wearing a kilt trust me you will have no problems meeting women. i think its because woman have no self control when faced with the awesome power of a man in a kilt he he he heres a site where i get a few of my kilts their cheaper than traditional but very well made i will get a traditional tartan but till then this is a nice way to celebrate my heritage http://www.utilikilts.com/
i am of Scottish decent and my wife loves me in my kilt. and a note to you guys who have a hard time meeting woman try wearing a kilt trust me you will have no problems meeting women. i think its because woman have no self control when faced with the awesome power of a man in a kilt he he he heres a site where i get a few of my kilts their cheaper than traditional but very well made i will get a traditional tartan but till then this is a nice way to celebrate my heritage http://www.utilikilts.com/
Gunsnrovers
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So long as this kid dressed formally for the dance, I see no issue.
I haven't seen a picture of how he was dressed so it's hard to say. I'd stop a kid from coming to formal dance looking like an idiot. I'm not against dress codes for schools.
I wear a kilt regularly. Mostly one of my utilikilts. Frankly, it's too hot for a wool kilt here in Los Angeles. My wool kilts are used for more formal occasions. I can't wear them now as my lower back is still trashed. Just too much weight right where my injury occured.
As for CCW, I can't as I'm in LA, but it would be very easy in a utilikilt, They are belted unlike a traditional kilt. Any OWB or IWB would work. The large exterior pockets would also lend themselves to a nice small semi-auto.
I haven't seen a picture of how he was dressed so it's hard to say. I'd stop a kid from coming to formal dance looking like an idiot. I'm not against dress codes for schools.
I wear a kilt regularly. Mostly one of my utilikilts. Frankly, it's too hot for a wool kilt here in Los Angeles. My wool kilts are used for more formal occasions. I can't wear them now as my lower back is still trashed. Just too much weight right where my injury occured.
As for CCW, I can't as I'm in LA, but it would be very easy in a utilikilt, They are belted unlike a traditional kilt. Any OWB or IWB would work. The large exterior pockets would also lend themselves to a nice small semi-auto.
Protector
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You want Kilt Prejudice? Try wearing one to law enforcement training!
As a devout Utilikilt wearer and 17 year LEO, I love to spaz out my fellow LEO's at various training conferences. When I wore mine to a Pacific Tacitcal training session here in Washington, I thought my classmates were going to sh*t. It helped that I knew the instructor, Rob DeGroot, who pretended not to notice anything was unusual.
For the first 2 hours the other students frantically pretended nothing was out of the ordinary. Finally, at the second break, one of the guys got the guts to ask "Did you lose a bet or something?" My reply of "No. Why do you ask?" left him totally flustered, at which point Rob and I both started laughing and everyone finally relaxed.
If you go to www.pacifictactical.com and click on 'training classes' and scroll down to the second picture, you will see me in all my glory, demonstrating my Striker 12 gauge. They didn't have the guts to show my knobby knees
claiming they just didn't have the room for a full length picture, but those in the know will definitely recognize a Nightwatch Camo Utilikilt.
As to Utilkilt CCW there is plenty of room for toys, you just have to be really creative...and realize everyone is going to be looking at you, so it has to work. For winter days, when I am wearing a jacket, I have beatiful old S&W Mod. 19, done up in 70's gunfighter style, with the bobbed hammer, relieved trigger gaurd, stippled backframe and faux ivory grips. It just seems to fit.
At this same training someone commented that with Mod.19 I only had six shots, which was pretty brave since I was 'wearing a skirt in the bad part of town.' Rob know's I like hidden toys and gave me the go ahead to show them. I produced 2 speedloaders and a can of OC from the coat, my backup titanium S&W .38 snubbie from the thigh holster, the speed strip of .38 special reloads, 2 tactical folders and 3 Hideaway knives from various folds and pleats. The joke for the rest of the class was "Don't mess with old guys in skirts!"
As a devout Utilikilt wearer and 17 year LEO, I love to spaz out my fellow LEO's at various training conferences. When I wore mine to a Pacific Tacitcal training session here in Washington, I thought my classmates were going to sh*t. It helped that I knew the instructor, Rob DeGroot, who pretended not to notice anything was unusual.
For the first 2 hours the other students frantically pretended nothing was out of the ordinary. Finally, at the second break, one of the guys got the guts to ask "Did you lose a bet or something?" My reply of "No. Why do you ask?" left him totally flustered, at which point Rob and I both started laughing and everyone finally relaxed.
