Are Kilts Becoming More Popular?
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2019
- Are kilts cool?
Are kilts just for Scots or can anyone wear them?
Why do men like to wear kilts?
Have kilts become more popular since the movie Braveheart?
Do more Americans wear kilts than Scottish men?
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Kilts are definitely becoming more popular with me. I just got my ninth one during my trip to Scotland. It's purple!
I wear utilikilts every day all year. Nobody bat's an eye these days. But 15 years ago man I would get some looks. I even got the utility kilt tattooed on my ankle so my kilt would look better in flip flops. Kilts just make sense for guys. Keeps you warm in the winter and cool in the summer all why being unique and stylish. Love your channel friend.
I wanted a kilt in 2011, not sure hwy, but I've always been an outlier, just not so much with fashion. I was astonished at the price, so I went online and found a DIY sewing how-to and made my own. After 20 hours of measuring, cutting, sewing and riveting I finally realized why they cost what they do! I have now bought several different kinds/styles of kilts and I like them all for different reasons.
The more people see other people wearing them the more popular they will become, just natural I guess. They really are very utilitarian and comfy.
I began wearing a kilt back in 2010 and now (2022) I wear a kilt 7 days a week except for the coldest days of winter here in New England. My mother is from Clan Lamont.
Im new to kilt wearing. I love u guys. Great information. Sadly last Saturday my home burned down and i lost all my kilts. Hope when I get on my feet i can get one of ur kilts.
Best wishes on getting back on your feet . Losing irreplaceable personal items has to be the worst part of having a fire .
My son and I enjoy wearing our kilts as we do get a lot of attention about them we always answer their questions about the kilts with respect to them and as to why we are wearing them
Great to see kilts becoming more popular, in North America at least.
The kilt is still rarely seen in lowland Scotland except for weddings and other formal events.
Even in the highlands few men wear the kilt as everyday wear.
Do you not think there is a need to go back to our roots (in general as human kind?).
Lederhosen are cool too. You can see very good looking men in Bavaria in lederhosen. Technically I should be wearing lederhosen rather than kilts, but somehow Scotland stuck more with me than Germany, even though I have German blood (I lived in both).
Well, I'm from the south of Germany...so TECHNICALLY I could also wear tartan pants like my celtic ancestors.
Same
Love your videos! Kilts are great. They should be worn more often.
You are correct. It's good to break the norm because people have become so lazy and casual about their appearance (and their weight!). Kilts can be at the heart of this counterculture as is the resurgence of tweeds already firmly established, creating an impeccable daywear appearance with fine cloth and workmanship from our tailors and kilt makers leading the way!
You need to open a store in Tucson, Arizona, we need you here!!!
I love a man in a kilt. My husband wore one often to both Highland games and Renaissance Festivalsas well as other events. He started wearing them in the 1960s in Canada as part of regimental dress. My great grandfather was one of the founders of the Highland Games in Alabama. Kiltwearing and tartan wearing is in my genes.
My own taking up a pro-active interest in kiltwear revealed one thing to me, and that's just how much more thriving kiltwear is in North America than I could've imagined.
My dirty little secret - my sporrans are American. People are surprisingly shocked to learn that I got my sporrans from America, not Scotland, as if it's somehow unpatriotic.
But _nobody_ was doing what Scott @ Artificer Custom Sporrans was doing. For all to brief a period, he cast the most brilliant modern and reproduction MOD brass cantles, and I was lucky enough to buy one - it's already developing a nice patina, a real heirloom piece. Then after struggling with RSI, he packed the whole business in.
As a devoted and habitual kilt wearer, and someone who really enjoys meeting new people, I can attest to the fact that there is probably no better way to do this, other than a puppy or a newborn child. This is especially true among the ladies of all ages and ethnic persuasions. The ladies do love a man in a kilt!
