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Lt. Colonel Johnny Thompson of the Scots Guards and Handsome Men In Kilts **Appreciation Thread
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What are the details on Johnny Hothunk? (That name still cracks me up!)
What do we know about him…the good juicy stuff???
What do we know about him…the good juicy stuff???
Let's just agree that we all take turns holding that ladder.Volunteering to assist @bag-mania with the ladder-holding task!
I wonder how the kilt evolved to become such an iconic costume
From a practical point of view, it doesn’t offer much protection in battle, is not warm and is…not particularly masculine (a skirt)
However, it has no connotations of weakness and femininity (togas) and the only other clothes I can compare them to is to a roman legionnaire’s uniform
From a practical point of view, it doesn’t offer much protection in battle, is not warm and is…not particularly masculine (a skirt)
However, it has no connotations of weakness and femininity (togas) and the only other clothes I can compare them to is to a roman legionnaire’s uniform
NOT the smelly sweaty one on the left, that’s for sure!
OMG just googled Johnny Thompson Scotland Guards and this thread came up as the second entry!!!! (The first was a Twitter thing.). Well done Maggie!!!
I think the short answer is, because a kilt is recognizably a kilt in any of its formats.
Most ancient dress is “very long piece
of cloth” because until 300 years ago, making cloth was an expensive and time consuming process.
The original Belted Plaid was 6 yards of fabric, half of it wrapped about the waist with pleats around the hips and straight in front. The other half was arranged around the torso in a variety of styles.
The Little Kilt (what is worn by men today) only has 3 yards or so, and the back pleats are stitched. It was developed for Scotsmen working in furnaces.
As for the association with masculinity- that’s most likely due to the Dekilting Act. After Culloden, George III and his brothers were determined to subdue the Highlands and squash any sense of national pride. Kilts were illegal. The only exception to this was the highland regiments.
Basically, the only people who could wear their National costume were military members. They wore a red coat, cut high to make room the the voluminous kilt, a round blue bonnet, a leather sporran, red and white knee-length hose, and black buckled shoes. The highland regiments were frequent mentioned in dispatches during the Napoleonic Wars
Then came Sir Walter Scott and the English romantic movement (1789-1820 ish) and suddenly the Highlanders were the British equivalent of Nobel Savages. The first British king (after James I) to wear colors was Prinny (George IV) in 1822. Suddenly, it was trendy and sexy rather than dangerous and uncivilized.
What a thread! Thank you, @Maggie Muggins 
I was told by my Scottish relatives that kilts developed originally because of the boggy marshy moors - pants were always wet up to the knee when out walking.
I have never checked historically for the accuracy of this, but it does make common sense.
I was told by my Scottish relatives that kilts developed originally because of the boggy marshy moors - pants were always wet up to the knee when out walking.
I have never checked historically for the accuracy of this, but it does make common sense.
I really liked Jason Knight in Forged in Fire in his leather kilt 
Also Jean Paul Gaultier looks cracking in a kilt...
Also Jean Paul Gaultier looks cracking in a kilt...
I really liked Jason Knight in Forged in Fire in his leather kilt
Also Jean Paul Gaultier looks cracking in a kilt...
The weekend issue of Major Jonny 'Hothunk' Thompson:
Oh dear we have competition.
Don't tease us, woman, WHERE IS THE VIDEO LINK??
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