Sir Walter Scott Made us Wear Kilts in Scotland 

And mentally scarred forever 😂

Willy you should add one to your wardrobe. Fun stuff.

I wore a kilt in a nightclub once. Never again.

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The real Scots never historically wore kilts, most Scots have never in their life once worn a kilt, it's also not even a Scottish garment, it's an English one - invented by the Englishman Thomas Rawlinson, he designed more for indoor wear. While the traditional Scottish garment was made more for outdoor wear and was worn more like an overcoat cloak that could double up as camping equipment- hence where the 'sporran' part came from in the traditional Scottish attire. Whilst the English version is worn more like a waste wrap garment, and the foreign Yankish (American Yankee) version is basically a plain coloured beige skirt, the latter is the least related to the Scots version, only the Scottish attire has a sporran, while the English one can but isn't essential and the Yankee version doesn't at all but just has pockets in the sides, so technically only the Yank pretendy scots roam about in skirts. Real Scots never did nor have most, although the actual real Scots that do just wear the English waste wrap garment but also use the sporran and it has to be in tartan - both of these things are still Scottish.

@@PredatorUpHill I do agree most of those tartan skirts worn aren't proper kilts worn by Highlanders which essentially were blanket wraps. Original or not though, it has been a marvellous marketing prop for Scotland which continues to this day, so hats off to Sir Walter Scott for that. What it also it did I think, was to promote and support the making of plaid cloth which is very traditional until recently. Today those having a "Traditional Scottish" kilt made for their wedding, are more likely to have a garment made from Chinese cloth. The only criticism I would have, is that the Highland image of the Scot, encapsulated by the wearing of Kilts, has led to a significant distorted understanding about Scotland's heritage (even by Scots themselves) which the tourist industry propagates, has it has done since Victorian times.

@@PredatorUpHill - Bagpipes are not inherently Scottish either ...

@@davideddy2672 Bagpipes are not inherently Scottish? They kind of actually are, the GHB is a native instrument to Scotland of which all analogous instruments that use its name are compared to based on the sound - Piobroch - which is a native classical form of Scottish music created in Scotland. Scotland is distinctly characterised by bagpipes as a result of Pibroch that no other nation has a comparible national tradition of. But if you're talking about 'bagpipes' in the sense of an instrument, as in attaching a whistle to a type of balloon device and then calling it a 'bagpipe' and lumping it within the Scottish instrument, that doesn't stop the Scottish instrument being Scottish, and the form of Scottish music it plays (Pibroch) which long predate many other instruments. Your claim is akin to stating that; * The flute is just a whistle. * A Mandolin is just a Lute. * A Guitar is just a Sitar. * A piano is just a Clavichord. * And a knife is just a type of stick, with an edge. Ect.

@@carminumbarritus8220 Agree, though it's made particularly worse by many Americans and Canadians, who not only distort them and the history but also mix and conflate them up with Irish national traditions such as Sean Nos and River dance etc and view everything via Americanised optics, you wouldn't ever see Irish national customs or traditions like Sean Nos and River dance etc not be clearly understood to be Irish, or the White Heather and Jimmy Shand etc in Ireland not being understood as actually being Scottish, the tourist industry has a lot to answer for on the surface but will only care so long as money is being made by those who power the economy for them, like most businesses, if it sees demand, it will try to cater to that demand, if it makes money.

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haha , great story . yeah Houston is a Scottish name I believe so probably alot of ancestral Scots over there

There's just something about a man in a kilt. It's tribal and noble and very very sexy.

A few scotts fought and died at the alamo, a texas honor shrine. And one of the flags in the settlers rallied round during that time is the bonnie blue flag with a single yellow star. But many instances in the united statesof its use, probably by contrarian Scotsmen. facebook.com/pages/Bonnie-Blue-Flag/112885082059570 Later referred to as the Burnet Flag, it was adopted by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 10, 1836. It consisted of an azure background with a large golden star, inspired by the 1810 flag of the Republic of West Florida. Variants of the Burnet Flag with a white star, virtually identical to the Bonnie Blue Flag, were also common. Other variants featured the star upside down, and/or ringed with the word Texas, with each letter filling one of the gaps of the star.

