First post, first question

**Pour1Malt** · 3rd October 06, 02:09 AM

walcome tae the rabble!

guid oan ya fur fin'in us...

e'en if ya needed help frae Da Tony

slainte mhath!

**Norbydog** · 3rd October 06, 02:25 AM

Let me guess, most, if not all of the friends you talked with are male. Wear your kilt out to a party or some other gathering, and await the female's and/or stranger's reactions. I assure you, they will be more positive, and you will be the center of attention (the place to be when you are at those kinds of events and are a strapping college lad) There will be some idiots asking about "your skirt", but check out some of the one liners on the kiltday page and you can beat them with humor.

I am past college age, but I still remember those days. I live, and went to college, in Nebraska.

P.S. If you wear a Wildcats shirt to the upcoming football game versus the Nebraska Cornhuskers, you got a pretty good chance of getting on TV. Plus, you'll be the one your section will be talking about after the game. And people you don't even know will be asking you about it later.

**Jerry** · 3rd October 06, 02:50 AM

I agree with Norbydog. You've been asking the wrong group. Ask the young ladies on campus and you'll get a different opinion. And once you wear it and your male friends see the attention you are getting from the females, they'll change their minds.

**TheJrSp8** · 3rd October 06, 03:06 AM

Well, I've asked some of the ladies as well, and they've said pretty much the same thing. But, I guess we'll see what the reaction is once I get it and wear it on campus. Hopefully the responses will be different once I'm actually wearing it.

**porrick** · 3rd October 06, 03:20 AM

Hi, and welcome from northern Norway!

I teach at a University college, and often go kilted to work. The reactions from the students are nothing but positive, and have even had female students asking if I could convince their boyfriends to get themselves a kilt.

One thing is what your peers say now - another thing may be when they see you have pride and guts enough to go kilted.

You have undoubtedly read numerous postings on the forum referring to kilted experiences. Interestingly enough, when in Dumfries last month, lads in the age group 18-25 were extremely positive to kilt wearing - even though they did not themselves go kilted.

**andyfg** · 3rd October 06, 05:00 AM

Welcome from upstate NY. I think you will find a difference when you actually wear the kilt. You will find a lot of respect.

**auld argonian** · 3rd October 06, 05:16 AM

I'd say just dress very "campus kilt casual" and don't let your wearing the kilt turn into a protracted discussion...just treat it like a matter of fact and have a "that's the way it is" attitude. Once people see you wearing it it won't seem so odd to them but there are always folks who want to make an issue of it (at least in my personal experience) and letting it turn into a discussion just gives them a soapbox to stand on and criticise. You just have to take a "you're entitled to your opinion and I'd be grateful if you kept it to yourself" outlook on things and never let them push your buttons about wearing the kilt...if you loose your cool, the critics win.

But more important: just wear it and enjoy it. It's really something that you do for your own pleasure and when you project that, the critics will see that they can't get you down and just give up.

Best

AA

**O'Neille** · 3rd October 06, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by porrick

... have even had female students asking if I could convince their boyfriends to get themselves a kilt.

Welcome, just wear it, your "friends" may have sensed you trepidation and used the opportunity to expouse their Y chromosome. Nothing says you've got a set like wearing the kilt with pride.

Porrick, I'd like to volunteer to become the defacto boyfriend of all the lovely ladies who need a kilted boyfriend. Especially any with trust funds or private jets to commute from Arizona to Norway. O'Neille

**switchblade5984** · 3rd October 06, 10:18 AM

i have had people tell me that but i have never had them follow thru with it

**Captain** · 3rd October 06, 10:22 AM

I think the important thing is to be yourself. If you're comfortable in the kilt, then it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks... And true friends aren't going to shun you or ridicule you because you dress different from them... But while I'm on the topic, lemme share something with you that happened just yesterday...

The wife and I went out to dinner and stopped on the way home to play a couple rounds of pool... I was of course kilted.

As I stepped into the bar and looked around for the pool tables, a couple of older guys at the bar who had clearly been there since getting off work a couple of hours ago looked over and began laughing out loud... Then my wife, who had been dumping her purse in the trunk, finally got inside, walked over and gave me kiss... The sight of a hot woman flocking to me stifled that laughter...

Guys use ridicule and disapproval to keep the status quo, which a kilt is not, but women love the damn things, and guys are always intimidated by someone with more prowess with the fairer gender... so just be content with the fact that you'll end up winning in the end...