I love wearing my kilts. I should think about purchasing my next kilt from you. 👍🏼
I am new to wearing kilts and I can say I fell in love with it. I am in a Filipino and we do have in our ethnic groups versions of the kilt by another name. Thank you for your channel and I am learning a lot! More power!
I think it's all of these factors and then some. I'd have donned a kilt years ago, if I'd known it was as affordable as it is (assuming you're not wearing purely 8 yard wool and open to PV). For me, pants have gone the way of the dinosaur in 2019 - and what I've experienced thus far (given we're a month and a halfish in) I'm not sure I'll wear pants again (unless for some reason I really need to go up a ladder - in which case I'll probably advise the people below to avert their eyes). Your videos are awesome, keep them up!
Through DNA I found I was Scottish and not just Irish. So I want to pronounce that heritage, But mostly I have MS. If you don't know some one with MS, People with MS are very heat intolerant. When it gets to 80 degrees or better, I get a type of vertigo and have to head for a cooler spot. Wearing a Kilt keeps me cooler and more heat tolerant.
Blundering Tusk I mean some Irish wore kilts too so it doesn’t matter all that much
@@rabbitspliff I know I'm a year past your comment, but it's very insightful. My daughter tuned me into the possibility that my surname (as well as my mother's maiden name) has Scottish roots. Based on what I can find, it's rooted in Northumberland about 13 miles from the current Scottish border, whereas my mother's maiden name of Black is strongly rooted in Celtic origins. I've thought of a DNA test to determine more, but a good friend and I were discussing that it's only going to compare me to DNA collected since the science started, and the universe would consist of others who consented. Meaning, accuracy as you've identified goes only so far. Sadly, my family never seemed concerned with genealogy so here I am without much family record. One Clan that I will proudly claim...The U.S. Army, so eventually that may be my tartan.
green light! lol... i'm rocking one in the next video. right on fellas!
My god, I'm not sure how to dress. Being Scottish, Irish and german.
Leaves me with a strange mix of stile. But I do love to hear the pipes playing as much as I love Octoberfest.
The establishment of the Scottish Register of Tartans was also a contributing factor.
I've been put in a kilt since I was a toddler, so the kilt has been a fixture all my life. I was too young at the time to notice the Braveheart effect. I think it's common, when you take up an interest and learn more about it, you become switched onto it and notice it more and that can give the impression that it has become more popular since you got interested in it than before. Technically it did become more popular by one person when you took up interest in it, that's beside the point. I'm sure this phenomenon has happened with other interests I've taken up, but strikingly not with kiltwear.
In Scotland, it's still seen as dress for special occasions, and even then, many such special occasions - eg weddings - have had to me a lacklustre turnout of kilts, on top of which many people approach kiltwear with complete apathy, taking what hire companies throw at them, and putting little thought into their outfits past some basic choice of tartan, and whether to go for an Argyle or PC.
Even at Highland weddings I could go down the scant line-up of kiltwearers and clock "those 3 guys took what the hire company threw at them. that guy's in his uncle's hand-me-downs. that guy's wearing an outfit he got fitted for 30 years ago when he was considerably more svelte".
So as far as Scotland goes, would I say kiltwear has gotten more popular than it was 15 years ago?
No.
As someone who finally jumped on the kilt wagon I find it kind of disappointing that there is so much apathy towards the kilt in Scotland . I was talking to someone at a Scottish store the other day ( who is Scottish ) and she said kilt wearing is on the rise among younger people in Scotland I would have to take her word for it . ( not disputing what you are saying either ) . I am going to back to Norway this summer to visit friends and my friends son is looking forward to wearing one of my kilts around Oslo for a day . I love to push the kilt culture because after six months I still can't get over how incredible they are to wear . Would love to hop over to Scotland while I was there but..... .
Do Americans wear kilts more than people in Scotland? If so, why?
If you hang out at a kilt store, you’ll see more kilts. If you hang out at a ren faire, you’ll see more kilts. If you run errands at a Walmart in Fort Worth, Texas, you’ll probably only see me in a kilt (Utilikilt).
