Greetings from Kansas

[djimi]

Hello all! This is my first post. I'm very new to kilts, but have already fallen in love! I just got my first the other day, a utilikilt via ebay, and I love it. I don't yet have the guts to wear it out, mostly because of family, but I'm getting close! It just amazes me how much people care about what other people wear, as though it really affects them!

Are there any other kilt wearers in KS? Just curious.

I do want to say thanks for the forums, a great resource!

Djimi

[Jock Scot]

Welcome,from Inverness-shire.

[ardchoille]

from Seattle, WA.

Back when I started wearing the kilt, I wore it around the house at first. Then I wore it out to check the mail. As I grew more courageous, I wore it around town. Now I wear the kilt as part of my daily attire, I no longer own any pants.

Try not to worry about what others say, they don't write the rules by which you live

[sjrapid]

A warm welcome to the forum from London.

best regards

[12stones]

Welcome from Texas.

I feel ya. Unfortunately, sometimes family is the hardest on us when it comes to stepping out of the box, but you'll just have to go for it. For the most part, the response you get from GQ public will be favorable, but it's really all just about you. Take pics of you in the new kilt and let us see it.

[Mipi]

I think what djmi had in mind, refering to family is not meant as family forbiding him kilts, but rather to be afraid that family would have to deal with others comments.

At least this is my case. I don't wont my kids would have to hear comments like: "Your father is ..." and those kind of things.


Oh yes, welcome by the way!

[auld argonian]

First: a hearty welcome from a Chicagoan with family roots deep in Kansas...Marysville to be real exact.

And as my graddad used to say as we drove out there on family reunions:

Kansas!
Where roosters lay eggs
As big as beer kegs
With hair on their legs
In Kansas!

I think what djmi had in mind, refering to family is not meant as family forbiding him kilts, but rather to be afraid that family would have to deal with others comments.

At least this is my case. I don't wont my kids would have to hear comments like: "Your father is ..." and those kind of things.
:

Got to tell the story about a kid making a snide remark about the kilt. I wore it to my daughter's school to pick her up after classes and as I walked along I heard one of her little classmates doing a real "stage laugh" and turned to see her pointing at me and making a big show of how funny she thought it was. And I stopped and said, "...I seem to remember your dad running around here in his Kente-Cloth African Pajamas a while back...is that his ethnic outfit? Well, this is mine."

Point made.

Go get 'em...just don't let any smart-*** remarks wreck your good humor...laugh it off and be congenial.

Best

AA

[mcvarmit]

mr. djimi, welcome to the X, from ojo caliente, new mexico

semper fi
slick

[McClef]

from South Wales UK!

[Rogerson785]

from Manhattan Kansas, actually Saint George KS, just outside Manhattan and 25 minutes from Fort Riley.