Why don't we see more men wearing kilts?

[jeanfor]

Well I have a few cheaper kilts for casual wear and some nice wool kilts. Now, I am very fit so the cheap kilts look good on me as well!

[thecompaqguy]

Here in London, it's mostly just pipers that you will see kilted, though I think there's a lot more out and about kilted than we think! Just a basic Twitter search for "kilt man" will yield a lot of tweets, with pictures, though more juvenile Tweets may use the term "manskirt"... annoyingly the term kilt is also slang for killed

I feel like going out kilted but the weather has been too poor lately... also fools like Kanye West have done the kilt no favour in the eyes of the youth. Saying that, its nice to stand out now and then.

[cck]

I can't understand why more men don't wear kilts. Every time I do, I get great compliments and I have never had an unpleasant experience. That being said, I have lived in this city, which now has a metropolitan population approaching 2 million, for 22 years and I am out and about constantly. If themed events, performers, and parades are excluded, I can recall seeing only 4 men (3 of them on a couple of occasions) wearing kilts. My kilts are tartan kilts and I may wear them in public a couple of times a month. As much as I have tried by setting an example, I have no evidence I've influenced others. Has anyone had a more positive experience?

[jeanfor]

Same here, I wear a kilt every week, so quite often and I have compliments or some people don't even notice, but I have very rarely seen other men in kilts.

[kiltedrennie]

I wear mine about once a week on average. Mostly to casual work days. Sometimes around town and out to dinner. Quite a bit to the local renaissance festival, but that's obviously not the situation we're discussing.

I have only run into one other person wearing a kilt and, unfortunately, it wasn't the same time I was. It was a young boy at a local restaurant. He ran by so fast I had to look twice to believe what I saw. I had a chance to complement his mother on the kilt. She explained that his grandfather wears one quite often and it was a gift. He had it one that day because he gave a presentation to his school class about his ancestry.

Once, walking out of the local pub as a couple was walking in, the female significant other said to her male partner "Hey, you should have worn your kilt!".

Other than that...

[tundramanq]

I was skeptical at first as to how kilts would be accepted in public.
When I had enough kilts, I decided to wear only kilts, everywhere, everyday for a one month trial. In that time I learned they are quite well accepted, mostly admired by both sexes, lost "the hunted look" and met many interesting people who I normally wouldn't, some who wished they dared or owned or wanted to own a kilt. That month was September 2010 and I haven't looked back.
My kilt sightings around town have gone from near zero in 2010 to about 3 a month now.
I will see a lot of kilts around town soon with the Rio Grande Celtic Festival about a week and a half away - for those who think they need a another reason?

[thescot]

To answer your question why?

It takes a real man to wear a kilt, so . . . .

[rmccool]

There be sheep and there be goats to lead them....

Aye, and a few sheepdogs to guard them.

[rmccool]

Has anyone had a more positive experience?

I don't wear my kilts to church services, simply because I don't want to be a distraction to people whose attention should be focused on worship. That doesn't extend, however, to not wearing a kilt when I'm working at my church. (I'm the volunteer safety and security director, IT guy, and a deacon.) Recently, I wore a contemporary kilt (TDK) to a Saturday work session of the church board. On Sunday morning, one of the other deacons asked me where I got the sporran (Stillwater Kilts Nightstalker) that I was wearing on Saturday. It seems he's been quietly developing an interest in the kilt, and really liked the modern sporran design.

When I ordered my TDKs, I mentioned it to several friends. Four of them ordered kilts, and at least two of them have worn them publicly that I know of. (One definitely hasn't, and I'm not sure about the fourth.)

Wearing a kilt is just like everything else we do in life... it influences those around us. Sometimes we find out about it, and sometimes we don't, but it's always an influence.

Wear your kilt(s) proudly!

[Kiltedjohn]

Even in Scotland, very few people seem to wear the kilt as "everyday" wear. When I spent a week in Edinburgh recently, I wore my kilt for the entire week. It was a very positive experience, and there were some very complimentary comments, but I seemed to be on my own. Living in England, I haven't had the courage to go out and about in my kilt - perhaps some day?!