Another interesting conversation

[Yaish]

Thats exactly right. I've noticed it with my own kilt experience, and you can even notice it if you look at other people in different types of clothes.

For example, next time you are somewhere teens hang out notice the goth kids. Sure they look stupid, but for some what they are wearing just seems natural. For others you can tell its a costume, a personna they are adopting for the moment.

For me, when I meet another kilt wearer at a festival or fair I can usually tell if they are daily wearers or just for special occasions. The daily wear guys just have their kilt on. The ones who just break them out for special occassions HAVE THEIR KILT ON! Even if they arent worried about being made fun of, they still arent entirely comfortable and you can tell the garment is foremost on their mind at all moments.

[Alan H]

You know, when I wear a kilt I find that I carry myself a little bit straighter and look people in the eye a little bit more directly. I'm not obnoxious, I'm not a stuffed shirt, and I don't get in peoples faces. I'm just a little bit more...Hmmm...

"Definite".

And yet at the same time, sometimes I'm temporarily unaware I'm wearing anything different. That's both good and bad, for me at least. So the thing is, I don't think I ever want to FORGET that I'm wearing a kilt........but I want to be at ease in it.

Which now, after five months, I am.

[GMan]

Kilt wearing is part of who we all are. Confident, taller, and a lot more comfortable.

I too had an interesting story while talking to a neighbor, two ladies walked up and said to each other see we do have a guy in the neighborhood who looks so natural while kilted.

Derek, your story seems like a natural to me, Thank You.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

What's funny is that when people see me in my kilt and ask what tartan I am wearing, I usually have to look down and check to see which one I put on that morning. :-)

Sometimes at the check-out line in the grocery the clerk will not even notice I'm in a kilt until I have to dig in my sporran for my wallet.

Aye,
Matt

[Geoduck]

We just rescued a senior cocker spaniel who looks like she could be a puppy (she's nearly 11). When I'm out walking with her, no one EVER comments on the kilt, just on how sweet she is.

Maybe it's Seattle, but I find that around here, no one ever has a snide comment for me.

[Graham]

I think I'm at the stage now where I find people stare at me and I wonder what they are staring at.

My aim too to to appear as much as I can as if I am wearing daily clothes, well, I AM, it's just that everyone else thinks I am dressing for a 'special occasion'.

[Derek]

I agree with everyones comments here. I think that if you look and feel relaxed and comfortable in a kilt, that is not half the battle won, but the whole battle. By the way Graham, I've sent you a pm.
Derek

[Hamish]

You know, when I wear a kilt I find that I carry myself a little bit straighter and look people in the eye a little bit more directly. .................................................. .................................................. ..........................................

That is interesting, Alan. I have never been good at eye contact with strangers and, since turning to exclusive kilt wearing six years ago, I find I am even worse at it, if that is possible. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I actually make a point of avoiding eye contact nowadays!

That does not mean that I shuffle along with my head down, far from it. I stride along with head held high - but I definitely, and quite naturally, do not look into other people's faces when out and about.

[Lee]

I would agree . . . more comfortable/confident in a kilt.
Now at the point, after a full 10 weeks full-time kilted at work, when I wore trousers one day, I had to explain why. Didn't have a good answer.
Not sure there is one.

Lee

[Rob Wright]

I would agree . . . more comfortable/confident in a kilt.
Now at the point, after a full 10 weeks full-time kilted at work, when I wore trousers one day, I had to explain why. Didn't have a good answer.
Not sure there is one.

Lee

My response usually is along the lines of "I'm doing something totally gross and disgusting, so i'm wearing the appropriate garment." :mrgreen:

Rob