My wife is no fan of kilts and has also been harping on me to buy some straight cut jeans to replace the tapered leg jeans I typically wear. As you may have guessed, I respond to this by buying 5 kilts in a bit over a year and still wear the same jeans

Anyway, she shows up last night with a pair of jeans she wants me to try on :rolleyes: . I put them on and of course they are straight cut of course. She proceeds to go on about how much better they look. I go in the bathroom and stand in front of the mirror. Honestly, I didn't see much difference other than there was a bunch of cloth bunched up around my ankels. I thought, I just needed to pull them up a bit. Whoo! The crotch on these things is already maxed out! These are apparently "low rise" jeans! So, I have two ways to wear these...scruntchy around the ankels, or buried in my "stern" (not to mention the discomfort in the "bow". And now I'm destined to have to spend my entire day tucking in my shirt and pulling up my pants to keep my underwear or worse from showing!

So as I'm arguing my points about how illogical these are as clothing, my wife says "you have to get out of the 80's". An immediate calm falls over the bathroom and I lob the fatal blow over the wall and say, "so kilts are 80's?" Yes, a grand canyon leap of logic, but it did the job I think.

So, I'm wearing the jeans today and can honestly say that from the knee up, I have never been as uncomfortable as I am right now (except for the time in college when we squeezed 30 people into a VW beetle only to find out someone in there had been at an all-you-can-eat burrito bar)

However, it's days like this when my choice to prefer kilts is affirmed and I pitty "those who have not the stones" to wear a kilt.

Kilts Up!