Promotion of the kilt & is it a skirt!

[Riverkilt]

Been home sick with a cold...ventured out to get supplies and stop at the post office to pick up mail (they don't deliver up here).

So coming out of the post office I meet a Navajo friend, ex-Marine. I'm wearing my new Pittsburgh Kilts Desert MARPAT and he just smiles and says, "Where's your bagpipe Marine?" But he said it with the utmost respect of a friend talking to a friend...nice....a sideways compliment spoken with respect by a friend.

Ron

[Riverkilt]

Been home sick with a cold...ventured out to get supplies and stop at the post office to pick up mail (they don't deliver up here).

So coming out of the post office I meet a Navajo friend, ex-Marine. I'm wearing my new Pittsburgh Kilts Desert MARPAT and he just smiles and says, "Where's your bagpipe Marine?" But he said it with the utmost respect of a friend talking to a friend...nice....a sideways compliment spoken with respect by a friend.

Ron

[James]

Carrying on from my earlier post--after all these years of kilt wearing I cannot get bothered about a kilt being called a skirt--after all we all wear skirts--that's right-on our coats.

More interesting is the attitude of the speaker: if it is positive as it always is-then a plus point.

Whilst unlike an earlier commentator--I on average get at least one compliment every time I go into central London. Ranging from 'nice skirt' said in a complimentary way to 'I do like to see the kilt'--'You do look good dressed like that': to serious chats about tartans etc. [Can I get away with claiming my natural charm and good looks--or are they taking pity on the grey hairs!]

Having said that, I well appreciate the need to differentiate kilt wearing from cross dressing-which is certainly not my interest. Too I must realise that my experience of having worn the kilt since childhood-and now being 68-I've not had to face the battles - problems: that many of those reading this post must have faced, and still do face. This possibly leads me to take a more relaxed attitude to things.

So I'd suggest that it is context and intent that is important: and when positive as said it always is--then a plus for kilt wearing.

James

[James]

Carrying on from my earlier post--after all these years of kilt wearing I cannot get bothered about a kilt being called a skirt--after all we all wear skirts--that's right-on our coats.

More interesting is the attitude of the speaker: if it is positive as it always is-then a plus point.

Whilst unlike an earlier commentator--I on average get at least one compliment every time I go into central London. Ranging from 'nice skirt' said in a complimentary way to 'I do like to see the kilt'--'You do look good dressed like that': to serious chats about tartans etc. [Can I get away with claiming my natural charm and good looks--or are they taking pity on the grey hairs!]

Having said that, I well appreciate the need to differentiate kilt wearing from cross dressing-which is certainly not my interest. Too I must realise that my experience of having worn the kilt since childhood-and now being 68-I've not had to face the battles - problems: that many of those reading this post must have faced, and still do face. This possibly leads me to take a more relaxed attitude to things.

So I'd suggest that it is context and intent that is important: and when positive as said it always is--then a plus for kilt wearing.

James

[James]

Carrying on from my earlier post--after all these years of kilt wearing I cannot get bothered about a kilt being called a skirt--after all we all wear skirts--that's right-on our coats.

More interesting is the attitude of the speaker: if it is positive as it always is-then a plus point.

Whilst unlike an earlier commentator--I on average get at least one compliment every time I go into central London. Ranging from 'nice skirt' said in a complimentary way to 'I do like to see the kilt'--'You do look good dressed like that': to serious chats about tartans etc. [Can I get away with claiming my natural charm and good looks--or are they taking pity on the grey hairs!]

Having said that, I well appreciate the need to differentiate kilt wearing from cross dressing-which is certainly not my interest. Too I must realise that my experience of having worn the kilt since childhood-and now being 68-I've not had to face the battles - problems: that many of those reading this post must have faced, and still do face. This possibly leads me to take a more relaxed attitude to things.

So I'd suggest that it is context and intent that is important: and when positive as said it always is--then a plus for kilt wearing.

James