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djm wrote:I don't think the camo stuff is such a mystery. It has been all the rage amongst kids for several years with all the movies coming out about SEALS and Rangers, etc. Even stylishly cut (read super-baggy) stuff for kids is available in camo. Its the usual thing of trying to be cool by associating with the image of really big, strong guys who do tough, manly things.

Works for adults, too. :wink: :D

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I wear camo when I'm bowhunting. Not the orange kind, but the real stuff. Interestingly, I also have a more-or-less hodden grey wool sweater which is one of the most versitile pieces of camo I own--blends in with pretty near any terrain--including semi-formal dinners! Smells like a dead animal when it gets wet, though.

Anyway, the point of all this camo is to not be seen. I usually change out of it when I return to town. It still strikes me as a bit crazy, walking around town wearing Realtree brown. But then, I'm not one to take my technical frame pack to the grocery store, either. :)

I'd love to try bowhunting in a kilt...but my clan Gunn great plaid is too bulky and too expensive to risk getting blood and dirt on. A small kilt would be GREAT for stalking, though.

There used to be a website where one could design ones own tartan pattern, and the company would weave the fabric and make a kilt from it. I once designed a perfect Wyoming hunting kilt--grey-brown background, large spruce green stripes, fine black and dark red stripes. It would blend in about anywhere, and looked quite dashing, if I may say so. But I couldn't afford to buy it. :cry:

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You know, there are some pretty strange looking kilts or kilt ensembles out there. Camo is starting to sound better all the time.

Is this the Paul Bunyan kilt? The Minnesota? The Lumberjack?
I'm sure this man is very nice, but if you were walking in the woods and suddenly came across him wouldn't you feel sort of........scared?
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What do we call this? The Tiki Kilt?
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Nano wrote:A tool kilt just seems paler by comparison.
But what about those rivets? OOOooooooo! :o

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I have three kilts, each of which is in some variation of my clan colours. I'm sure the utilikilt is quite nice, but I've no need for one.

I am also baffled by all the civilian kids I see running around in camo. Speaking for myself, I'm sick of camo and eagerly await the day when I will never have to wear it again.
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WyoBadger wrote:There used to be a website where one could design ones own tartan pattern, and the company would weave the fabric and make a kilt from it.
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Cynth wrote:.... The Lumberjack?
I'm sure this man is very nice, but if you were walking in the woods and suddenly came across him wouldn't you feel sort of........scared?
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Looking for Camo bagpipes to go with that kilt?????????????

http://www.pipefetish.com/
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Word has it that during the 1950s and 1960s, Edinburgh Corporation Transport would not allow a kilt-wearing gentleman upstairs on their trams, in fear of frightening the downstairs passengers.

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Well, this is frightening from any angle. On the other hand, I wouldn't style him a gentleman in any case. And if he's a Scot - which I majorly doubt - he should have his license revoked.
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Not only can you buy contemporary kilts these days but you can get sporrans as well. My brother is getting one custom made for his wedding so he's a little different from the rest of us who will be in more traditional garb:

http://www.sporran-nation.co.uk/
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"so...do scottish crossdressers wear pants?"

--a friend of mine, seeing me in a kilt for the first time
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chrisoff wrote:Not only can you buy contemporary kilts these days but you can get sporrans as well. My brother is getting one custom made for his wedding so he's a little different from the rest of us who will be in more traditional garb:

http://www.sporran-nation.co.uk/
I've always wanted a sporran with a jolly roger on it...
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Is the sporran that hairy/leather/tassled thing that hangs between a Scotsman's legs?

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Anstapa wrote:Is the sporran that hairy/leather/tassled thing that hangs between a Scotsman's legs?

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Oh! I forgot that I had another question, what is that little thing a Scotsman sticks into his socks below his kilt? I think his name is Dirk???

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