Lead weights needed?

[Graham]

Today at the veggie market I was loading a box of fruit into the back of the Xmarks custom vehicle ;) when a man leaned over and told me that on such a windy day I needed lead weights in my kilt. It was said in a spirit of humour, I laughed and told him it didn't worry me!!

I have always loved Bears thought "when I arrive I like to make a good impression, but when I leave, I don't care what they say about me".

Still, I will never understand why a man like this wouldn't mention lead weights to a woman in her skirt.
I guess a woman is more attractive to catch on a windy day than me!

[switchblade5984]

yeah i would agree there sorry........ maybe in San francisco

[GMan]

Graham,

Maybe the gent was trying to drum up business as lead weight salesman.

[Southern Breeze]

Your not the only one Graham,I've been told that several times.

[bubba]

The weighted hem is an old trick the girls used to use back in the days when skirts were mandatory school dress for girls. One of my old girlfriends went to catholic high school and she sewed small fishing sinkers in the hem of all her school skirts.

[Hamish]

.................................................. .................................................. ...............................................I guess a woman is more attractive to catch on a windy day than me!

Having had the pleasure of meeting you Graham, I'll go along with that!!!!;);)

[GlassMan]

Sounds like a trick for the overly-modest.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

I guess a woman is more attractive to catch on a windy day than me!

It's not you buddy. There's just a thing called "human nature" that allows a man with a stong "appetite" to admire and cherish the beautiful bits that the opposite sex has to offer.

If, however, she looked like the Michelin Man he would be allowed to ammend his comments.

[Shay]

Still, I will never understand why a man like this wouldn't mention lead weights to a woman in her skirt.
I guess a woman is more attractive to catch on a windy day than me!

Yep- but I've been told by other women that for stopping updrafts, putting a couple large safety pins or the like in the hems of skirts really helps hold down the fort, so to speak.

A man might not mention it to a woman, but they might mention it to a man- after all, wouldn't men know more about men's garments and vice versa? I assume you'd tell someone if you noticed their tie was tied wrong, or if you saw them struggling with a too-big belt, how to poke new holes in it... Obviously, not everyone's in charge of everyone else's appearance, but I've seen men give each other advice of a kindly sort.

Why are you assuming that men are treating your kilt as a skirt? Do you really think if you showed up in frills and high heels he would have made a friendly suggestion? You're a guy, wearing an unsual male garment, that he probably thinks is wicked cool, and wanted to strike up a conversation with the kiltwearer, but since so much of male bonding is portrayed as razzing and one-upmanship, he went with what he knows. The fact remains though, that he said something to a man he would probably never even consider saying to a woman.

I'm increasingly seeing comments on the board like, "He wouldn't have said this to a woman!" Well, I hope not! Because you're not a woman, you're a man, and men have a gender-based comraderie just like women do... they're just (usually) not as talkative about it.

I don't know why this is getting my goat, either... maybe the implication that men should be telling women how to dress because they want to talk to you about the kilt just riles me. :razz: Dangit- this is coming out negative, and I don't mean for it to... I'm just not equipped (obviously) to talk about how men start conversations each other except by observation, but I think that's what happening a lot of times you're accusing them of treating you like a 'woman.' (Unless they're whistling at you and saying, "Hey, pretty mama," I think that's right out!)

Anyway- kilts are not women's skirts, everyone says that all the time on this board. So maybe you could assume people aren't treating them as such, but are actually trying to dialogue with you about something they don't know enough about to start talking on their own?

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Shay, great post! Haven't seen much from you in a little while (or so it seems, maybe we have been following different threads or I missed you), but I think that you have hit on something. I have found that people (men and women) that have never spoken to me before at work have come up with a comment about the kilt, or something else entirely. Now that I wear a kilt, I am easily recognized. For example, one of the ladies who cooks in the on-site cafeteria saw me at the grocery store Saturday, just after I walked in and took my long coat off. She was walking by our cart, and when she saw the kilt, came over (actually pretty quick and aggressively!) and said "You work for ?ITCD?, don't you?" (Company name masked to prevent legal issues, but you can figure it out). I said yes (and she looked familiar to me), and she mentioned that he was a cook there and had seen me at lunchtime.

Anyway, we were discussing men making comments to other men about the kilt. Today while standing in line at the cafeteria to pay (which explains the above side track), a gentleman in line behind me asks where you buy a kilt and if you can buy them locally on Chicago. I respond that I don't know of a local source, and that I have purchased all of mine on-line. He comments that the lack of an inseam measurement must make it an easier to fit!

Anyway a good experience, and he was just trying to strike up a conversation about the kilt. Although, he at least referred to the kilt while doing so.