Knowing what we all know now ...

**Raphael** · 20th March 06, 11:50 PM

I would have done it when I was in university.

**Andrew Breecher** · 21st March 06, 12:43 AM

I so would have done it in uni, if not high school. I'm glad I've chosen to do it now, in the summertime of my life.

Andrew.

**herminator** · 21st March 06, 01:09 AM

I´m quite sure I wouldn´t have worn kilt at school, I was a very insecure person then! I wouldn´t have dared to draw attention to me, being an outsider and having jewish greatgrandparents (yes, that was a problem in my class!)

It took me 35 years, getting married to a wonderful woman against my parents wishes, being baptised strictly without their approval and a severe depression for me to become a kiltwearing man!

It was worth it, though!

**Schultz** · 21st March 06, 07:19 AM

Had I had the cash back in high school, I'd have definitely worn a kilt to school and as much as possible. It would've made my mother happier than seeing me in the ol' "studs-n-leather" punk rock attire, that's for sure!

**Jewddha** · 21st March 06, 07:36 AM

Well, for me, my kilt at school is almost the "studs-n-leather" to the "studs-n-leather" about, on account of there being so many of them, and so few of me.

**auld argonian** · 21st March 06, 07:38 AM

Well, I went to high school back in the middle sixties and it would have been an incredibly tough thing to do...it was a boys' high school and the really cutting insults were those that dealt directly with one's sexual orientation...in retrospect this is sort of funny because I've subsequentally found out that not a few of my classmates were, in fact, gay.

But the problem was that it was high school, we were all in our teen years and insecure and the times were different. You wore a sweater that was "too pretty" and you got called every derrogatory name for a homosexual you could think of...so you could only imagine what would happen if you wore a kilt. It was not at all fair but what do you expect from a bunch of puppies fighting for position in the pack order?

I knew a couple of guys who were active in Irish step dancing back in grammar school...they had kilts as part of their outfits...they got out of it right quickly by the time they got to high school. The funny thing is that now my own son knows a kid in his high school that has attained a bit of notariety because of his Irish step dancing...I bet that this kid thanks Michael Flatley every day of his life for Riverdancing in pants instead of the kilt. I would have never had the nerve to wear the kilt in high school...all credit to the guys who do it now..they have thicker skin than I had back then.

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**mddock58** · 21st March 06, 08:09 AM

I was in HS in the 70's, insecure and not one to buck the norm.

Enough said, don't really want to remember specifics as to my fashion choices during those years.

**pdcorlis** · 21st March 06, 08:10 AM

Great Question! Well - I wish I could say YES I would have worn a kilt in high school and college but I have to be more honest than that. The truth is I didn't know who the H E double hockey sticks who I was back then... I do think I would have worn a kilt in my 30's and 40's but I was poor as a church mouse then. But... it all works out in the end and being kilted in my 50's is wonderful. Who knows - maby I get less grief since I'm an old fart in a kilt :rolleyes:

**possingk** · 21st March 06, 08:18 AM

I went to high school in the late 80's early 90', I wore cowboy boots and a hat to school every day, wore jeans to my senior prom (with a cowboy hat, matching boots) it obviously didn't bother me much to draw attention to myself. I wore a red jacket to my wedding (see aviar). I had a speech impediment when I was young, so I used to draw attention to what I was wearing hoping people wouldn't notice how I talked. I guess that has stuck with me to this day. The nice thing about the kilt is that people come up to talk to you about it.

So if HoseHead had gotten me into them sooner I would have worn them then as well. Kilts are much more comfortable than the jeans I wore back then.

**Kilted KT** · 3rd July 06, 01:10 PM

I would have worn them everywhere...without exception. I am certain that when I was in high school, it wouldn't have phased anyone. I was kinda the fashion misfit of the whole school, simply becuase it wasn't that important to me to wear the right clothes. Still had good friends and fun times...

the kilt would have only increased the fun, I would have to say.