If you go to www.pacifictactical.com and click on 'training classes' and scroll down to the second picture, you will see me in all my glory, demonstrating my Striker 12 gauge. They didn't have the guts to show my knobby knees
claiming they just didn't have the room for a full length picture, but those in the know will definitely recognize a Nightwatch Camo Utilikilt.
As to Utilkilt CCW there is plenty of room for toys, you just have to be really creative...and realize everyone is going to be looking at you, so it has to work. For winter days, when I am wearing a jacket, I have beatiful old S&W Mod. 19, done up in 70's gunfighter style, with the bobbed hammer, relieved trigger gaurd, stippled backframe and faux ivory grips. It just seems to fit.
At this same training someone commented that with Mod.19 I only had six shots, which was pretty brave since I was 'wearing a skirt in the bad part of town.' Rob know's I like hidden toys and gave me the go ahead to show them. I produced 2 speedloaders and a can of OC from the coat, my backup titanium S&W .38 snubbie from the thigh holster, the speed strip of .38 special reloads, 2 tactical folders and 3 Hideaway knives from various folds and pleats.
The joke for the rest of the class was "Don't mess with old guys in skirts!"mustanger98
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Preacherman said:It's all part of the anti-violence drive in schools... after all, someone might get kilt!
I haven't read past this one yet, but I recall a joke about the reason they call it a kilt... it's because the first guy to wear one kilt the first guy that laughed at him for wearing it.
Strings
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actually Protector, I think your picture is (or was) on the UK site. Nice to meet ya! If you're ever going Wisconsin way, PM me ahead of time, we'll treat ya to coffee...
Soybomb: the ultimate in breezes is wearing a kilt on a motorcycle. Only did it the once, and vowed NEVER to do so again. Not because of any modesty issues, but because you're VERY aware of each and every piece of whatever on the road...
Soybomb: the ultimate in breezes is wearing a kilt on a motorcycle. Only did it the once, and vowed NEVER to do so again. Not because of any modesty issues, but because you're VERY aware of each and every piece of whatever on the road...
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Kilt-boy likely already knew the dress code & decided to break it. Who cares if his kilt-wearing was in accordance with some historical or re-enactors' standard? Send him home to be dressed properly by his mommy, since he can't manage the task.
I really don't care if callow youths feel stifled when told they can not wear their kilts in school. School's purpose is not to let every wiseacre and unemployable anti-authoritarian type act out every lame idea that pops into their head.
Kilt-boy likely already knew the dress code & decided to break it. Who cares if his kilt-wearing was in accordance with some historical or re-enactors' standard? Send him home to be dressed properly by his mommy, since he can't manage the task.
I really don't care if callow youths feel stifled when told they can not wear their kilts in school. School's purpose is not to let every wiseacre and unemployable anti-authoritarian type act out every lame idea that pops into their head.
TallPine
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Of course not - the purpose of public schools is to ingraine herd mentality and obedience to your masters
jfruser said:
How is a kilt any worse than a skirt? Females have the choice nowadays. Why not the men? Heck, I think that a kilt looks better than those baggy jeans with the underwear showing.
Without the occasional incident like this, schools will simply continue to expand their attempts to fit all students into the same mold.
And smash every free thinker and innovator into the mold, huh? I hardly think that wearing a kilt is an indicator of unemployability. Heck, this board is often very anti-authoritarian.
I don't mind this stuff at a private school much, but at a public?
yonderway
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LoneStranger said:
Fustanella
The unbifurcated (skirted) garment worn by samurai was called "hakama". There is a more modern garment that goes by the same name and superficially looks similar although the modern one used by martial artists is bifurcated (has pantlegs). The samurai hakama had no legs.
Unbifurcated garments are a proud tradition of warriors in many societies. It's usually considered a major faux pas to refer to them as "skirts". "Kilt" is specific to the Scottish highlander garment, and to call it anything else (including and especially "skirt") is usually considered a grave insult that could very likely lead to fisticuffs if it is taken as an insult.
The Germans in WW1 called the Black Watch regiment the "Ladies From Hell". They would see the kilts, hear the bagpipes, and suffer demoralization as the brave kilted soldiers pushed forward.
yonderway
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gremlin_bros said:
I used to hear this a lot before I'd go out in public kilted, and honestly I thought it was a joke. I am a big ugly hairy man. Think of shrek with thick hair, a beard, and a nose ring. But I can say that if I weren't happily married, I would have a very rich social life with the ladies. The very first time I wore the kilt in public, I had 8 gorgeous co-eds dancing with me all night and two even propositioned me to go home with them at the end of the night... there was no ambiguity about what they were after... I thanked them for the dance, politely declined, and told them I was going home to my wife. Things like that seem to just happen to me all the time when I'm wearing the kilt.
yonderway
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mustanger98 said:
The way the line goes is something like this...
