A Scots visitor complained about the “dignity, morals and respect” of women in Stalybridge – after her husband was repeatedly groped because he was wearing a kilt.
“I’ve never seen this kind of thing before,” she said from their home in Scotland. “I’ve been to goodness knows how many functions where men have been wearing kilts and I’ve never known behaviour like it.”
Men in kilts. Why do we love them?
Even when they wear pink shirts?
Men in kilts are deemed sexy. Yes, just go ask Sharon Struth, author of The Hourglass and the soon to be released, Share The Moon. The woman can’t contain herself. Of course she knows that here in Scotland men don’t go around dressed like this…
In our weather? They’d get pneumonia for a start. I just don’t know how to break it to her it would be…. in your dreams, doll.
Settle. We all know you’re secretly planning to bite my throat or something. Where were we? Oh yes. Kilts. Well, here’s the thing,growing up in Scotland men in kilts were kind of infra dig. Sexy? Excuse me. Now just go put sexy kilts into Google and see what comes up.
Also google kilts… I did and found this.
“Thomas Rawlinson was an 18th-century English industrialist who is widely reputed, though not without controversy, to have been the inventor of the modern kilt.“
Which doesn’t make a lot of sense when Wikipedia also says,
‘The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century.’
I’m kind of thinking that there’s been a mix up with plaids and kilts. Plaids being what the Highland clans wore, the colours and patterns. associated with the local weavers. In the aftermath of Culloden…
the Dress Act of 1746 attempted to bring the warrior clans under government control by banning the tartan and other aspects of Gaelic culture.
While I never said exactly when His Judas Bride was set, I always saw it before then when the clans were very much laws unto themselves and thought nothing of knocking one another’s socks off. Their kilts too. It’s what the battle for Lochalpin is about really…. 
Anyway, enough of this history stuff. Kilts? I did a little asking around about why we find men in kilts sexy. A woeful 80 percent thought it was because of what was underneath. Yes. Shocking, eh? 4 percent liked the ‘wiggle waggle’ whatever that is… 7 percent liked the whole Scottish business: Tartan. Castles, Nessie. The lot. 9 percent liked the bare knees.
Of course that was in my survey. You might have a different answer but there is no denying that men in kilts have taken off. Do you find them sexy and if so…why?
So what does Callm, the hero of his Judas Bride wear or not…
Seriously..oh come …don’t you want the big reveal?
Or would that be what’s under it?
Oh toughen up and get with the kilt…
I leave you with an extract from His Judas Bride…a heading towards a hot bit extract….
Reaching out her hand she grasped the neck of the whiskey bottle. He stood on her path to heaven. What other choice did she have but to remove him?
She wiped her mouth. Then she cleared her throat. “Sir.” It was the most ludicrous formality, given what she planned, but she needed to start somewhere. Now he’d sat down on the edge of the bed, the opportunity was perfect, especially as he unfastened his tunic ties. “About… About…”
“What?”
Every single drop of moisture evaporated from Kara’s mouth. How awful was this, to be so little skilled in the art of seduction when he was the Black Wolf of Lochalpin and this was her last card?
She ran her tongue over her lips to moisten them. “Why I ran away.” Touch him? She was going to have to. At least put one hand on his shoulder, so she could wriggle closer. “About…about there being someone else.”
Having her hand in a honey pot in a cave full of starving bears would be easier, considering the freezing glare he shot at her. Of course, he was cold. They both were.
“What about it?”
Must he be so difficult? So obtuse? When it was perfectly obvious?
“What do you think?”
Grasping her skirts she wriggled deliberately onto his lap. Not as gracefully as she’d have liked. Her teeth were chattering too badly for that and she’d done something to her ankle. She clutched another shallow breath, not just at her daring. Sweeping the damp hair back from the sides of his face, she pressed her mouth to his.
To love, honor, and betray…
Very informative especially the photos. Who is that first man think I may have a crush!!! 🙂
For once…I don’t know! That is the truth. No I am not keeping any muses to myself here. This is NOT like the time Incy Black sent me a pic and went who is this guy and I said….My Wolf muse, hands off. Honest. I just googled men in kilts and there he was. Though I would say that in the first draft of HJB the Black Wolf was dark haired and probably not unlike this guy. Then I changed it cos I thought the dark hair was too obvious.
Personally, I think it’s the bare legs and the footwear. I don’t find the kilt the least bit feminine and then paired with heavy footwear – It’s a very masculine look. Okay, it’s freakin’ hot. Especially if they’re not wearing a shirt or the shirt is very tight fitting. But that’s just my humble opinion 😉
Anne…do you want a hanky to wipe your PC screen with? I have a few spares oh humble opinioned one. x
After the week I’ve had, you are a blog for sore eyes. What a treat. I agree with Anne. It’s the bare legs. And Gerard Butler is hot in anything. But a kilt with a sword in his hand? I love you, Shey. This made my day. And pass the hanky.
Oh Aubrey my dear. I hope this is gonna be a better week. Oh Gerard Butler was another possible Wolf muse at one point but he never made the final cut! He is kinda hhhhhhmmmmmmmm in that pic though. Anne, you still got that hanky x
I may have to reblog this next week just for easy access. 😀
Oh please feel free…We won’t ask about easy access to what though…..(Sorry girl, you led with your chin there!) xxx Seriously I would be thrilled.
