I was asked an interetsing question yesterday

[Caradoc]

Being a mere sixteen, ah'm sure I've got a few more years to go before I can really call myself experianced in the art of kilt wearing however...

At this moment, you likely have more experience than I do in the wearing of a "modern" kilt.

I've been wearing the feileadh bhreacain for longer than you've been alive, if you really are sixteen, but the philibeg is a new experience for me.

[Angus]

Well for me its more......Well, I'll put it this way, when wearing pants I feel like I'm pretending to be something I'm not, fake sorta. While kilted I feel......like me, the real me, no pretense. I know that sounds stupid but thats about as close as I can come to a good answer.

[Caradoc]

GREAT KILTS AREN'T JUST FOR REENACTORS

Well, no, but people get upset if you wear that much wool into the server room, too.

[Angus]

Well, no, but people get upset if you wear that much wool into the server room, too.

<laughing> Yeah but it'll keep you really warm

[NewKilt]

I had a female physical therapist tell me a few months back that I looked like a man born to wear the kilt. That's how I feel. Certainly there is the history, the tradition, the ancestral ties (although that is certainly not a requirement), but I simply feel better dressed, more confident, and more at peace with myself.

Can a garment of clothing do all that? Seems to in my case . . . and probably so for many others.

Darrell

[andyfg]

I certainly feel more "at home" in a kilt. After wearing a kilt for a few days, going back to pants is quite difficult . . . very stifling and resticting. The pants feel quite strange. I then can't wait to get back into a kilt.