As a society in general over the years, we’re becoming more accepting of alternate lifestyles, including alternative dress.
I’m actually getting a little disappointed when someone doesn’t ask about what I’m wearing if I’m Irish or Scottish. (No; I’m comfortable.)
"Do Americans wear kilts more people in Scotland?"
Probably not. There are about 1 or 2 million more people of Scottish descent in the USA, than there are people in Scotland. However, they're more diffusely spread out and intermixed with people of other heritage, and that social environment will have for much of the USA's history, dissuaded many from bucking the trousered trend and wearing kilts. The Scottish diaspora in the USA aren't all crowded into a single New Scotland state. Hell, even Nova Scotia isn't a Canadian "New Scotland" province in this regard.
The difference is in expectation. The Scottish diaspora descendents in the USA wear kilts more than one would've expected, given the multi-ethnic character of the USA would be expected to tend towards peoples assimilating with one another and dropping their cultural idiosyncracies in order to do so. Inversely, Scots in Scotland wear kilts less than one would expect, given it is Scotland, given it has that unbroken tie to its heritage, and given - in spite of many Scots' aspirations to progressivism - it is still largely monocultural.
I think one of the best explanations for this is that America's Scottish Diaspora more enthusiastically took up the kilt in the last few decades as a way to state and reaffirm their heritage. Scots, on the other hand, don't feel such a need to reaffirm their identity. Born in Scotland, living in Scotland, kilt or not they won't feel anything other than Scottish.
On the subject of being asked whether one's Scottish or Irish, I wore my kilt in Ireland before and the somewhat perplexed locals asked me the same. I evidently looked out of place in a kilt anyway, but beside that I confirmed their suspicions when they asked. Irish kiltwear, if and when employed, is usually focused on saffron & bottle green - whether it's the solid saffron kilt and a bottle green brian boru jacket, or a kilt in Rocky's own Irish Heritage tartan which incorporates both colours in its threadcount. Wearing a kilt in a Scottish tartan with its more varied palette of reds, blues and other colours is a dead giveaway to anyone more in the know.
Having said that, your utilikilt wouldn't clue people in so I can see why you'd be asked...
do you pair it with a cowboy hat and boots?
Well anecdotally as a Scot I would say definitely. Kilts here are very much formal wear, for weddings or Ceilidhs or any other formal event.
Much like in the US there are some people who wear them more often, but it's much like a tuxedo, you don't wear it regularly and most people would wonder if you are going to a wedding.
That's just my experience. Kilts are great, but it's rare to wear then without other formal wear, because ultimately they are modern garments, evolved from historical kilts of the past.
The one other time you see them is at rugby or football, especially when Scotland are playing, back in the day when Scotland could actually qualify for the World Cup or Euros (football/Soccer) you'd see a ton of guys in kilts with football tops on.
Blundering Tusk it’s sort of the “St Patrick’s Day” effect, St Patrick’s was a religious holiday until it was adopted by Irish-Americans as a celebration of their cultural connection to the old country. It’s a way of preserving that cultural link and celebrating a heritage.
I know I for one wear a great kilt when I’m out hiking or camping, it’s very practical and comfortable and it can double as a shelter, I plan to hike part of the Appalachian trail next summer and you can be sure I’ll be wearing my plaid.
Underwear when hiking? I see you’re a firefighter so probably pretty fit... but myself... I’d get chub rub from hell without the boxer briefs! 🤣
@DingoDave What ever works bud. If you aren't in the Royal Regiment of Scotland in the British Army and are regimental by regulation, you suit yourself.
Back in 2000, I dyed my hair green (Only went for green because it was the only colour dye available where I was living at the time. Back then, it was quite unusual, and random strangers would verbally abuse me at least 4-5 times a day! 20 years later, I've still got the green hair, but nowadays no one even notices, it's just become far more normal. I suspect that eventually it will be the same with a kilt.
