I would like to ask a couple of questions of this principle.

1. If I were to go to that school and wear a kilt would he think me unnatural?

2. How many of the founding fathers were Scottish in origin?

3. If the pupil had said he was gay and wore a skirt what would have been his conduct then?

4. If he had seen me wearing a kilt at a relatives funeral in America (which I did) would he have asked me to leave?

5. If the boy had been wearing a kaftan or any other clothing that does not constitute “pants” would that have caused him as much prejudice.

I have never seen so much rubbish in my life and I would feel very aggrieved if that was my principle. After all the kilt was worn CENTURIES before the US was even thought of.

No Sporran=No Place to Store Your Stuff.

A few Winter Days I skip it when I’m wearing a big heavy coat, because then I just can put my stuff in my pocket. Yes, you’re being picky and a lot of people are with the kilt. The Sporran, though is not that expensive compared to the kilt itself. The Sporran can run between $25-$350 depending on what kind you get.

I don’t recall how it all ended, but it was kind of funny to see it.

But duh, I married him.

And I’ve never known a kilt, or a skirt for that matter, to ride up and expose anything to cry about, but that’s also one reason for underwear. (sorry to disappoint, only real big fools die-hards go without)

In knee deep snow do you still wear a kilt?

I wouldn’t know. In Boise, rarely does snow reach above my ankles. In Montana, rarely would it actually be knee deep.

do you wear leg warmers?

-Yeah, I’ve got a set of Swedish Leg Warmers, I bought online a few years back. It saves wear and tear on my kilt hose during the Winter. Big thing with body warmth is to dress warm up top, and the bottom really doesn’t matter as much. The kilt I wear on cold Winter days is 22 oz. Wool. Anytime, I’m feeling cold, the people wearing pants are also complaining too.

Also, Michael I don’t own a donkey. However, when I fall, there’s not much of a ride up and it pretty quickly fixed.

Its not to say there’s not downsides. But, there’s problems with pants too. The infamous “Plubmer’s Crack” comes to mind, chaffing, as well as the tendancy of pants to split out at the most inopportune times. I remember once it happened when I was waiting in line to see a newspaper editor.

A quick question about kilts. In knee deep snow do you still wear a kilt? do you wear leg warmers? What if you fall on your ass and the kilt rides up ? It just seems so impracticle.

Pun fully intended?

I think you’ve got a point following the Strict Construction of the Constitution. However, that’s not what the federal court’s going to rule by. They’ll go by precedent. Which means if this goes to court and I certainly hope it wouldn’t, the school will lose.

But then, so are “free speech” advocates who say that a clothing style is political speech (that IS, after all, what the “free speech” clause of the First Amendment was written to protect).

Until kilts are firmly associated with a particular political POV, applying the free speech clause is trivializing the First Amendment.

(But then, people who make “historical” and “heritage” arguments for the display of the Ten Commandments and link them to the First Amendment are making silly—and dangerous—arguments, too. And that’s not my opinion. I’d be happy to argue these points as facts.)

Clothing styles as points of debate of “rights” are trivial. Sure, I’d be quick to argue that the principal (or other) who seeks to forbid a kid to wear a kilt ought first to enact—and enforce—a strict and explicit dress code. Absent that, fugettaboutit.

BTW, I think kilts definitely beat the pants off lots of “acceptable” menswear today.