Utility Kilt Question

[Alan H]

Do you mean blåkläder as in this: http://www.blaklader.se/sv/produkter/kilt
If so were they workmen?

Strangely enough "blåkläder" means "blue clothes" and none of their kilts are blue!

Well, the guys might have been manual workmen on vacation, but they were headed into a pub, across the street and down about 1/3rd of a block so I don't really know. I can't SWEAR they were blåkläder kilts, they just made me think of 'em, at first glance.

[Mel1721L]

Actually, you might get much the same reaction inin thethe UK as you might get in Spain. I say that based on what some other lads here on X Marks have written. Utility-type kilts are pretty rare in the UK, too.

I thought it hilarious fun when in Scotland this summer, not only did I wear a polyester-viscose kilt to dinner with Jock Scot, but on that same outing, we spotted the very first utility-style kilts that Jock had ever seen. They were on some tourists, entering a pub across the street, about 100 feet away. I think they were Blacklader kilts, but that was a bit of an eye-opener for Jock!

It'd only be worn in a clients premises, I'm thinking of doing live in care like my wife does, so we can
Rotate time spent away. I think on the street could actually be dangerous in many areas.

[Aron27]

I own a utilikilt, the original in dark green. I love it, i do a lot of hiking and fishing with it. Its very usefull for going into creeks, even when it gets a bit deeper.

For my experience: poeple think a lot that the kilt is straight out from military surplus - the dark green colour makes that appearance. When poeple come up with it i m joking them at the beginning and everybody is then positively surprised about the fact, that the kilt would have a modern revival.
i think also the utilikilts look quite tough, i get less comments compared to a scottish tartan kilt, which is immediatly recognized from evreybody. Utilikilts look kinda rough ;)

[Mel1721L]

I own a utilikilt, the original in dark green. I love it, i do a lot of hiking and fishing with it. Its very usefull for going into creeks, even when it gets a bit deeper.

For my experience: poeple think a lot that the kilt is straight out from military surplus - the dark green colour makes that appearance. When poeple come up with it i m joking them at the beginning and everybody is then positively surprised about the fact, that the kilt would have a modern revival.
i think also the utilikilts look quite tough, i get less comments compared to a scottish tartan kilt, which is immediatly recognized from evreybody. Utilikilts look kinda rough ;)

I'm considering one for work next March, but there are a bewildering variety. Ithink I prefer the khaki colour, that or black.

[Java]

If you already own several tartan kilts, and wear them regularly, then you're probably already thought of as "the kilt guy" in the places you frequent. If you throw a canvas one into the rotation, it would be thought of as just another one of your kilts. The worst comments you might get are "I like the plaid ones better" or that kind of thing.

It always amuses me that here in the one section in the one forum on the whole board that is set aside for conversation about contemporary kilts, the first half dozen comments in every thread are posted by men that wouldn't be caught dead in one. I UNDERSTAND that if your phone or browser is set up to just show all of the new threads, then that removes them from this context. I'm not calling them out or anything, I'm just saying, when you take these posts in the context of this forum, it's funny.

[Mel1721L]

If you already own several tartan kilts, and wear them regularly, then you're probably already thought of as "the kilt guy" in the places you frequent. If you throw a canvas one into the rotation, it would be thought of as just another one of your kilts. The worst comments you might get are "I like the plaid ones better" or that kind of thing.

It always amuses me that here in the one section in the one forum on the whole board that is set aside for conversation about contemporary kilts, the first half dozen comments in every thread are posted by men that wouldn't be caught dead in one. I UNDERSTAND that if your phone or browser is set up to just show all of the new threads, then that removes them from this context. I'm not calling them out or anything, I'm just saying, when you take these posts in the context of this forum, it's funny.

Yes I suppose I am the kilt guy. Didn't really look at it that way. I think there is enough difference between traditional and contemporary kilts to have seperate sections on the forum though. I wonder if there are utility kilt wearers who don't wear tartan. I suppose there must be. Anyway, although I'm not keen on them, I can see the practical application for work purposes.

[CDNSushi]

The kilt is a very distinctive, recognizable garment. And I agree with the "kilt guy" comment. It doesn't take long, believe me. This summer, I wore a utility kilt on some of my delivery runs (organic produce to local restaurants and markets). Although I only deliver to any given place once a week usually, most people would have seen me in my kilt.. What.. maybe twice? But this past week, I chose to wear slacks and I swear, no less than 3 different kitchen staff asked me why I wasn't wearing my kilt... Lol.

And on that note, there really didn't seem to be ANY cognitive distinction between tartan and utility. For most people there isn't. A kilt is a kilt, is a kilt. Some workman laying paving stones asked me where I got mine, and then proceeded to tell me his entire Scottish/Irish family history. Keep in mind, that pretty much everything you see here on XMarks in terms of topics we discuss, represent 100 times MORE detail about kilts than 99% of the population will ever know.

BTW, as for there being people who wear utility and not tartan kilts... I used to be such a person. And I would venture to guess that many of Utilikilts' customers probably never go on to buy a tartan kilt. Again, as popular as XMarks is, we still represent a very narrow demographic.

[Mel1721L]

The kilt is a very distinctive, recognizable garment. And I agree with the "kilt guy" comment. It doesn't take long, believe me. This summer, I wore a utility kilt on some of my delivery runs (organic produce to local restaurants and markets). Although I only deliver to any given place once a week usually, most people would have seen me in my kilt.. What.. maybe twice? But this past week, I chose to wear slacks and I swear, no less than 3 different kitchen staff asked me why I wasn't wearing my kilt... Lol.

And on that note, there really didn't seem to be ANY cognitive distinction between tartan and utility. For most people there isn't. A kilt is a kilt, is a kilt. Some workman laying paving stones asked me where I got mine, and then proceeded to tell me his entire Scottish/Irish family history. Keep in mind, that pretty much everything you see here on XMarks in terms of topics we discuss, represent 100 times MORE detail about kilts than 99% of the population will ever know.

BTW, as for there being people who wear utility and not tartan kilts... I used to be such a person. And I would venture to guess that many of Utilikilts' customers probably never go on to buy a tartan kilt. Again, as popular as XMarks is, we still represent a very narrow demographic.

I tend to wear shorts if I'm working or just going for bread or something, simply because its quicker and easier to change and wear a kilt for going out anywhere else including dog walking, in all I've only been a kilt wearer for about 6 months and its quite radical for me and kilt wearers in Spain are rarer than hen's teeth. I don't think I'd be comfortable out and about in a utility kilt but for working in, it remains a possibility.

[ratspike]

I wonder if there are utility kilt wearers who don't wear tartan. I suppose there must be.

Yup. I love tartan but don't have a lot of interest in wearing it myself. I do have a Graham that I alternate with a solid black kilt when my wife and I shoot weddings as I need to be dressed fancy-like. Otherwise, no tartan for me. I wear camouflage a lot.

[jayhawk]

My first kilt was for using when my band played at our local Renaissance Festival...I know (and knew then)...that historically accurate - although the kilt I wear looks more like a Phillabeg than a more modern kilt. It's a dress Gordon - chosen because it best fit with the rest of my renfest garb.

Around town, though, I much prefer my olive Amerikilt, and I get a ton more compliments in a college town wearing the utility kilt compared to when I wear the Gordon tartan.

I really need to get a saffron kilt, too. I'd get a stillwater, but the darn things are too long for me...or I have to wear them at my armpits.