Kilt wearing went up 100% last fall where I live.....me . I was discussing more people wearing kilts on the tassel drumming episode and while I would love to see it become more popular what I would hate to see is it become a " fashion craze " or the proliferation of really cheap looking kilts . I think ( and not wanting to sound like a snob ) that might diminish the reputation of kilts as unique and high quality fashion . USA Kilts DEFINATLY doesn't fall into that category ! I would love to hear feedback on anyone's thoughts on this . There is at least one company in the USA that do not make quality kilts and I cringe at ever wearing what to me is a cheap knock off . Or am I being a snob after all ?
Rick Moore wanting a high-quality garment rather than a cheap knockoff isn’t snobbery, it’s good sense. Some Chinese polyester kilt isn’t going to last anywhere near as long as good Scottish wool, so if you’re wearing it semi-regularly it’s cheaper in the long run
I don,t like the looks of the guy on the right earring an ugly blue tie..I HATE ties !
Rick, you're dead on the money. Quality costs more on the front end, but ammortisized over time, it is a much better investment.
As a Scotsman I've never understood the fascination that America had with Scotland but I like it and I'm happy to see people wearing the kilt over there. Especially if you can trace your lineage back to a specific clan it must be quite romantic I guess
David, it embodies the rugged individualist attitude we got from our Scottish emigrants so long ago. For me, at least. As an American to a Scot, thank you for sharing that trait with us.
I don't know if you guys even read these but I'd love to hear you revisit this
We do read the comments. :-)
I just re-watched the video. It's only 3 years old, so frankly, our answers today would probably be the same. :-)
Once again,kilts have run their popularity. Now you just have to have the stones to just embrace who you are. A proud Scotsman!
the local increase is due to me dressing up my daughters' boyfriends for civic functions - I appear to have many kilts of different sizes from when I was a bit lighter...
We Need a Kilt Store in New York City,
Hi Celtic men!
I am a poor man, my dear father was of Scottish blood, my dear mother was of Irish blood county clare... do you think I should have two kilts made? Of seven children, all but one felt scottish,
that was myself,,, I have always felt more Irish , it maybe my lack of feelin no kinship with the English at all, so perhaps I should wear an Irish kilt. What do you fine Celtic men think?
I live in Bavaria and lederhosen are worn often, more so outside of Munich , but comes September, then all bavaria is a flood with lederhosen and with ladies wear kindles , a bavarian dress for women.
regards
Michael Carmichael
Start with one for your dad's side, then a county Clere for your moms side. Then, expand from there. God bless, Rob
Go to WalMart..you'll see ledderhosen!
Kilts are "punker" than lederhosen.
I hope so! I love them and think men look more masculine somehow.
The biggest. Anatomically a man wearing a skirt and a woman wearing pants makes more sense, and it was more comfortable because of it.
I want to stand out, just like everybody else.
Kilts no, Freedom aye!
I don't believe they're more popular. In American culture still has stigmas about kilts or "skirts" (🤢) because of society's view about men and women's dress. I still hear people in 2019 saying they wear skirts. 🤦♂️
More comments as a younger man then a middle age man. Go figure.
Historically men wore "skirt" type clothes. Romans, Egyptians, etc. Women never wore short clothing.
A Roman toga, aside from being one of the most impractical garments ever invented, was not short. However, I believe your view ancient clothing is generally correct; men were more inclined to wear short skirts and women virtually never wore them, although there are also plenty of examples of men wearing long robes and gowns. I believe there are only a few basic shapes and configurations that clothing can assume, and all of them are, at their core, unisex. They are made masculine or feminine by cut, construction fabric, and trim.
Ha Ha HA Ha!!!
What?
Utilikilts just seem a product of goth/punk fashion and Yank cheapness, in my humble opinion.
Not my thing either.