The Boys has the bug

[Kizmet]

My 15 year old son owns 2 kilts.

He's also a black belt in American Freestyle Martial Arts. He's 6'2". Nobody is going to bother him, he's simply too tall.

We have several young men in kilts at church. Prester John's 2 boys both wear kilts, and another kilted gent has a son with a passion for one. Another family is currently awaiting Grandma's production of three kilts for boys ages 11, 7 and 5. She's using the Ethnic Folkwear pattern to make them each one with a plaid fabric purchased locally in time for the Kirkin' o'the Tartans.

Considering the preteen jonesing going on at church, I don't think that these boys will have much of a problem once they get their kilts. They all are too excited about having them, and if anyone disses them, I expect it will be ignored.

I had expected a lot of teasing for my son, but none has developed that I've been told about. Prester John's boys seem to have no problems that I've heard about.

Long-winded to say: don't worry about it. Make sure your son wears a sporran and knows not to draw a weapon in a fight, should you give him a letter opener or an pint-sized knife. And post pics!

[herminator]

Just be glad your son has the guts!!
See here:
https://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21944

[corbinj]

My son wears kilts,16 yrs old. he hasen't had many problems. i let him wear them anywhere he feels comfortable. the one serious problem he had was minor in my eye (his mom felt differently). Iver got sucker punched at school by a guy who's girlfriend was paying too much attention to Iver. kilt on

[Panache]

My son (the Mighty Sinbad) is 6 years old and he has two kilts, a Royal Stewart Sport Kilt and a Nicolson Tartan wool blend kilt my lovely wife made for him. My wife also has actual X Marks the Scott tartan waiting to be made into his next kilt. He hasn't had a lot of teasing, but then again last year his kindergarten class was used to seeing me kilted before he started.

Cheers

[Alan]

My son (8 years old now) has been wearing kilts for about 5 years now. He wears it whenever he likes. He wore it to school one day for show and tell. When one boy asked him why he was wearing a skirt, my son informed him that it was not a skirt, it is a kilt. He wore it all day even though we sent pants with him so he could change. He was 5 years old at the time. In fact all of my kids wear kilts. We all wore them to the Atlanta zoo this past summer and along with a few strange looks we got a lot of complements. Of course with the nature of my business, all my children want to wear kilts.