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

[Camino Chrissy]

In post #97 above I posed a question.

The answer is (of course, what else): A sporran

I had to google that word. The cheap ones were vinyl, but I suppose the big hairy one is made from animal fur.

 

[Deleted member 39006]

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...)

 

[josephmcclain]

I have deleted a couple of posts from this light-hearted thread as they were in the verge of personal attack which are not allowed on this forum.

Thanks for that!!!

 

[josephmcclain]

As Stephen said (above) - Western Isles and where the first clan was formed by your ancestors about 1200 years ago. Many spellings (which is normal) - seems that your association is the Clan MacLaine of Lochbuie.

There was a partial migration to Ireland at one point - so your confused background!

Thanks for the info. Really appreciated!!

 

[Stivandrer]

@hamish - they are prudent - with their money

 

[Anamiri]

@hamish - they are prudent - with their money

As my dad says, deep pockets and short arms

 

[Deleted member 39006]

As my dad says, deep pockets and short arms

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 ).

 

[lizlane]

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.

 

[VNwalking]

Coming late to this very amusing party...but just to say:

trousers are not made for our anatomy!!

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?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

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?

Yeah, and are you qualfied if your people haven't worn one for 300+ years?

 

[J F Gregory]

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?

 

[Former member 49149]

All of the above is great. Only Scots should wear kilts, though.

Agree.

 

[Bradypus]

All of the above is great. Only Scots should wear kilts, though.

Agree.

I'd be very interested to watch from the sidelines while you debated that point with the Irish Guards

 

[NorthernLight]

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.

 

[Stivandrer]

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 !!

 

[Former member 49149]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Tamson's_Bairns
I wouldn't dare decide which is the appropriate tartan, there seem to be various...

 

[GinaMarie]

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?

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.