William Wallace of course didn’t bare his knees, didn’t paint his face blue and almost certainly didn’t lie there all misty eyed and dreaming of a free Scotland while they cut his bits off. In fact – is there anything about ‘Braveheart’ that’s even remotely authentic?! the first time I visited Scotland, I was in Stirling and mentioned the film, in all innocence. I was in a pub at the time. It is not an experience I would care to repeat…
Oh thon Stirling fowks are like that. Nae plaisin’ them. Braveheart? My feelings were that they took a patriot known to us Scots and put him on the world stage and they had nice scenery …even if half of it was shot in Ireland. So much of Wallace’s actual life is myth it’s hard to say what is real. There is the story of an association with Dundee, which could be true or false. There’s a ton of stories really. The only lines he said that are on record are the ones about him not having sworn allegiance to Edward. I think the shiltron bit was right enough. He was a guerrilla fighter. But I think Hollywood got the notion of painted Celts and stuck that on. And I gather that the Princess did have a lover but it was yir Welsh freedom fighter instead.
Shehanne,
Nice touch with the blog! There’s nothing like a hottie in a kilt:) Very sexy and very masculine.
Valerie how lovely of you to come by. Thank you so much for commenting. Yeah I guess you’re right. So long as he’s a hottie!! xxx
Kilts are way overrated you know!
You mean you’ve never worn one?
Men in kilts? Yeah…. I’m all swoony for guys in kilts 😀
Great post, those hamsters had me laughing so much! You always write such amazing posts 🙂
Aw Harliqeen, I just am off the wall is all. I would love to be the serious kind. I do set out to be but it never ever happens. Pass. Lovely to see you and welcome to the we love men in kilts club.
I don’t get the kilt thing. Even though I’m part of the Gordon clan, I have one, but never dared wear it. Being well under six feet tall I’d look like a Smurf.
BTO??? I don’t get it either… I mean I very definitely handed my hot-Scot hero a plaid and leather britches. You know though, you never know, you might look just fine! I am sure you don’t avhe to be over 6 foot to wear one.
More BTO, my US and Canadian buddies go swoony when you say kilt. The Scots ones now….? Their response is somewhat different.
I’m going to go to work in my kilt today.
way to go. Do we have a picture??
Oh my! I suspect you’ll enjoy my graduation photo, then:
Please do feel free to share it! In other words. C’mon !
Just look under my comment, then 🙂
(although I didn’t realize it’d be quite this large!)
My lord…. so good I have 3 words. Dinnae be modest.
Oh and can I put this on my Kilting the Book Page?????????????
Lol – you’re too kind. How can I say no to such a flattering offer? 😀
I’m not kind. It is a nice pic and I will get it out there! It’s time we had a nice kilt.
Sigh… I knew, it; everyone wants me for my kilt :b
Hee hee..to quote one of my heroines…. Oh, not at all. x
Would you take down just the second photo starting from the top, it´s me !!!
OOH. Send all the gals your way then!!!!
There´s already a line around the block!! Would you tell them to please stop with the stalking…
I will do my best but you know what these hussies are like especially where there’s a kilt!
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Hugs kate. Just saw this believe it or not xxxx
Shehanne, oh wow!! ⚡🔥⚡This is a hot post!!
Your hamstahs are so funny!! You are a wild and hilarious woman to be able to handle those Dudes. The kilt does add a certain classy look and “genesay-quoi” to those rowdy critters.
My good friend in Mississippi is part of the Holliday clan in Ireland. Her kilt is cute, but too small now that she is an adult. My Dad’s family is half Scottish and half English. He was so excited about “Braveheart” (years ago now. . .) and his plaid is mainly black, blue and gold. No red in it.
My goodness! Now that I have been “prim and proper” may I drool, lean in to check out the muscles, test the durability of the cloth on the men’s kilts? !? 😉
I suggest a “home visit” by a kilt wearer to give massages from any of the above men? (Not to sound silly but I mean grown up men, please!!)
Your book sounds fabulous and definitely “smexy,” my dear Shey!
Now may I borrow your hankies or tissues? 😅 😌 Drool from mouth and perspiration from under arms and reddened, flushed face here. 😊 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. 🔥
Robin, a few weeks back I cracked a rib and now I think I cracked it again laughing! Truly. Sending you a man in a=kilt with a hanky to wipe the drools, ahem… I mean sure you can well..use him for that. Great to know you have some Scottish blood there. YOu check the durability any time. you have the right!! This book is unavailable presently since etopia binned all non US authors recently BUT I have good news to share re the Etopia books and the best bit is that I have revised it . I was given two weeks after I signed the contract on it to change the plot cos the heroine wasn’t who she said she was and they thought it was like Fury that way. Anywya, in the rush I never really changed the actual character and for me she never quite worked BUT I have now rewritten her. Just finishing up some revisions on Fury and then I can get the books away to a new publisher who wants them xxxxxxxx
How did I miss this, fabulous post? Lovely pics, fascinating information too.
Cath, you’re always so kind. I wanted to have a bit of fun but actually it is so how kilts have kind of changed up here. xx
One of the best thing about studying in Scotland were the regular Ceilidh parties and the men in kilts of course lol all that twirling around! They even got George in a kilt when he left Stewart Melville College. My brother is now up living permanently in Kirkcaldy after four years studying in Glasgow and two years on a grad program but he’s resisted letting his Scottish fiancé get him into a kilt, its too damn cold 😂 .
LOL, you are right. my mr wore one for both the girls’ weddings but you won’t get him one either. He only did it cos they asked. But the Ceilidh parties are brill. We went to this Ceilidh when we went Arisaig, it was on in the village hall that night to end some Highland Games thing, as chance would have it and nothing else was, so the Mr who does not like Ceilidh’s either agreed. Well boy do they know how to Ceilidh. It is the first time i have ever been at anything where the second half started at 2 am.