Kilt at Edinburgh Tattoo

[AlCapone13]

As a non-Scottish person, can I wear a kilt at the Edinburgh tattoo or is that disrespectful?

You do know kilts are made of 8 yards of WOOL, and ar3 generally worn with WOOL socks and boots (when casual)? The last thing a kilt is, is cold!

Don't be daft - of course it's cold. Wool does not stop wind blowing up your kilt when you're sat up high on the esplanade! There's a reason most people don't tend to wear kilt or skirts to the Tattoo.

Judging by the number of kilt shops as you wander up the Royal Mile, there must be more tourists buying them than actual Scottish people (also scarfs, Harry potter items, whisky and fridge markets.)

Yep - though more poly than wool! The tartan tat shops are everywhere, but there's obviously a market for them.

I'm a Scott. Wear a kilt, why would this offend me? Love seeing the kilt.

Swiss are entitled to wear the MacAlpine tartan.

Haha. Only a very strange person would object to anything you wear.

There are some tartans you can only wear if you're from that clan and others that are universal. But nobody would really know either way to look at you anyway. It should fit well and should be pure wool.

*SuperLoudPoppingAction *

could you name those Clans please? 😁

Check the tartan register. According to people who sell tartan cloth, attitudes have changed recently but I don't think everyone got the memo about that.

It’s fine nobody will care. Especially at that time of year you will see folk dressed up as all sorts. A Swiss person in a kilt honestly isn’t going to be an issue.

Better run it past the Tartan Mafia and the Tartan Tonton Macoute too.

In fact I’d think it was nice. I hope you have a good time OP.

Leave your matterhorn at home and people won't know you're Swiss.

If we’re going down the clan road, you take your clan from your mother, not your father!

Aaaaaand I’ve just googled and found this isn’t the case! I’ve spent my life thinking that!

It's a wise bairn that kens his faither.

I was always of the belief that a child might not know who their father was but would know their mother so took their clan -I’ve been wrong all these years 😂

The last thing a kilt is, is cold!

But the wind will blow in every direction and will blow up your kilt and around your private parts

On came the gallant Scotch Brigade,
Their kilts in the wind were blowing.
None of them knew where the wind came from,
But they all knew where it was going.

www.poemist.com/billy-bennett/napoleon