Dropped out of kilt wearing circles

[cessna152towser]

Hi, just joined the forum and it's re-assuring to read that many other men are still wearing the kilt. I used to wear a kilt for playing bagpipes - till I sold my pipes to help pay for flying lessons (where a kilt isn't practicable wear). I used to wear a kilt to Scottish Country dancing until my wife took a stroke and so we had to give it up. My wife bought me a black kilt a few years back which I thought I would only ever wear to occasional funerals then a few weeks after I got it I suffered a leg injury and couldn't get into trousers so teemed it up with Argyle Jacket, white shirt and black tie and black hose as a kilt suit to wear to the office. It was so well received that after my leg was healed I still wore it occasionally to the office and also to conferences. Then I changed my job and stopped wearing it. Wife says I've still got the legs for the kilt, at 54, and would like me to start wearing it again. But so few men wear kilts even here in Scotland nowadays and those that do all look so much younger and more macho and I've bottled out of stepping out the door kilted a few times now. Please give me encouragement.
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[flyv65]

Welcome aboard, and welcome back to the kilt! I'm sure that whatever encouragement you're looknig for can be found here, as well as a tremendous amount of informations on topic various. ;-) . Prehaps when yuo get a chance you could post a pic or two of you kilted.

Bryan...I enjoy the tartan guessing game...

[mbhandy]

Welcome aboard,
If you want to wear your kilt Wear It and the comment about the legs Pooh POOH. I am 58 going on 59 and proud of it. (Thought I'd never make 40.)

Checkout my legs?

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Wear Your kilt with pride. After all you are in The Mother Country.

MrBill ;-)

[Southern Breeze]

Welcome aboard. Wear it with pride and who cares what you look like!

[Big Paul]

Welcome to the forum and welcome back to the kilted life!!:grin:

[bikercelt1]

Welcome to "Xmarks", and welcome back to kilt wearing. I think it will come as a bit of a surprise to some of us here in the states that a Scot would have any hesitations about wearing a kilt. You will find though that most of us here wear our kilts because we want to and any explanations are for the sake of others rather than justification for ourselves. So...encouragement? Get out there and wear your kilt!!! You deserve to feel good about yourself, ignore the doubts!!!

Jamie

[Kiltman]

I'm nearly 60, do Scottish Country Dancing, and proudly wear a kilt. My wife likes it, my daughter likes it and my son wears his kilt when he has the chance. I've come to regard it as another garment, like pants and wear it when I like.

[GlassMan]

Welcome aboard and SHOW THOSE LEGS!

[switchblade5984]

put the kilts back in scotland!i have been wearing them all the time and love it! you know you want to so go for it you and the wife are the ones that matter!

[Kilted Stuart]

Welcome,

Let us know how it is to wear a kilt in scotland these days. Has peoples view of the kilt changed. It seems people wear them mostly for special events, is this still true.
Most of us dream of a kilt in Scotland, some of us have or will get a chance one day. A few of us are envious you get to don the kilt there everyday if you choose. It may not be a big deal to you because you live there. It's fine to pine about doing these things in your ancestrial home and long to see Scotland again. The kilt, friends and my family are the only tyes to Scotland for me right now. Wearing one there is like going home.
It's like the line from a Spirt of the West song '' There's nothing more Scottish than the Scots abroad''. If you are here you dream about it. Some that live there live life not knowing what it's like to miss it and take living there for granted. Until they leave.

Kilted Stuart