Quote Originally Posted by ggibby
And going out in public wearing a $400 anything makes me nervous for my knockabout self. Life gets dirty sometimes.
Life DOES get dirty sometimes. I have thought exactly this more than once while wearing a traditional kilt on a casual walk uptown, trying to avoid the tarred telephone pools with my pleats. Usually I wear a casual kilt for such endeavors, but sometimes the soul gets a boost from feeling the weight and swing of a good ol' wool kilt.

Now, when I am really dressed nicely I have tallied myself as wearing more than $1000 worth of clothing and accessories. As we all know, this is quite easy to do when dealing with kilts, jackets, sporrans, etc... [As an aside, I used to work with an older woman who would have called me a "sport", which to her was a fellow who walked around all gussied up yet who had naught but wind in his pocket and empty promises.] Anyway, I know that I have earned my kilts and such through hard work and savings, still it can seem rather incongrous juxtaposed with the homeless fellow on the corner who invariably asks me for cigarettes that I never have.

Mychael