Wearing a kilt as a garrison uniform?

[reccecrewman]

Well, the RCD is a far cry from being a Scottish Regiment, but I've always found that the highland Regiments look right sharp when they're dressed to the nines in their best bib & tucker.  It all boils down to personal opinion as MD stated, but to choose a Unit based on what they wear?  :

Regards

 

[andpro]

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

hhhhhhhmmmmmmmm... I was going to give a rebutle to that comment, but thought better of it as I am part of a minority here.
On the kilt issue I agree with the majority of the people here you should be proud of the kilt ... But just try not to ejoy it too much. 

 

[Yrys]

From sledge :

and for some reason women seem to love a man in a kilt

What do you mean, for ''some reasons'' ? There tons of reasons to love
more a man in kilt, the first being our collective duty to conduct a ''kilt check''
to be sure that it is wear properly  .

Trinity and Tess in KILT? (swooning over) I need to see a picture  ;D !

(And I disagree with andpro, Enjoy it very much, PLEASE, shaking head )

 

[big bad john]

What you wear has nothing to do with your sexual orientation!  Just look at the lads from 2Para's Mortar Platoon, straight as the day is long, and they all tend to wearing dresses when they've had a few.  But that's tradition.  But I digress, I have been a Marimes Officer for a few years and I wear a kilt as an Irishman proudly!  It takes a real man to wear a kilt it has been said.

Next thing you'll probably ask is if you'll be "forced" to drink beer in the mess.  Please, where do they come from...LOL

 

[Blunt Object]

Let the Kilt speak for it self. The people that do stop you when you're wearing it will only do so to pay you a compliment and going to the "Market" in Ottawa in a kilt is always fun.

 

[andpro]

going to the "Market" in Ottawa in a kilt is always fun.

 
I have never seen that done, but I could just imagine how that would turn out.

 

[FormerHorseGuard]

when I was with the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish on the final parade, there were a lot of tears and a lot of second thought about making the change from kilts to pants, ( any man can wear pants , but it takes a real man to wear a kilt) I was thinking it does not take much to take the kilt off the man, but it takes a lot to take the kilt out of the man.  I hated wearing the normal DEU when I remustered to FIN from R031, it took me years to get my balmoral and glen, special premission from the CO and RSm to wear it on callout. Then when the unit was made arty again I put on my green beret again and I was no longer from a highlander unit. I never felt apart of a unit again till i joined the GGHG and got the black beret. The kilt and all the trimmings set the tone of the unit and made it something to be proud of.

If you cannot wear a kilt, enjoy scotch, haggis, the mighty pipes, more then likely  you will do just fine being ENG if they  will have you when they hear your reasoning for wanting to be one.  :
A guy in a kilt gets more women in one day then a guy in pants. they always want to know what is under the kilt.  some even want to personally check.

 

[Parked4everuser]

Let the Kilt speak for it self. The people that do stop you when you're wearing it will only do so to pay you a compliment and going to the "Market" in Ottawa in a kilt is always fun.

Hahaha, I have never seen anyone in the market wearing a kilt, but that'd give me a good chuckle and a few minutes of entertainment!
...Maybe I don't get to the market often enough.

 

[Kirkhill]

they always want to know what is under the kilt.  some even want to personally check.

Flashback to ancient history: loud chorus of girlish screams and giggles from the graduating class of nurses next door at the Palliser after "ease springs" on St. Julien's day dinner and all the junior ranks mysteriously disappeared.

No one thought to investigate the matter as the giggles died down.

 

[dglad]

Speaking as someone who's worn a kilt as part of my dress uniform for almost all of my military career, I have no qualms saying to the original poster that you should look at joining the Camerons BECAUSE they wear the kilt.  It's a fine piece of military dressed, steeped in the undeniably proud military heritage of the Scots.  Someone suggested that kilted Regiments tend to wear the kilt about 3 times per year; actually, it's generally more than that--Remembrance Day, Robbie Burns Day, Regimental Birthday, Soldier's Christmas Dinner, other Regimental Days, military funerals, Freedom of the City parades, and similar events can all add up to wearing the kilt almost monthly in some years.  Granted, there is a tendency to do more of this sort of thing in CADPAT in recent years (such as Freedom of the City), and I'm sure some units spend more time in the kilt than others, but a member of a Scottish (or Irish, for our Sudbury, Ontario brethren) should expect to wear the kilt with some frequency.

And, yes, as has been pointed out, the ladies tend to be more than a little intrigued by a man in a kilt.

But it isn't, as far as I know, worn ROUTINELY by any Regiments.  The "Ladies from Hell" notwithstanding, it's not a very practical form of dress for training or ops.  Even ignoring chemical agents, I don't think I'd be all that fond of conducting a section attack across the dry grass, cactus and ant-hills of your typical training area in my kilt.  And as for things like mountaineering and rappelling...well, I have rappelled in a kilt (once), but that's a story best left untold.

 

[Danjanou]

Vern what’s this about Tess and the Padre being smoking? I’ll have you know I look better in my Kilt then they ever will.  8)

I was privileged to wear a kilt for about half of my service, and was married wearing my own family Kilt.

As to the original poster,  Laddie you are making the awful big assumption that you’re good enough to serve in a Highlander Regiment in the first place. What makes you think we want you?

 

[Kat Stevens]

Pretty much where I was going, Dan, you just took a shortcut. 

 

[Shamrock]

A lot of this seems to be based on the assumption that the original poster is opposed to wearing a kilt for sexual orientation reasons.  Allow me to jump on that bandwagon.

If you don't have what it takes to join a kilt-wearing regiment, then you sure don't have what it takes to be an engineer.  Infanteers are some of the hardest, toughest, bravest mofo's you'll ever meet... but engineers?  They have balls that clank.

If you're allergic to wool, then maybe you have an excuse for not wanting to wear a kilt.  I've never looked in to it, but you can probably get a slip or something sewn in to your kilt, just be careful of silk rubbing around the neter-regions.

 

[Michael OLeary]

A lot of this seems to be based on the assumption that the original poster is opposed to wearing a kilt for sexual orientation reasons.  Allow me to jump on that bandwagon.

If you don't have what it takes to join a kilt-wearing regiment, then you sure don't have what it takes to be an engineer.  Infanteers are some of the hardest, toughest, bravest mofo's you'll ever meet... but engineers?  They have balls that clank.

If you're allergic to wool, then maybe you have an excuse for not wanting to wear a kilt.  I've never looked in to it, but you can probably get a slip or something sewn in to your kilt, just be careful of silk rubbing around the neter-regions.

I suppose this didn't come across like a reference to allergic reactions:

No offense to anyone, but I just find kilts uhm...unappealing.

Regradless, I suppose anton has seen enough responses to get a feeling for how kilts are viewed within the CF.  It will, perhaps, not be his only preconception to be challenged during his career.