Sometimes Nothing Happens....Go Figure??

**Riverkilt** · 21st September 12, 09:56 PM

So business required a trip from my home town of Page, Arizona over to Window Rock, Arizona - a 500 mile round trip across the Navajo reservation. So, knowing its gonna be a 12 hour day I chose to wear my new British Rebel Tan leather kilt from RKilts. Figured the long day with a lot of sitting would help break it in and maybe even begin some patina on it.

Now normally leather kilts attract attention. But there was not one comment, double take, sideways glance, giggle the entire day. I drove with a coworker and we stopped at the Black Mesa Trading Post, the Blue Gap convenience store, the Navajo Dept of Highway Safety, the Navajo Dept of Behavioral Health, drove into Gallup, N.M. for lunch at King Dragon a large (and most delicious) Chinese Buffet, then back to Highway Safety, and back to Behavioral Health, then to gas and a convenience store at Burnside Junction, another stop at Black Mesa, and a local supermarket run after I got home.

Must have interacted with a few hundred different people...nothing. Coulda been wearing jeans.

Guess in some ways its a good thing that a leather kilt is accepted without comment....don't ever recall spending an entire day kilted over such a geographic area without some reaction.
I still had fun. Love the kilt. So comfy for travel.

**Oberu** · 21st September 12, 10:21 PM

My guess is that your so comfy in it that people don't even think twice.

**LitTrog** · 21st September 12, 10:23 PM

"Mama said there'll be days like dis, there'll be days like dis my mama said.

Mama said! Mama Said!"

You're an attention whore. And I dig that.

It's weird, though, when you're expecting some comment and receive none. I've had a similar experience!

**sydnie7** · 22nd September 12, 08:53 AM

Perhaps leather is more acceptable or recognized as proper apparel than tartan or the other solid fabrics you wear? Just a thought.

(If it strikes anybody as non-PC I certainly mean no offense or slight toward Riverkilt's friends and neighbors.)

**Chase** · 22nd September 12, 09:29 AM

Ron,

Your reaction to no reaction is your reaction my friend, because for every action, there IS a reaction!

**Riverkilt** · 22nd September 12, 11:15 AM

Not knowing is weird....usually get positive reactions out on the rez...the usual curious questions...I was in a good mood, not grumpy.

An attention whore without clients...

Taking the new leather on the river Friday....we shall see....

**Elf** · 22nd September 12, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Not knowing is weird....usually get positive reactions out on the rez...the usual curious questions...I was in a good mood, not grumpy.

An attention whore without clients...

Taking the new leather on the river Friday....we shall see....

And you always have such good photos. Looking forward to photos of the trip. However, have fun with or without camera.

**islandkilt** · 22nd September 12, 09:55 PM

you've finally reached kilting critical mass - that point where you've worn them so often and for so long that it's become commonplace to everyone within a 500 mile radius...

wear pants tomorrow and see what happens...

**Nick the DSM** · 22nd September 12, 11:05 PM

Those are the times I like best.

**Riverkilt** · 22nd September 12, 11:59 PM

Thought critical mass = meltdown....never did well in physics...

When the ladies in Window Rock office would hear I was coming they'd ask for me to wear a kilt. This time no comments.

One can hope that maybe we're getting to the point where no one else cares...like no one minds women wearing pants to work anymore....

For sure on the Glen Canyon pics Friday...