Advice needed!

[thescot]

By all means tell him. I'm sure you'll do it nicely, but to allow the fellow to walk around like that is like allowing him to proceed with his pants unzipped--only worse.

[Spartan Tartan]

Certainly you can bring it to his attention in a subtle way.

I will just be looking for the post tomorrow from someone complaining about the kilt police telling him his kilt was on backward

[Meggers]

Certainly you can bring it to his attention in a subtle way.

I will just be looking for the post tomorrow from someone complaining about the kilt police telling him his kilt was on backward

LOL I was thinking that exact same thing. Somebody on the boards is going to post tomorrow like ".....thanks guys. That was me. I was trying a new trend."

[SoSelkirk]

It would sure be easy to start a conversation by "asking if he had web access and had ever visited www.XMTS? "

"The rabble there are very welcoming and informative and can help explain that many persons accidentally wear their kilt with the pleats in the front, etc."

Just a thought...and don't have to feel like you are the dreaded 'kilt police'.

[SoSelkirk]

By all means tell him. I'm sure you'll do it nicely, but to allow the fellow to walk around like that is like allowing him to proceed with his pants unzipped--only worse.

It could still be worse if unzipped and not wearing any underwear???

[gary meakin]

I've heard this a couple of times and I still can't believe somebody could wear their kilt backwards and not notice it was different from
EVERY OTHER KILT WEARER IN THE WORLD
Show him a picture of your favorite pipe band.
Take him to your nearest Highland Games.
Ask him if he's ever seen anyone else wearing the kilt.
When he first got it and put it on, did he check with someone to see how it looked?
Did he see a picture of it before he ordered it?
Obviously you shouldn't say any of this to him.
Like everyone else is saying. Be nice, but definitley tell him...before he runs into someone like me

[Newfoundlander]

One option without actually having to say anything and possibly embarrass the poor lad, is to wear your kilt and make sure he sees you.

Chances are he'll see you and think "is he backwards, or am I?" With that he'll likely hit 'kilt' in google and get a thousand right-way-around pictures, and he can quietly excuse himself to the mens and turn it around.

This will also avoid any awkwardness of telling him and finding out that he knows and is wearing it backwards on purpose. You never know... he may be...

I'd to that I think. Or totally change tack, be totally blunt/sarcastic, and ask "why isn't your shirt backwards too?"

my 2p

[Mickey]

Definitely tell him. He may be embarrassed at that moment, but it will be better than learning later that he was wearing it wrong. Me? I would pull him aside and correct him. Just as with my fly being open, spinach in my teeth, booger in my nose, something in my mustache, etc, I have held nothing but gratitude for the kind stranger who let me know rather than allow me to continue to look like a moron.

[Zardoz]

I had this come up today at the renfaire, I saw a fellow in a kilt with the basting stitches still in. As I appoached him I saw he had it on 'sideways' as well, with the right hand buckles in front.

So I greeted him and pointed out the stiches and buckles etc, and he said "Thanks man, I didn't know", to which I replied "no worries, glad to help" and moved on. I saw him a couple hours later, and it looked like he had the stitches out, but still had it on side ways.

[Nighthawk]

Tell him you are so sorry to see that the transporter beam glitch is still getting body parts backward.

No more beaming!! I'll walk!!

So- onto the OP... I have struggled with something like this in the past. I saw a guy wearing flashes with sandles and no socks- just garters wrapped around his legs! He thought that because his kilt came with them, that he was supposed to wear them. Just be polite and tactful!

I had this come up today at the renfaire, I saw a fellow in a kilt with the basting stitches still in. As I appoached him I saw he had it on 'sideways' as well, with the right hand buckles in front.

So I greeted him and pointed out the stiches and buckles etc, and he said "Thanks man, I didn't know", to which I replied "no worries, glad to help" and moved on. I saw him a couple hours later, and it looked like he had the stitches out, but still had it on side ways.

I always tell people about the stitches if I see them! I had a friend tear a hole in his new kilt once because he didn't take the stitches out.