Wearing the kilt......

I married a Welsh lass whose family tartan is Williams so had one made. Any excuse I know. Turns out I bloody love wearing it. Mainly casual. Doc M boots and kilt socks and baggy shirt or jumper. Although I did go smart for our wedding. Not so good for cycling I suspect. Never tried!

I wear the Morris Welsh tartan. Apparently the way to tell Welsh from Scottish is that the Welsh have a more hairy sporran.

That's new to me! The hairy sporran story! Mine's quite trim.

Wow. That's a full on Tartan. Like it a lot.

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aye, the hairy sporran..

I haz a black on black tartan 5yd summer kilt for black tie dinners / burns night / rugby internationals

I love wearing the kilt, here with mckenzie kilt pin

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I have never gone full kilt, but I do have a pair of trews in MacNaughton Hunting, which go mightily well with a dinner jacket. I suppose I will bow to the inevitable and get a kilt at some stage.
If you are after any kind of kilt or accessories in London, I heartily recommend kilts4all, who are really friendly and a few minutes walk from King's Cross.
http://www.kilts4all.com/index.html

I got one this year in my family tartan (Gunn) and got given my great Grandfathers (McPherson-Rait), it fits perfectly which is a stroke of luck.

Apparently you wear your mothers tartan to get married in and your family one to other weddings/occasions.

Can't beat a Scottish wedding and ceilidh in a kilt... though the dancing makes you understand why a sporren is needed!

I wasn't sure if I passed the Cilt (Welsh version) test for Welshness by marrying a Welsh girl. I spoke to Scottish buddies who dismissed any notion of needing genetic qualification. Get one they said...and all the gear too...and wear it whenever. I did and I do. I've another on the way from the Welsh Tartan Centre in Swansea.

Is this a south wales thing? i've never seen a single kilt in north wales

dancing makes you understand why a sporren is needed!

Well I thought sporren is something to do to help with no undergarments situation when dancing and that so I Google it and got ikea chair. Hollywood myth?

I never saw a kilt in Cardiff but that was 1990s. Except when the scots were in town for international rugby.. could have been Taffs though and never saw kilts in the Valleys.. maybe it's a select few who wear them.

For Black Tie with black kilt here

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Latest made from drapes from windows at my last house. I call it the McCurtain.

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I grew up in rural North East Wales* and never heard of Welsh kilts or tartan. Is this some kind of barbarous hwntw nonsense?

*(Where nearly everyone, including myself, seems to be of fairly recent Irish descent)

I wear a kilt because I like wearing a kilt. My wife is Welsh and some of my mates are Scottish. It's really comfy and practical. Although not for cycling.

My parents are Irish, my dad has passed on now, but our surname comes from Yorkshire apparently....it's a traveller thing I think.
But if there was a tartan for my name, I'd wear it for sure!

I wore a kaftan to a party once, sans drawers......it was fucking liberating!

North East Wales where nearly everyone is a scouser.

Ftfy, cont.

For younger chaps, and I'm not one, the kilt is as good as a puppy for attracting the young ladies. Just be careful if you're crossing Cardiff city centre at 2 on a Sunday morning. Turns out there is such a thing as too much attention.

Great thread!

Ah've read the whole thing in a selection of dodgy Scottish and Welsh accents.

Well, that's true. I like to think they're only going back to their roots though!

Birkenhead is a very Welsh town.

Hosted the Eisteddfod in 1917 and 2017, the former being the "black chair" Eisteddfod, where the poet writing under the pseudonym Fleur-de-Lys couldn't stand up and accept his prize because he, Hedd Wyn, had died on the first day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres.

CSB, there's a movie.

That is indeed a CSB[rawdyn].

Birkenhead also famous for the biggest group of Grade 1 listed buildings in the country. And for having inspired Central Park. What a place.

Anyway, kilts

Been invited to a Black tie this weekend, not my usual Saturday.

is it legit to wear a kilt to these things in London? I have never been to a Ball.

Don't want to look a fucking idiot as its the misses work thing...

You're a braver man than me if you do-look forward to a night of mock-Scottish accents and jokes about what you're wearing underneath... I'd go for a tux or the dreaded tartan trouser. Kilts are for north of the border or weddings in my book...

I’ve worn my kilt to both my own works do’s and to my wife’s works parties, and had great reactions from people at both. Wear it confidence and pride and you’ll be fine.

This one. Just had it made from my old kitchen curtains. I kid you not. Fabric bought from Liberty in headier days is such good quality that when unpicked from linings and ruflette tape it joined to more than 5 metres making a seriously warm and unique kilt. And the tartan? Fuck knows. I call it the McCurtain.

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