I have to tell people that I have the best heritage in the world. My people (great grand parents) came to the US from Scotland and I was born and raised in the great state of Texas.

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@@ScotlandHistoryTours You could see my house in it! I shouted at the wife, "oor hoose is in a you tube video!"

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@@kupus6622 Is that a Flemish Disguise or a Walloon Disguise? You've got to chose carefully in case you run in to a real Belgium while holidaying in Scotland 😉

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Like my husband wears a kilt when hiking or at home after work. Where I live, people wear a kilt visiting the markets or walking their dogs. No sentiments.:-)

Always thought it looks a bit silly to be honest, also subject to perves. Most real Scots have never worn one in their entire life, the Scots never historically wore one either. Although there was an attire that the real Scots did wear but it was geared more for outdoor wear and was worn more like an overcoat cloak that could double up as camping equipment - hence why the 'sporran' part of it came to be. But there has been modern foreign variations of it since, like the modern equivalent that is worn more like a waste wrap garment is actually an English invented garment, invented by Englishman Thomas Rawlinson, who designed the English version to be more for indoor wear. And then there is the fully foreign modern Yankee American version which actually culturally appropriates the English version, only it's in plain beige colour and uses pockets and the yank foreigners call it 'utilikilts'. So the Yankee version and the English version have their own distinctions seperate from the original traditional Scottish version. The aforementioned have always been silly looking to me, look like grown men dressing up like schoolgirls, not a look cool at all, and moreover, it serves no practical benefit - other than just being some showcase for the perves into softcover kilt porn and the odd weirdo who always wonders what kilt wearers wear under the kilt. So I've never worn one and never will, there was a wedding I attended once, I refused the waste wrap English invented garment and just wore the traditional male garment - trousers. Personally though I think if enough real Scots got together to bring back the real Scottish attire and modernised it a bit, it would look more like the much cooler looking Japanese style kimono, I think if the real original Scottish attire had remained and wasn't replaced by foreign interpretations then this is the natural evolution of it, it's baggy like one and also has the better practical benefit of trousers (historically trouser type garments were far better for things like horse riding) which made far better sense because male attire from each nation was based more on practicality and less on just elaborate dress for appearance alone like womens attire - which is more the philosophy that English and Yankish makeshift kilts are geared towards.

@@PredatorUpHill You are wrong. My husband is what you call a |real Scot" and loves to wear a kilt outdoors. (he's not the only one)

@@leannan070 Bagpipes and Kilts are certainly not Scottish!

@@davideddy2672 Where do you read that I say something like that? Anyway. my husband is.

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Well done man

Guid on ye pal

I was tempted to buy a kilt. I’m afraid the price put me off. But as an Englishman I had the conversation with a Scotsman that evening. He said after two thousand years of rape and pillage I had a right to wear a kilt otherwise either his ancestors or mine hadn’t done their jobs :-)

​@tedwarden5803 Did you ever do it Ted? If not, take the plunge the waters fine! It's a lot of fun.

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You are a Scot and a descendent of Scott.@@sc0tt1shpr1de4

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What part of the world do you compete in?? North America, UK or elsewhere? What grade??

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@@ScotlandHistoryTours Same here: You've got a new subscriber. You really do bring history to life. You're also filling in a lot of holes in my education. Kilt? I'm saving up for one. (edit: But which tartan? MacKenzie as clan? Gordon as regiment? Or do I get a sober anthracite grey that I can wear anywhere?)

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Whenever people ask me that, I say: "A wee loch ness monster. Don't put your hand underneath - she bites!"

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Nothing is worn under ma kelt .... It's all in good working order

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Same here Uniform shirt on top When we recently had our official department photos taken, I wore my kilt and although it wasn’t in the photo, my glengarry was (not the “bus driver” hat)

Yetr northumbrian/ lowland Scots were wearing the full kilt design way way before that!

