Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
Ja, habe ich sie getragen! . . .
Ich auch. I bought my first lederhose when I was an E4 in Germany. They cost about 1/3 of a month's pay but I could afford that because my pay was almost all disposable income. I liked them very much while I was in Germany, but the extra perspiration caused by American heat and humidity quickly rotted the leather.

One of my life's ironies is that seven or eight years after I got out of the Army my income was eight times as high but, because of other obligations such as student debts and mortgage payments, I really could not afford 1/3 of a month's income for a kilt. It was only a few months ago that I discovered that there are now affordable kilts available to me over the web, and that I like the kilt far more than I ever liked lederhosen.


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