Beyond the Tartan

With the weather turning nice in the Truckee Meadows I am more inclined to wear a kilt out and about these days. I have sticking to a specific tartan because I am more American than anything else, which does tend to screw up the argument for wearing a kilt in the first place.

The last 3-weeks I have gone to church on Wednesday nights while girded in my kilt. I wanted to find out if it really does matter to folks what one wears to church or not.

It does —  because as I have realized Canadians get more fellowship than I do, based on the fact that most people who do not know me, think I’m from north of the border. Fortunately, I don’t go to church jus’ for fellowship but for the teaching.

Besides, it take courage to be different and I want to be courageous since I’m already different. Finally, I have compile a short list of facts about the kilt:

• The kilt may have originated in France…damned those Frogs!
• The Scottish kilt never looked anything like the one in ‘Braveheart’.
• The Irish didn’t start wearing kilts until around the mid-eighteenth century.
• It doesn’t matter what one wears or doesn’t wear under the kilt.
• Family tartans came about because of the Anglican Church.
• At one point the wearing of the kilt was outlawed in the United Kingdom.

And I know what to say when some guy shouts, “Nice skirt!”

I jus’ smile and holler back, “Thanks,” then curtsy.