# Kilts in Braveheart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 22, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564 "2001-08-22T16:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/21 "2001-08-23T17:40:56Z")
Of course, at the time, no-one thought to ask if he went regimental (which he did). Nowadays, that would probably get your diploma withheld! I wonder who’s job it would be to check… Funny- he had a knife in his sock and no-one even noticed. Ah, the times they are a-changin’. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/22 "2001-08-23T17:58:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by geepee \* > \*\*ARGHHHHHH > > Scotland was never conquer at anytime , its just that the english beat them rather often , then sometime about 1700-1800 watnot ( ican never recall the date but it was long before the panama canal) the scots made a bussiness venture > to make a trading post at the thinnest point at panama so that ships did not have to go via cape horn , this bussiness venture had 1/3 of all scottish gold involved in it and , it failed , failed badly and then the English went > to scotland with a chest full of gold equal to the amount > the scots had spent and said “your debt will be ourdebt” > etc etc something like that and scotland became our allies > \*\* The venture you are referring to is the Darien colony. 1697 to 1698, IIRC. It devoured close to half of Scotland’s capital, and failed in no small part because of royal sabotage; King William ordered Jamaica and all the other royal colonies to boycott the Darien colonists. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/23 "2001-08-23T18:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > There is nothing finer than a Scot in a kilt! Or sexier. How about watching a Scottish regiment “die” feet downhill during a historical reinactment. …With the wind blowing uphill. …And the tv cameras rolling. …And the museum director running about flipping down the wayward kilts of the “dead” men. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/24 "2001-08-23T18:26:41Z")
Mmmmmmmmmm… Interesting… “_Lad, I don’t know where ya been, but I see you won first prize!_” ---
**Author:** ![Kate\_W](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Kate\_W](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kate_W)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/25 "2001-08-23T20:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*Ordinarily, I am all for historical accuracy, but I admit I loved all the kilted men in _Braveheart_. > > There is nothing finer than a Scot in a kilt! Or sexier. > > When my younger brother wore his kilt with all of it’s accompanying finery to his high school graduation, the women swooned and the men were jealous! > > Skirt, my ass! \*\* If you have a local St. Andrew’s Society, it’s worth joining for the scenery - they wear their kilts for every meeting, event, etc.! ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564/26 "2001-08-24T12:48:03Z")
Or you can just go to Scottish festivals in Texas - then you’ll get to try to guess which one’s me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kilts-in-braveheart/77564.md?page=1)