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Old 03-16-2008, 05:50 PM
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I Have Some Scottsmen Swing'n Around In My Family Tree[momma's People Are Kinabrew] So Maybe That's Why Kilts Look So Comfortable To Me !
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I've always been interested in them but haven't really been in the right place / time to go for it. The only part of my heritage I really know about is from my Mom's side, German / Swedish. My dad's side was adopted in about 3 generations back so no one knows for sure. I may not be blood Scottish but the freedom sounds very fine!
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may I bring to your attention this photo given to me by the man who runs our local museum- of the Smiddy where I now live/work- its from around the 1920's give or take a decade. You can just make out the man wearing a kilt to rasp the horse's hooves...



I think its staged though, as the other lads in the photo are wearing leather aprons, covered in soot, and wearing dark colours, I am not sure in that day they would wear a white shirt to work!!!!
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White Shirt: My Great Grandfather circa 1910 striking for his apprentice; Staged ???
It was his camera.

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Do you like them, do you or would you wear one?
well how else are you going to get free drinks on skirt night?
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A kilted farrier???!!!

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I'm a true american mongrel so I have some scots in with the irish, german, cherokee, french...but the kilt is too recent for me; done a lot of forging in a tunic though. I've also worn lederhosen to Quad-State when the weather is appropraite on Fridays...
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Habu, that's not a dirk it's a sien dhu. A dirk is a sword! You must have heard:
"There was a scots highlander
At the battle of Waterloo.
The wind blew up his Philabeg
And showed his skien dhu."
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Phil, a Dirk is a long dagger. Size wise, it (very roughly) goes:

Sgian Dubh (in modern dress worn in the stocking top, apparently at the behest of Queen Victoria)
Dirk
Basket hilt sword
hand & half sword
2 hand sword
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As Red Skelton said in one of his bits,
"I used the chase anything in a skirt, until I ran into that Scottsman...."
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