You can watch the warriors of Bravehart on television with their kilts around the men's waists while they are participating in the annual Highland games or running through the glen. They have a dirk boldly hanging by their side. They're also crowned with sporran, and colored brightly with tartan. Obviously, they're kilts and they have a style of their own. However, do kilts have any place in today's society? If you ask any Scotsman, he'll respond with a resounding aye. Therefore what role does this a kilt of tartan have in the current age of designer fashions?
In the first place, in the current society, numerous people want to connect with their roots and find their identity. There are Scotsmen who are spread out all over the world both as expatriates and as emigrants. Wherever they are located, many of them want to find their roots and reclaim their identity.
Because the Scottish identifies the kilt with Scottish families or clans, their sense of identity can involve into much more than simply being Scottish. Also the tartan kilt can represent universities, schools, Provinces, States, corporations, countries, counties, and districts. Therefore, the wearing of a tartan kilt can create a sense of belonging to a noble and long tradition.
There comes a sense of pride of being Scottish and the inheritor of this unique culture and history from this tradition. The fact is that the kilt played a primary role in the forging and developing the identity of Scotland as a country. After the Jacobite rebelled against the probation of wearing Highland kilts, the Highland minority originally wore the Highland kilt in 1746 which ultimately became the symbol of the independence of Scotland. The Lowland Scots displayed their rebellion by wearing the sporran and the kilt, although it once was only the Highland Scots who wore the kilt.
In addition Scottish kilts simply look so good. If you want some proof to see how distinguished the kilt is, all that you have to do is simply have a look at Sir Sean Connery in full Highland garb. Although it was another knight who summed up the status and style of the kilt so perfectly in the evocative phrase, "A man in a kilt is a man and a half."
Therefore if you want to find your Scottish roots, try wearing a Scottish kilt. You'll look very distinguished and reconnect with your roots.
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