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Thursday, May 22, 2008

No Jew Scotsman...

...(see what I did there?) would actually wear this Tartan as it lacks one of the two colors that truly define Judaism: The black of "Black&White" (and the white is only included as part of the Blue&White of the Isreali flag so...yeah...you know what, I think I'm gonna leave that one alone).

However, you have to give this person points for creativity and originality.

Ach, it's na' a skirt I tell ya'...it's a Kilt! It takes a real man to be able t...oh, who am I kidding.

11 comments:

  1. No pictures? Disappointing. But there's usually black as a background filler color.


    Yet somehow... I just can't visualize the heimish crowd proudly baring their hairy knees no matter what the color scheme. There's nae a gallus man among them - at least in the wardrobe department.

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  2. Heaven Forefend!

    What kind of Kilts do you take these for?
    I don't know what they wear where you come from but of course it goes without saying that there will be no knees showing...hairy or otherwise!

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  3. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!
    MAZAL TOV!

    Seriously, I always wondered if there was a Jewish Tartan. It'll look good with my bagpipes! And I can wear it to Whiskeyfest.

    But I'm curious if these two sites have anything to do with eachother:
    http://jewishtartan.org/
    http://www.jewishtartan.com/index.htm

    Because if they don't, then before you know it we'll have 2 Jewish Tartans! I guess one will be the Frummer one and one will be the less Frum one.

    And there is already one Tartan associated with the Jewish people. The Clan Gordon tartan(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Gordon) is associated with Jews from this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_George_Gordon

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  4. Of course my dear, we have full tights over our feet.... Not even an inch of leg showing.... (blech) LOL

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  5. Lord George Gordon died childless in prison for rabble-rousing. We're hoping he really escaped to Eastern Europe secretly and fathered a dozen children, but...

    Another possible Scottish connection is that Peter the Great brought Gordons back to Russia to teach his generals to fight. Possibly one converted?

    The most likely answer is that it's a distortion of a name of a Russian town.

    A properly fitted kilt just comes to the middle of the kneecap, though modern style is to wear it slightly shorter. Or are Jewish kilt-wearers going to copy bais yaakov maidels and wear it to the ground?

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  6. my husband wants to know where he can get one

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  7. (yes yes i see the product and price list on those websites....)

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  8. p.s. are they checked for shaatnez? :)

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  9. Yes, they are! http://www.jewishtartan.com/jewishtartanhistory.htm

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  10. A properly fitted kilt just comes to the middle of the kneecap, though modern style is to wear it slightly shorter

    Well, if you are going to define "properly" using the secular standards then I gues we have nothing to talk about!

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  11. As someone who was in Scotland just last summer, I can attest to the shocking dearth of kilt-wearers within the Jewish community (in Glasgow, at least).

    But then again, that's not so surprising: do you know how much a kilt costs?!

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