Wearing trousers becomes more oppressive...

**cessna152towser** · 7th March 07, 01:21 PM

.....the less you wear trousers and the more you wear kilts. All last summer if I wasn't kilted I was wearing baggy shorts. When it got too cold for shorts late last October, I never really went back to traditional tight fitting long trousers but instead began to wear my kilts more. I've probably worn trousers about a dozen or so times in the past year, and until this morning, only once since Christmas. I had to rush to get Ann prepared for her early appointment at the diabetic clinic this morning and she suggested I might save a few minutes by going casual in trousers. Well I thought might as well give these trousers a wearing rather than hanging in the wardrobe unused. My few remaining trousers all had mud around the ankles, either from having caught on the car sills or spattered up from shoes when walking (you don't get this problem with a kilt). but having donned the best looking trousers I could find, I set out. Well almost; a minor false start when one of the belt loops snagged in the door handle on the way out of the house (funny how this never happens with kilts). I felt very self conscious going to the health centre; dressed like my wife in trousers, when I first went in it seemed everyone was staring at me, then once I settled down in the waiting room I realised there were other men there in trousers too. I had a long wait for Ann while she went through her succession of tests with the doctor and various nurses; normally if I had been kilted I'd have ventured out of the health centre for a walk, but today I dare not; how could I walk any distance when I'd forgotten whether I dressed trousers to the left or the right; trousers which would also chafe the thighs once I started walking; and people would stop me and ask where's the kilt today. During my long wait I was eaten up with unhappy memories; of wasted years as a slave to alcohol; since then I had re-invented myself and entered a much happier phase in life so why on earth was I sitting here dressed in the old order of the bad days.

It was so nice to get Ann back home from the clinic and get myself kilted up in my black heavyweight to have lunch and then go over to the court offices for a couple of hours in the afternoon to check and sign the paperwork from yesterday's court.

After my brief trousered foray the kilt seemed even more welcoming than usual and I will be in no hurry to wear trousers again.

**RockyR** · 7th March 07, 01:52 PM

Here Here.

I no longer get looks when I'm kilted. But when I'm NOT kilted, people want to stop me and ask me "Where's the Kilt today" (I occasionally wear sweatpants on cold days when I am "slumming" and just sewing with the shop closed). That gets on my nerves.

**Rigged** · 7th March 07, 01:54 PM

After my brief trousered foray the kilt seemed even more welcoming than usual and I will be in no hurry to wear trousers again.

Sounds like someone's overdue for a new kilt.

**ccga3359** · 7th March 07, 02:30 PM

Persevere, Alex, persevere! The feeling will come back, slowly at first but it will come back. the chafing, the binding, the constant need to readjust one's self. Consider these but minor hurdles on your way to complete and utter non-freedom. I feel your pain of needing to be an obedient conformist, to dress as every other does in that colourless world of "The poor trousered Sod" Alex, you have to reach deep, deep down inside to....

Oh! Er wrong forum... :crap:

What I, er, meant to say is...

What the h*** do you still have trousers in your wardrobe for? You need more kilts to purge that bifurcated, nonsensical, vile torture devices from your closet and your life! I am glad that you have learned a very important and valuable lesson today.
Swing free & stand proud my friend, my mentor, my hero.

**Kilted Archer** · 7th March 07, 06:02 PM

The last time I wore pants was at my grandmother's funeral that only then because I was forced to by my parents. Interestingly, after the funeral I was leaving with my folks and my two uncles saw me wearing one of my UKs. Both of them agreed I should've worn them because as one uncle put it, "That gathering really could've used something to liven it up." Of course I wear shorts ever day at work in the zoo because it's required as part of the uniform but when I'm feeling really "constrained" I always fondly think forward to the end of the day when I'll be free of bifurcated garments again. Pants, shorts, and all their ilk just feel so WRONG now!

**elitekiltedcommando** · 7th March 07, 06:59 PM

Indeed. I loathe my pants with a passion...

**Kilted_John** · 8th March 07, 01:37 PM

Can't stand'em myself, but I do wear'em when I have to. A kilt isn't very practical when you're crawling underneath a car, changing a transmission...

-J

**Graham** · 8th March 07, 03:55 PM

I know how you feel, I can't remember the last time I wore long trousers, I hate them.
Yesterday I had to paint a wall in the city so I threw some 'coveralls' in the truck. When I got to the site I thought 'sod it, I'm staying in my kilt' so I threw a black apron over my black hemp kilt and got on with it in comfort.

I do wonder how I would go in Scotland kilted all year round, we don't get those low temperatures here.

Rocky, the last time I put on some 'sweatpants' (we call them trackpants), a thermal kind used in hiking, my legs simply boiled!! I had to take them off in favour of the 'breeze between the knees'.

It's kilts for me, nothing but, long live kilts!