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Kilted in Aberdeen

Published on 16 July 2016

In a blog named Kilted Guy, it wouldn’t be right to skip the subject of being kilted in Aberdeen.

Usually I change into my kilt once I check into my hotel or hostel, but since we had the convenience of a private cabin in the Caledonian Sleeper, I could just put on my kilt in the morning, before even touching Aberdonian soil.

As usual in Scotland, people never seem to be fazed by the sight of a kilt — unlike in Brussels — and wearing my MacLaren kilt, I never received any remarks about it. Well, the lady at the left luggage facilities at the train station inquired about it, but she seemed to be seizing any opportunity to chat about anything…

During our stay in Aberdeen, we noticed two other kilties. The first one, a guy in his twenties, was wearing his kilt very casual. Read: halfway down his calves, way too low to my taste…
The other one was wearing a beautiful kilt, obviously made by 21st Century Kilts, easily identified by the typical kilt pin. He was wearing it exactly as you see it worn in the ads of the kilt maker, complete with high boots and scrunched down hoses. Now I look at their photos again, it might very well have been the white-bearded guy featuring in a couple of them!

For the Punk AGM I decided to wear my black ‘beer kilt’, complete with BrewDog-bottle-opener-converted-to-kilt-pin. Only minutes after leaving the hotel, someone noticed my BrewDog outfit, and wanted to take a photo of me.
At the AGM, someone else even made close-up shots of my kilt pin!
Then, while I was on my own for a couple of minutes, a Scottish lady — who obviously had a few beers too many already — came up to me to ask me why I was wearing “a schoolgirl’s skirt”! At first I thought it was because my black kilt is not the same high quality and yardage as my MacLaren kilt, and her Scottish eye spotted it was probably made in Pakistan. But no, it was merely because it was black! Apparently, in her mind, only a tartan kilt is a kilt.

I guess even some people in Scotland still have to get accustomed to ‘modern’ kilts…

BrewDog Kilt Pin

Published on 18 December 2014

I finally have a BrewDog kilt pin! 🙂
Well, it’s not quite like I imagined it initially (see below), but until BrewDog starts selling kilt pins, this will have to do.

Want to make your own? You only need a BrewDog bottle opener, some pins/butterfly clutches and superglue! 🙂

Na Fir Bolg

Published on 3 July 2014
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In a couple of hours I’ll be off to Na Fir Bolg, a nice folk, rock and cabaret music festival in Vorselaar, in the province of Antwerp.
One of the groups performing is The Black Tartan Clan. When I went to one of their concerts a couple of months ago, almost everybody was kilted—including me, of course—so it made sense I would pack my black kilt for this weekend.
Since folkies usually are quite kilt friendly anyway, I decided to wear a kilt the rest of the weekend as well.

On top of the selection of artists, one of the nice things about this festival is the fact they still serve beer in real glasses. So I spent some time to stretch my leather drink / bottle holder to fit a full-size Guinness pint glass! It might come in handy… 😉

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