Plaid men: Dressed to Kilt takes Manhattan

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Dressed to Kilt -- the seventh annual exercise in Scottish pride that involves men in skirts and plaid-clad women returned to Manhattan’s M2 Lounge on Monday night, raising money to benefit the Wounded Warriors program and the Paralyzed Veterans of America through a nonprofit group called Friends of Scotland.

Among the attendees were Sir Sean Connery, ‘American Idol’s’ Kellie Pickler, Indy 500 champ Dario Franchitti, Mike Myers, a more pneumatic than we remember Andie MacDowell and, in what was perhaps the oddest ‘celebrity’ turn of the evening, Amber Lee ‘Obama Girl’ Ettinger, in a red floor-length tartan dress (who knew she had any Scottish in her?)

Ostensibly a ‘judged’ catwalk contest, Pickler pulled down the award for ‘most elegant,’ male model Marcus Schenkenberg for (you guessed it) ‘sexiest model,’ ‘Gossip Girl’s’ Ed Westwick took honors for ‘most stylish’ and Mike Myers took home the (Scottish Canadian) bacon in the ‘best catwalk comic’ category.

I still have fond memories of one of the earliest Dressed to Kilt events in L.A., in 2003. It was the first -- and last -- time I wore a kilt. You can read the whole story here, but let’s just say that I ended up feeling more like Mrs. Doubtfire than Braveheart by the time I made my public debut in a skirt.The memory still haunts me to this day

Some things are just better left to the Scots.

-- Adam Tschorn

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