first negative encounter

[michael steinrok]

At easter a few of the younger therefore more insecure relatives tried to make a few funny remarks.I made a few funny remarks back. They're young so it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Sometimes I try to encourage them to get a kilt of their own. Sometimes I threaten them with a kilt of there own! Cest la vie!

[BLAZN]

My boss was giving me guff about the kilt recently when I suggested he would look dapper in a kilt. I suggested that he could wear the US Navy Tartan as he is ex navy. I don't want to repeat what he said except that he suggested that all Navy men that wear kilts were fags. (his words gentlemen as I don't want to inflame anyone) You might find this offensive. However, I have to work with this idiot.

This active duty submariner would beg to differ. I'm 100% secure in my masculinity, and 100% straight. I've got the photos of the wife and kids to prove it. Your boss is a complete putz.

And this reminds me... my CO is a very laid back guy. The annual Navy Birthday Ball is in October. Between now and then, I plan to order one of these in the USN tartan. I plan to ask my CO if I can go to the Navy Ball wearing said kilt and the jacket seen below.

[James]

A rather belated response in respect of comments by Hamish.

Between us we probably tot up well over a hundred years of kilt wearing-at both informal and formal events: and have probably heard all the comments-several times over. Yet neither of us appear too worried if our skirt is called a kilt or vice versa [sorry chaps could not resist that one]. In fact it can be quite fun to hear a new one. So two of us from opposite ends of the spectrum, but with much kilt wearing experience-are saying the same thing.

Now moving on a bit, here in the UK there has always been a certain tradition of rudery sadly less so in these correct days. Thus a chap in the cavalry will be accused of being unable to walk-a rifleman, as opposed to heavy infantry 'a black button bastard' and so on. We also were brought up to laugh at ourselves, and I recall our colonel at a rifle competition cheering on our falling plate team with 'Up the MX', and then getting into his stride 'Right up the Mx'---and he was a very serious man of the regiment.

Now moving back to my earlier post, comments are often the product of a persons own fears, and or a a fear of anything that does not accord with the ways of their peer group-they are defending their own way and anything else is a threat.

So why bother about comments-they are either not worth bothering with, or just funny and worth a laugh. Certainly our own choice of nether garment is not worth getting too excited about, for it is a part of life rather than being life itself.

For there i a very old saying 'laugh and the world laughs with you'.

James

[davedove]

For there i a very old saying 'laugh and the world laughs with you'.

I like one of Confucious' sayings, "He who learns to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."

I try to take most such comments with humor and the others I try to ignore as they're not worth my time.

My beer festival buddies make lots of comments about my "skirt" and give me the "ladies first" line and similar things, but it's all in jest so I don't mind. Besides, they see all the young ladies coming up to check out "the man in the kilt".

[Moosehead]

Unfortunately, in these times, our Legions are full of the boorish buggers mentioned here. They have never served and have no concept of what the kilt means to those who have (Highland or otherwise). Legions have become, sadly in my mind, simply the local bar where these types go to get pickled without giving a damn about what Legions are really about.

[Iolaus]

My beer festival buddies make lots of comments about my "skirt" and give me the "ladies first" line and similar things, but it's all in jest so I don't mind. Besides, they see all the young ladies coming up to check out "the man in the kilt".

Ladies first? Hmm, that means you get your beer first, right?

[davedove]

Ladies first? Hmm, that means you get your beer first, right?

That's what I figure. Works for me!

[ByDand]

This active duty submariner would beg to differ. I'm 100% secure in my masculinity, and 100% straight. I've got the photos of the wife and kids to prove it. Your boss is a complete putz.

And this reminds me... my CO is a very laid back guy. The annual Navy Birthday Ball is in October. Between now and then, I plan to order one of these in the USN tartan. I plan to ask my CO if I can go to the Navy Ball wearing said kilt and the jacket seen below.

Jim, Go ahead with your order from Alexis Malcolm Kilts. I just got mine yesterday (pleated to the stripe) and it is beautiful. The workmanship is superb and the kilt was finished about a month ahead of schedule. Don't forget to get the flashes and fly plaid at the same time.

I'll post pictures in about two weeks as I am leaving tomorrow for two weeks away from home on business.

[GatorUK]

Then walked in this man and his buddy, coming to me and suggested I should be upstairs with the women as he said I was wearing a skirt! - to which I replied to him - "I have what you do not have - the guts to do it" it shut him up. In all times I have worn a kilt in public this was the only stupid coming from an obvioully not confident with his own sexuality.(he also was wearing silky pants?)

As a proper, polite, and distinguished US Naval veteran I would have stood in greeting and my response would have been the standard "It is a kilt and I was just upstairs with your woman. By the way, she says she will be right down when she finds her skirt and can walk again."

[davedove]

Jim, Go ahead with your order from Alexis Malcolm Kilts. I just got mine yesterday (pleated to the stripe) and it is beautiful. The workmanship is superb and the kilt was finished about a month ahead of schedule. Don't forget to get the flashes and fly plaid at the same time.

I'll post pictures in about two weeks as I am leaving tomorrow for two weeks away from home on business.

Alexis does great work. I got my first 8yd kilt (OK 9 yd in my case) from her, and it's the kilt I wear the most.

I've got a kilt and plaid in the US Army tartan coming from her. She includes the flashes in the price.