My wife worries about me

[davedove]

I think the problem is that the women are seeing their own "obsessions" from the other side. For years, women have had such a wide variety of choices in their clothes, whereas men had considerably less. Lets face it, one pair of jeans is much like another. With kilts, however, there is a wide variety of choices. Even if you stick with the traditional knife-pleated tailored tartan kilt, you have thousands of choices for a tartan. When you add in solid colors and the different styles, the choices multiply. So, while for such a long time men have been asking "Why do you need so many different pairs of shoes (or blouses, or skirts, etc)?", the women in a kilt wearing man's life now have to ask "Why do you need so many kilts?"

[Alan H]

Actually, my lady is pretty moderate when it comes to her clothing, though she does have a lot more than I do.

My post was pretty much tongue-in-cheek!!! But the responses are *twitch*...

reassuring...

*twitch*

No, really.....

*twitch*

[Christopher]

You know...my wife has never accused me of being obsessed per say, but she did call me a freak for wearing my Scottish National tartan tank to the Bite of Oregon in Downtown PDX about a month ago. As I came out from the bedroom dressed in a black polo shirt, kilt, wide brown belt with brass studs/D-ring buckle, brown sporran and brown Doc Martens hiking boots with appropriate hiking socks (looking quite dapper, I thought), she looked at me and said "Oh God, help me be a supportive wife in these difficult times". It made me chuckle but her true feelings were quite apparent to me behind the joking tone of her statement.

So confident was I that I wouldn't be the only lad in a kilt that day that I made a bet with her (a case of wine of the winner's choosing, to be paid in full within 2-weeks). We both enjoy wine, so this was a safe bet regardless of who won. Anyway, I reassured her as we approached the festival entrance that if anyone should be self conscious about what I was wearing, it should be me. It was at that time that she stated that it was hard not to be self conscious when your spouse is in "full freak show mode".

It was at that time that we stepped into the entrance line right in back of another traditional kilt wearing fellah and I won the bet. I pointed out 2 more gents wearing traditional kilts and about 8-utilikilt clad guys within the hour. It was after about the 10th blatant compliment on how good I looked in a kilt by pure strangers (some of whom were attractive young ladies) that my wife became much more comfortable with my attire and no more was said about my kiltedness.

All in all, it was a fairly satisfying experience and I think I will get less grief the next time I choose to wear one of my kilts out and about.

[Phil Wright]

You know it's an obsession when you HAVE to go weekly on E-bay just in case that 'special' one turns up! I got so close today...A Hamilton Modern Hunting (the family one) military pleated but only a 30" waist.

My wife also says it's obsessive when you can start just about any conversation and you get kilt thoughts in there. (- I don't know what she means as I never talk much about them.)

Ah well, back to saving up for the biggy!
Phil

[bubba]

Phil, I like the Hamilton Green alot. I have the Hamilton Red already and it's a sharp tartan. I hesitated to get it initially because red is usually not my best color, but it looks good.Some day I'll add the green to the collection.

[Archangel]

of course, there's always just acknowledging it as an obsession and getting on with life. Obsession doesn't have to be a bad thing.