White Shanks

[Riverkilt]

So, its hot out now in the Northern Hemisphere. I'm kilted wearing pushed down soccer sox for kilt hose to work and sandals on my own time.

Friday I'm kilted at work and a coworker lady starts teasing me, and another female who was wearing shorts, about our GLARING WHITE LEGS.

She had a point for sure...even this deep into the summer our legs are lily/china/milk/snow/white white white. The lady in shorts is of classic Irish ancestry with red hair, pale skin, and freckles. My DNA turned out to be Scandanavian last year...so hey...what's wrong with white legs?

Got me to wondering though...any kilties out there who don't have time to tan their legs use any self-tanning lotions or creams or sprays?

I mean our legs are BRIGHT....but its way too hot to wear kilt hose and I ain't gonna hang up the kilts for the summer since they're much cooler than you know what.



Ron

[GDub]

If you really want to lose the pasty white leg syndrome, you should spend a little more time outside, Ron.

[skauwt]

white legs id love white legs being Scottish i tend to have a pale light blue complexion

[Brother Falldown]

Standing there, in the deep blue sky of the Colorado Plateau, with San Francisco Peak dominating the horizon, how can you possibly be concerned about some ninny's opinion regarding the complexion of your legs!

[Carolina Kiltman]

I would suggest pancake make-up, if you feel the need to fake a tan! I used to envy a good friend's ability to get a nice brown tan, (He was about 1/4 East Indian), while I am totally Saxon/Celtic with the emphasis on Celtic ancestry.
I tried mightily to get a tan, and always wound up blistered and in agony. I was in my early 20's when I finally gave it up.

Now some 60 years later I am paying for it. I have had over 50 squamous cell and basal cell cancers removed along with two melanomas! One from my right buttocks (skinny dipping). and a whole raft of actinic keratosi which are merely a mild nuisance.

The dermatologist informed me that the damage was done by the time I was 18 or so.

Whatever you do, use plenty of sunscreen when you go out with the mad dogs and Englishmen in the noonday sun.

[English Bloke]

SPF 50,000! That's what I use... I look like a channel swimmer when I go out in the sun.

[Dall_Piobaire]

I'll take the whiteshanks as opposed to crocodile skinshanks and skin cancer any day!

Sure we may look white, but we will look whiter longer, and younger to boot!

[Jordan]

Your legs dont look that white to me ron, they look a nice healthy pale colour.
Now if your legs had a pale light blue complexion i would start to get worried lol

[dfmacliam]

and that is a good cause not to wear white socks... you will not be able to tell the difference between socks and shanks...LOL

[Riverkilt]

You guys crack me up.

I do use a lot of sun block, and my work and play often keeps me indoors...hence the lack of an "expected" tan. Not sure I'd use any self-tanning products, but wondered if anyone else out there did....in order to look tanned when indoors and kilted with no hose or pushed down hose.

Ron