Posted on 12/22/2005 12:01:01 PM PST by bobd400
Anyone else have issue with this? Banning a kilt? http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/12/22/student.kilt.ap/index.html
A petition in support of the student.. http://www.petitiononline.com/kilt05/
> He bought a kilt off the Internet to wear to his school's formal "Silver Arrow" dance in November.
Mistake #1.
> Warmack said he showed it to a vice principal before the dance, who joked he'd better wear something underneath it, and Warmack assured him he would.
Mistake #2.
> Warmack's parents, Terry and Paula, helped him piece together the rest of his outfit, a white shirt and black tie with white socks and black boots.
Mistake #3.
> "We knew it wasn't the formal regalia," his father said. "We wanted it to be acceptable for the occasion."
Mistake #4.
Lesson: Son, if you are going to wear the kilt, do it properly or not at all. And there is no mention of the Sporrin or the Sgean Dubh in your "regalia".
Might as well be wearing a skirt.
Ergo, do not disgrace the Kilt by wearing it as a fashion statement. It isn't Respectful. Scots may take offense.
"Diehard the Hunter"
Warmack? I take it his Scottish heritage is on the mother's side.
He did look like a clown! It was disrespectful to YOUR heritage (and to mine!).
Panties, eh? Just be glad your in TX toughguy.
Any of you actually READING the article? He wasn't shunned because he looked sloppy, or wasn't in "proper highland attire". He was shunned because the principal didn't want anyone who looked "like a clown". If I have to choose between someone looking "messy" in a kilt vs. someone who thinks the kilt makes you look like a clown, I'll take the latter. And I've got news for you, when participating in the Highland games, we looked a lot sloppier than that. Go chastize one of the heavies for not looking appropriate.
I would ask the ACLU to help fight this as culturally insensitive.
Reminds me of the song I've heard with the last line: "My friend I don't know where you've been but I see you've won first prize"!!!!!!
Looks like the Royal Stuart plaid, which can be worn by any Scotsman who does not have a clan plaid. As I heard it. Also, the last time the kilt was banned was after the Brits decimated the Scots at Culloden in the early 1740s. I think it lasted until Queen Victoria fell in love with Scotland and things Scottish.
Anyone with better info can feel free to correct me.
I often tell my wife that I wish I were Scottish so I could dress like that. She tells me I should do it anyway if I like it so much but I just laugh and tell her it wouldn't be right.
> And I've got news for you, when participating in the Highland games, we looked a lot sloppier than that. Go chastize one of the heavies for not looking appropriate.
The kilt I'd wear for tossing the Caber would not be the same one I'd wear to a formal event. (I'm heavy and squat, 265 lbs).
Same way I wouldn't wear gym shorts and a tee-shirt to a prom, and for the same reason: it's inappropriate and disrespectful.
This kid wasn't only looking sloppy, his get-up would have made him look like a clown.
Boy, do I have a photo I could post, but I haven't been banned in six years, and I don't want to start now.
Women, especially good looking women, love men in kilts, see post 33. That would be me with Bo and my old team sergeant.
"Scots may take offense"
According to the article, he has received offers from several Scottish clans to help him dress appropriately.
That's just the beginning of it.
In 1993, a student in Fayette County, Georgia, was not allowed to enter his prom at McIntosh High School because he showed up in a kilt and refused to change clothes.
When I was in high school, there was a bit of rebellion because boys were required to wear pants that reached their ankles, without any holes or tears (this was the '80s, when ripped jeans were popular). Girls, on the other hand, were allowed to wear skirts of any decent length.
This was in Atlanta, school began in August, and the air conditioning was feeble on its best day. It was 90+ in the classrooms many days, and some of us took exception to rules that allowed the girls but not the boys to wear comfortable attire. Some of the boys more daring than I wore skirts to school to protest and test the policy.
I don't think any of the protesters had enough wit to wear a kilt instead of a skirt, which would have given them a stronger case that it's traditional male attire.
"And if a national dress (not American) is allowed, what would stop a person of South American Indian from wearing nothing but died red hair?"
Small size?
"Nice try. Public indecency laws prevent wearing just dyed hair. Is there something indecent about a kilt???"
If I'm wearing it there would be!!!
Gee Creedence, you sure don't seem like you are very much fun.
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