Wearing a kilt as a garrison uniform?

[anton]

Hi, I cant seem to find the answer to my question. I've tried contacting the unit im joining (the Cameron Highlanders of ottawa), going through their site, and calling the recruiting centre, and doing a search here but no luck. So here's another try:

To anyone in the CHO, since it's a Highland unit, will i be forced to wear a kilt when I get in? Or are the kilts only for the musicians? No offense to anyone, but I just find kilts uhm...unappealing.

 

[FormerHorseGuard]

kilts are part of the highland dress for infrantry soldiers and band , depending on unit might be dress for all members, if you cannot wer a kilt i would not join a highland unit.

 

[Kirkhill]

......if you cannot wer a kilt i would not join a highland unit.

+1

 

[anton]

I guess I'm going into Cbt Eng then...

 

[couchcommander]

I would suggest researching the history of kilts before just jumping to that conclusion. There is nothing feminine about them.

 

[hugh19]

he probably has issues with his sexuality. LOLOLOLOL    I own three kilts. Including a cadpat one.  They are extremely comfortable, and for some reason women seem to love a man in a kilt.

 

[the 48th regulator]

I would suggest researching the history of kilts before just jumping to that conclusion. There is nothing feminine about them.

It's ok, we need savages that enjoy haggis and oatmeal.

dileas

tess

 

[ExSarge]

There is nothing feminine about them.

It’s not the Kilt that’s feminine; it’s the guys that want to wear the frilly knickers that you have to worry about!

Thank god there is an Air Force and Navy, so they have somewhere to congregate!  ;D

 

[Trooper Hale]

+ 1 to sledge! How narrow minded are you if you cant wear a kilt? Its in no way gay like you seem to worried about and yes, Chicks will fall over themselves to get with the bloke in a kilt. Wearing it shows that your not worried about what others think AND your proud of the men who've worn it before you.

I'm pretty sure the Scot's who went over the top wearing them in the first world war werent worried about them being "Unappealing" . You should be proud to get the chance to wear it.

 

[Springroll]

If kids in cadets have no issues wearing one, then why should you?

I fought to try be able to wear one in cadets, but never got the opportunity....I was stuck wearing a skilt(a skirt made in the regimental tartan) Parades were fun though....especially if the wind blew.

WOOHOO  ;D

 

[George Wallace]

Well Anton, you have two choices.  You can wear Bare Skin under your kilt, or you can wear Bear Skin on your head.  If you don't like the honour of becoming one of the "Ladies from Hell" then you can become a member of that other Regiment, the GGFG.  ;D

 

[The_Falcon]

Hi, I cant seem to find the answer to my question. I've tried contacting the unit im joining (the Cameron Highlanders of ottawa), going through their site, and calling the recruiting centre, and doing a search here but no luck. So here's another try:

To anyone in the CHO, since it's a Highland unit, will i be forced to wear a kilt when I get in? Or are the kilts only for the musicians? No offense to anyone, but I just find kilts uhm...unappealing.

I guess I'm going into Cbt Eng then...

Get over yourself.  If you are basing your decision of which trade/regiment you are joining based on what they wear you should go find something else to do.  Consider your statement, you find kilts unappealing?  Why? A couple of thousand of men before you, have been proud and honoured to wear a kilt in battle for the last 300-400 years or so. It made them no less manly, in fact the Germans in WW1 referred to men in highland/Scottish units from Canada and Britain as "The Ladies from Hell", due in no small part to their ferocity on the battle field.  You spit on the graves of those men who died in battle wearing kilts, with your juvenile apprehension.

 

[Trinity]

Well Anton, you have two choices.  You can wear Bare Skin under your kilt, or you can wear Bear Skin on your head.  If you don't like the honour of becoming one of the "Ladies from Hell" then you can become a member of that other Regiment, the GGFG.  ;D

'
well done George


Ok buddy..  I've been wearing a kilt for almost my entire CF career.
Best time of my life.  If you are afraid of being gay?? I get MORE women
because of wearing the kilt.

Me thinks.. you need to grow a pair.. (or maybe that is your problem!  hence you don't want a kilt!)

You spit on the graves of those men who died in battle wearing kilts, with your juvenile apprehension.

Um.. no I don't think he does spit on the graves actually...  Nice enthusiasm.. but a little over dramatic?
Oh wait.. we wear kilts.. that makes you feminine so I can call you a Drama Queen!


Best line every used by a Commanding officer

LCol Cameron  48th Highlanders on the 48th doing a parade for the Queen in 1997 (same day as gay pride)

LCol - Today.. we will go out and parade for the Queen, dressed like queens, being watched by the queens.

 

[The_Falcon]

Um.. no I don't think he does spit on the graves actually...  Nice enthusiasm.. but a little over dramatic?
Oh wait.. we wear kilts.. that makes you feminine so I can call you a Drama Queen!

Possibly a bit over enthusiastic (I was working out and listening to angry music Rammstein, Pantera, etc), but we both know I am a special case, right Padre

 

[Michael Dorosh]

As far as "garrison dress" goes, the kilt is worn maybe three times a year at most in Highland regiments - never for work, always for dress parades. Rememberance Day and one or two regimental parades commemorating significant battles ie St. Julien's Day, Buron Day, Walcheren Causeway, D-Day, etc. each regiment has one or two they commemorate each year.  Funerals and weddings my also call for wear of the kilt, but other than that, they are left in the closet. 

When travelling and ordered to travel in uniform, its possible DEU will be the dress of the day - wearing a kilt on a plane sucks completely but otherwise, CADPAT is what any reservist will spend the majority of their life in, unless they get a callout (after they finish their first year or two of training) to something like a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre where DEU is worn as dress of the day.

In short - much ado about nothing.

Incidentally, the kilt has not been battle clothing since it was banned as "unmilitary' in 1939, though some stalwarts of the 51st Highland Division went into action in 1940 in France wearing the kilt due to shortages of Battle Dress. The original plan to issue "Drawers, Highland, Anti-Gas" was seen as an unworkable solution to enhancing the piss poor poison gas resistance of the kilt and bare legs of a Highlander.

As for the "CADPAT kilt", I'd be interested in seeing that.  I know some firms sell "action kilts" or whatever online, of denim with cargo pockets, but if it isn't wool and pleated in the back, sorry fellows, you're wearing a skirt, not a kilt.

 

[armyvern]

I can confirm...from the female point of view of course...

that Trinity and Tess are SMOKIN' HOT when in their manly kilts.  :cheers:

Dileas
Vern

 

[The_Falcon]

You aren't a fan of the utilikilt (www.utilikilt.com), Michael?  Johnathan Davis (Lead singer of Korn) sports a "sport" kilt and sometimes a real kilt on stage.  But he is a rockstar.

 

[Kat Stevens]

Be sure to tell the Engineer recruiter exactly why you want to be a Sapper instead of a Highlander. I'm sure he'll bend over backwards to expedite your file (13), I know I would.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

You aren't a fan of the utilikilt (www.utilikilt.com), Michael?  Johnathan Davis (Lead singer of Korn) sports a "sport" kilt and sometimes a real kilt on stage.  But he is a rockstar.

Personal opinion is that they look ridiculous, but to each his own. I'm also not a fan of idiots arriving at Highland Games wearing real kilts, with t-shirts and sandals, no belt, no hose, no hat, possibly no sporran. Wear it properly or take it off...IMO. **shrug** I'm becoming in the minority on that, too.

 

[Kat Stevens]

You mean like this?  ;D