Small Town Kilting

**Riverkilt** · 14th February 20, 04:30 PM

So I get in line at my little rural post office and up ahead a few places I see a big guy in a t-shirt and the back says something like Freedom is wearing a kilt. So I crane my neck and sure enough the guy is wearing a kilt - kind of unusual one - tartan with cargo pockets...maybe acetate type but STILL, a kilt in my little town.

And, dang, I'm NOT kilted...

Usually would try to hook up with him and at least say hello and awkwardly explain I normally am kilted...maybe he'd care.

But they way the line flowed he was gone before I was...and seemed uncool to shout anything.

Figure hey, if he is a local we'll run into each other sooner or later.

**McCracken140** · 14th February 20, 04:41 PM

This year in my town of about 5000 I saw someone else kilted at Remembrance Day. I was wearing trousers, being in uniform of course, but incidentally we both wear the Maple Leaf tartan.

**OC Richard** · 16th February 20, 06:03 AM

Makes me wonder how wearing a kilt would go over in my original hometown of a thousand souls in the middle of nowhere West Virginia.

Being that nearly everyone in town is of English, Scots, and Irish ancestry it might be accepted, who can say.

**McMurdo** · 16th February 20, 06:54 AM

The other morning as I was on my way to work, it was -20° C I was on the TTC our subway system I saw a guy wearing a Royal Stewart tartan kilt. I wanted to say something to him, but in the end did not. As I was dressed for a dirty job I was not wearing a kilt myself and came away thinking I should be wearing a kilt and kind of feeling bad for him at the temperature but think I did the right thing in the end.

**gsmacleod** · 16th February 20, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

The other morning as I was on my way to work, it was -20° C I was on the TTC our subway system I saw a guy wearing a Royal Stewart tartan kilt. I wanted to say something to him, but in the end did not. As I was dressed for a dirty job I was not wearing a kilt myself and came away thinking I should be wearing a kilt and kind of feeling bad for him at the temperature but think I did the right thing in the end.

I had to run to the bank the other day at lunch; it was one of the coldest days we've had this winter (about -15C with feels like of -25C) and I saw a guy walking down the street in a great kilt. As I was driving I just gave a wave but outside of historic sites, hotels in the summer or military/highland specific events, this is the first time I recall seeing someone wearing a kilt around the city.

Shane