Puttin' on my sporran, or: dinner at the Rockefeller's

[D_Chaumbrelayne_Copprehead]

Looking forward to hearing more. I have family roots deep in New York/New England crazy old-fashioned WASP culture, but no one on either side who wore kilts to certain occasions.

 

[D_Ireonsyd_Colonrinse]

kilt/tux...

Hundreds of people in Ethiopia are starving or dying from malnutrition because of the unequal distribution of the world's wealth as we hash out this haute couture issue.


Tempest in a teapot

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

Nick in a kilt is quite a sight. It needs a chiffon scarf tho.

 

[DiscoBoy]

Don the kilt. You'll be the best looking person in a dress, guaranteed!:wink:

 

[DaveyR]

Wear the kilt Nick and take a camera Jason :wink:

 

[jason_els]

You know there aren't actually any real "clan" tartans right ? All that was invented by Walter Scott.

So what? Every tradition has to start someplace! If it's good enough for The Baird then it's good enough for me.

Besides, the Baird plaid is quite attractive to my way of thinking :biggrin1:.

 

[D_Percival Puddleford Pukehorn]

Believe it or not, I'm packing it

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[Sergeant_Torpedo]

"Oh how we apples swim". If you aren't familiar with the aphorism in translation or its original French, then I doubt if your connections are all that cultured or sophisticated. Wearing a national costume to a wedding (Highland formal dress included) without belonging to the honourable or noble house of its designation is a faux pas the new rich and recently connected are increasingly making. How embarrassing!

 

[jason_els]

Europe has its traditions, we have ours. We find the way Europeans handle silverware to be atrocious as I'm certain you find our way backward. In any event, the wedding was in August. This is a reception in honor of the newlyweds and only dinner dress, not white tie, and there are various tartans that anyone is free to wear and I believe both of Nick8's kilts are of that sort. There's even a tartan for the City of New York graciously bestowed upon the people of the Big Apple by the people of Scotland and with the blessings of the Lord Lyon.

I don't own a kilt and so will wear a tie and cummerbund (it's ridiculously humid and warm today) in the Baird plaid which I am entitled to wear.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

So what? Every tradition has to start someplace! If it's good enough for The Baird then it's good enough for me.

Besides, the Baird plaid is quite attractive to my way of thinking :biggrin1:.

Oh no your quite right it's a lovely tartan, and more power to you for being proud of your heritage. I just wondered if you knew that's all. :tongue:

 

[chicagosam]

Remember not to twirl fast, jump in the air, sit with your legs open, or walk over drunk ladies.

 

[B_Nick8]

kilt/tux...

Hundreds of people in Ethiopia are starving or dying from malnutrition because of the unequal distribution of the world's wealth as we hash out this haute couture issue.


Tempest in a teapot

Baby, I love you more than life itself but sometimes I think you're going to give yourself an aneurysm if you don't lighten up.

So, a good 15-20 % of the guys were wearing kilts and they were all the hot ones. Hmmmm. I spent dinner discussing global warming with David Rockefeller who's right on board and Jason's Uncle Johnny spent a good 10 minutes flashing the guests with a badly thought out leg cross. The band was great and we went bowling at midnight in the lanes on the second floor in the Playhouse. Some pics were taken which may or may not be posted depending on my momentary weakness.

 

[funnyguy]

Nick, Did you wear the requisite long white stockings and laced shoes with the dagger in the one sock?

 

[yhtang]

the dagger in the one sock?

Is the name of the dagger a dirk?

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Is the name of the dagger a dirk?

Yep.

 

[B_theOtherJJ]

Ah, the life of the rich and Infamous !!!!

 

[hbritten]

I have news for you, gentlemen. You weren't the only lpsg members at the Playhouse last night. ;-)

 

[D_Ireonsyd_Colonrinse]

Oh, Nick8!

So sauve and cosmopolitan. Always jetting off to international locales and... these threads are like flowers in the spring... pubs and kilts and brie...

I love you too, babe.


I got you, babe.

And baby I love your ways.


YouTube - Sonny And Cher - I Got You Babe

YouTube - Peter Frampton-Baby I love your way

 

[DiscoBoy]

Some pics were taken which may or may not be posted depending on my momentary weakness.

The public demands these pictures!

 

[Roscoz]

So, Jason has been at me for weeks to go with him to a reception for his cousin's wedding. They were married in Scotland just this summer in what I'm sure was a lovely ceremony.

It's a small, intimate dinner party for 700 and it's being held at Kikuit (yes, Carol married a Rockefeller which is a big blah, blah, blah). I generally dislike this type of function so I gave the usual excuses: I think I have other plans; I can't find my tux (what, I'm rooting around my massive New York apartment?) and even if I did, there's no time to get it dry-cleaned, etc.

But he trumped me, big time. I got a pm with a "wonderful" solution telling me I didn't need a tux because,although it was black tie it was also, get this, preferably "Highland dress". As in, because just everyone has one hanging in their closet (and I'd made the mistake of admitting so in a post while I was in Edinburgh a week ago) all you have to do is pull out your kilt. Your KILT!

I could post his pm, but that might be a bit too overt. The point is, I've found my tuxedo. Really quickly. The last thing I'll be doing is going up the Hudson commando in a skirt. Seriously.

Tell him.

And you did'nt look me up :/