In fact, Sir Walter Scott wore the Border Drab!

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@@ScotlandHistoryTours absolutely ....

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Brilliant! Welcome on board

Blame Braveheart for a lot of this kilt wearing crap in medieval times , Soeres Wallace , aka George Wilson I think his real name was , talked Mel Gibson into wearing all that plaid and stuff in Braveheart . Wallace would have had a quilted tunic , chainmail and a tabard with his family crest on it , aye Walter Scot and Braveheart and various other Hollywood films about Scottish history have a lot to answer for .

True, and a great analogy

@@charlestaylor8566 I've been studying history since I was a bairn, but when I saw Braveheart, I had not yet studied any of the history of William Wallace. I hadn't read very much Scottish history at all at that time. Yet even I knew that the kilts and face paint were not historically correct. It didn't keep me from liking the movie. Fast forward to The Patriot, a Mel Gibson movie set in my native state. I HATED this movie. I called it "Braveheart Does the American Revolution." Why did I enjoy one, and almost walk out on the other? I intimately knew the history of every battle in the Patriot, having been weaned on Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, and Andrew Pickens as a child. My dad read about them to my brother and I when we were too young to read the books ourselves. I had family in every battle shown in the movie. The way they played fast and loose with the history felt, well, sacrilegious to me. There's no other way to put it. Now that I've caught up a bit on the history of Scotland, Braveheart feels the same way. It's just something that's going to happen when Hollywood does history. As to Scott, I've always loved the man, and admire what he did for Scotland in spite of the circus sideshow nature of it all. He didn't do badly for himself, either! There's a lot of money to be made, especially off Americans, selling kilts, family tartans, and family coats of arms (don't even get me started on this last). Yet the man made Scotland's history, and it's many real characters, more romantic and heroic than the English, Welsh, or Irish, so he can't be that bad, right?

@@biggusgibbus8144 your right , if you can , try and watch a low budget movie called , The Bruce , by Cromwell Productions , it was made on less money than the opening bash for Braveheart cost , I was a extra in it, it’s clothing and story is much nearer the truth than Braveheart , history buffs is a good RU-vid to watch , cheers .

It's always spring in Scotland don't ye know

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There are many ways to look at every diamond and normally the heroes of my videos are the hero. Every one of them's flawed. I get what you're saying. We'll never know what would have happened to the sense of Scottishness otherwise. History doesn't give us that chance to do double blind experiments

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Fellow descendent aswell

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Your ancestors probably left for the same reason that Walter Scott's grandfather Willy Scott of Harden was almost hung. Caught by Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank stealing cattle, he was all set to Hang the miscreant when he remembered the daughter who he couldn't marry off. "Marry my daughter, Willy, and I'll spare your life!" Willy readily agreed until he set eyes on Meg... "Hang me, hang me" he begged, only when the noose tightened round his neck did he find true love and agree to the union.. This happened about the same time as your ancestors packed their bags and left these shores, 🤔

@@georgefuters7411 interestingly enough no but wouldn't be surprised if some did haha. my first ancestor in the US was a sailor and his ship was boarded and they were taken as slaves to South America by pirates on the way he and others escaped and jumped over board when they saw a ship nearby sailing to North america they took them there. he was planning to travel back but then met his future wife. It was a really weird but cool story we found records of.

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@@ScotlandHistoryTours "Scott named his hero after a Edinburgh train station". Until I saw JW Smith's comment, I wondered if anyone else had noticed this obvious gaffe--the train station was named for the hero Waverley, NOT the other way around. Was there even a train station in Edinburgh in 1814, when Scott's first novel was published? And of course, Waverley Station is not just "a" train station but THE (most important) train station in Edinburgh, even if there is more than one (which I don't know, since I haven't visited the city since August 1973). Despite this error, congratulations are in order for a fine documentary.

@vladimir74561 😂😂😂I suppose there are three stations if you count the one at Gyle as being IN Edinburgh. I can see you're not a local. JW Smith got it right to enjoy the joke rather than to misunderstand it as a 'gaffe'