Kilts For Men

You see them when watching the warriors of Braveheart racing through the glen or possibly swirling around men’s waists in TV images from the yearly Highland Games. They’re bright with tartan, crowned with sporran and have a dirk hanging boldly to the side. They’re kilts of course, and admittedly have a confident style. But do these garments have any place in the modern world? Ask any Scotsman, and you’ll get the answer is a resounding ‘aye’. So what role does this wrap around garment of tartan have in today’s era of designer style?

Firstly in today’s global village, more and more people get the need to connect with their roots and acquire their identity. Scotsmen are scattered out across the world both as emigrants and expatriates. And wherever they are, limitless feel the need to get their roots and reclaim their identity.

This sense of identity can involve far greater than only being Scottish, for the tartan of the kilt is also linked with Scottish clans or families. In addition, tartans can furthermore represent districts, counties, countries, corporations, States and Provinces, or schools and universities. So the wearing of a tartan can create this sense of belonging to a long and noble practice..

From this practice comes a notion of pride in being Scottish and the inheritor of an special record and culture. In fact, the kilt played a main role in the development of the forging of the identity of Scotland as a nation. Originally the garb of the Highland minority, Highland wear became the symbol of Scottish independence after the Jacobite rebellions against the prohibition of the wearing of Highland garb in 1746. Where formerly it was just the highland Scots who sported the kilt, the Lowland Scots showed their rebellion against the English by donning the kilt and sporran.

There’s also the simple truth that kilts only look so first-rate. If you need any proof, just take a look at Sir Sean Connery in full Highland attire to see how distinguished the kilt wearer is. It was, another knight, Sir Colin Campbell, Brigadier-Customary of the Queen’s 93rd ‘Sutherland’ Highlanders, who summed up the design and reputation of the kilt so perfectly in the evocative phrase, “A guy in a kilt is a guy and a half.”

So if you’re prepared to obtain your Scottish roots, take the plunge and don the kilt. You’ll not only reconnect with your roots but you’ll look somewhat distinguished in the method.