Pants guy: "Hey nice skirt."
Kilt guy: "It's called a 'kilt'. Do you know why?"
Pants guy: "No, why?"
Kilt guy: "Because that's what I did to the last wee lad that called it a 'skirt'."
yonderway
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jfruser said:
Surely you can't be that ignorant?
I wear a kilt almost daily. Yes, I wear it to the office. I am an IT professional that consults for Fortune 100 companies, and the kilt usually makes a splash in the first hour I'm there but then people forget I'm wearing it. I can't say I see a lot of people doing this in offices but I do know a number of office workers who wear the kilt to work without a problem. I do know some blue collar workers who cannot wear the kilt, but only for safety reasons (i.e. loose fabric getting caught in machinery could be disastrous, at the very least to one's modesty, with the possibility for terrible physical injury).
Every now and then you run into an intolerant ignoramous who can't stand to see a man in a kilt, usually because they lack the cajones to wear one in public themselves. It does, after all, take a certain amount of dignity, self-esteem, and backbone to stand out from the crowd. Something that the hardcore naysayers usually lack in abundance.
Well, as you can see from the pasted piece I took from Wikipedia (highlighting mine), it's more than kilts that we have here... Check out the firearm mentioned. Why, it could be one that now belongs to you or someone else who posts on THR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proedriki_Froura
The Proedriki Froura (????????? ??????, "Presidential Guard") is the name given to the guard unit of the Greek Army. The unit is famous around the world for its unique uniforms, which is designed to be similar to the outfits worn by the klephts who fought the Ottoman occupation of Greece.
Uniform
The basic elements of the uniform are:
The phareon, a scarlet garrison cap with a long black tassel.
A fustanella kilt.
White stockings.
Black garters.
Red tsarouhi clogs.
A leathern cartridge belt and M1 Garand semi-automatic battle rifle, with bayonet.
Oh, and on the issue, I say wear what you want, honor your past, dress with a sense of self.
Frandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proedriki_Froura
The Proedriki Froura (????????? ??????, "Presidential Guard") is the name given to the guard unit of the Greek Army. The unit is famous around the world for its unique uniforms, which is designed to be similar to the outfits worn by the klephts who fought the Ottoman occupation of Greece.
Uniform
The basic elements of the uniform are:
The phareon, a scarlet garrison cap with a long black tassel.
A fustanella kilt.
White stockings.
Black garters.
Red tsarouhi clogs.
A leathern cartridge belt and M1 Garand semi-automatic battle rifle, with bayonet.
Oh, and on the issue, I say wear what you want, honor your past, dress with a sense of self.
Frandy
Strings
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>I really don't care if callow youths feel stifled when told they can not wear their kilts in school. School's purpose is not to let every wiseacre and unemployable anti-authoritarian type act out every lame idea that pops into their head.<
Wow, Comrade... you're absolutely right, we should all be carbon copies of the Perfect Worker, to better serve our Kremiln masters...
Thanks, I'd rather any child of mine be a unique individual, with the self esteeme and confidance necessary to stand out from the herd, then to be One of Many marching to the drum of conformity...
Wow, Comrade... you're absolutely right, we should all be carbon copies of the Perfect Worker, to better serve our Kremiln masters...
Thanks, I'd rather any child of mine be a unique individual, with the self esteeme and confidance necessary to stand out from the herd, then to be One of Many marching to the drum of conformity...
JJpdxpinkpistols
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jfruser said:
Uhhh...sorry to break this to you, but most places of employ or schooling do no have a dress code that mentions kilts for men. My workplaces sees kilts every now and again. I work in a switch room where it is COLD so I don't think i would be wearing one, but my workplace has established "Whats good for the goose is good for the gander". Therefore, if gals can wear skirts, guys can wear kilts.
Ban skirts for both and you can be safe in not having to look at a boy's knees.
I see guys with kilts here in the NW all the time. In fact, its kinda standard at many gatherings of folks.
The odd thing is seeing a woman in a UK (UtiliKilt). It always seems to smack of transvestitism to me.
Oh and they don't ride up if you are wearing "regimental".
The first time i was asked by a chick what I wore under the kilt I replied back: "My boots".
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