Took the plunge...

**Livingston** · 25th April 08, 10:23 AM

We do have help for you with your kilt addition in our 12 step program:

Step 1. Buy kilts.
Step 2. Buy Hose.
Step 3. Buy flashes.
Step 4. Buy sporrans.
Step 5. Buy kilt pins.
Step 6. Buy fly plaids.
Step 7. Buy jackets.
Step 8. Buy sgian dubhs.
Step 9. Buy shoes.
Step 10. Learn to make kilts.
Step 11. Hang out on X-Marks.
Step 12. Repeat as necessary and have a good time with friends and family.

**brendillon** · 25th April 08, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Cincinatti...conservative????

Is that not the home of Weideman's Beer and their wild commercials...it was in the 60s...

Perhaps a population transplant happened sometime over the last 40 years...I just can't keep up anymore.

I'm with your other feedback. Art school...you're gonna be the bomb (do they still say that in Cincinnati?)

Don't know what sort of art you do, but take a look at the Utilikilt workman's too. A great kilt for artists. Okay to get "stuff" on it.

Ron

Compared to some areas of the midwest (Cincinnatians generally consider themselves midwesterners) Cinci probably is fairly liberal.
For someone like myself for whom Cincinnati is a Grad School pit stop between Boston, MA and Boulder, CO, it's pretty conservative.
I'm also in the architecture department of the art school, which is more conservative typically than other departments in the school.
I like the look of the Utilikilt a lot, I just can't justify the expense for my first kilt.

**646guy** · 25th April 08, 02:33 PM

Addiction is an understatement....congrats on the first kilt. You'll soon want another about an hour after you leave your home and get all the compliments.

**Raphael** · 25th April 08, 03:42 PM

Your Blackwatch from Stillwater will become an everyday kilt because you are going to get another one.

For your benefit, learn about the Blackwatch and know who they are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch

**Ancienne Alliance** · 26th April 08, 07:34 AM

Don't worry ! Just let things happen !

**Standard** · 26th April 08, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by brendillon

Ok, maybe it's more like 'wading in' rather than a 'plunge' but I just bought my first kilt... A Blackwatch from Stillwaters... cheap, because I'm not 100% sure what I'm getting myself into and I'm not ready for a big commitment for an everyday kilt.
*gulp*

Congrats on the new kilt. BTW there are many of us on this list who are not full time kilt wearers, so don't feel like you have to make the step into that area. Just be sure to enjoy your kilt, and wear it as much as possible.

**7 miles** · 26th April 08, 09:40 AM

I bought two standards one thrifty and five youth kilts before ever wearing them in public. Me and my family are looking forward to our first outing .It will be at our scottish games in Savannah Georgia.

**McFarkus** · 26th April 08, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by brendillon

If I went wool I was going to go with the Irish Saffron. Very nice colour and not something I saw on a lot of the other sites. But because of cost/investment I got one of the acrylics. I was tempted to get the flat black, but the Black Watch makes it a little more clear that it's a kilt as opposed to a skirt, which can be a concern when you go to an art school in a place as conservative as Cincinnati.

Maybe the saffron can be your SECOND kilt. My brother has one and it looks great. And after all having only one kilt is like trying to fly with one wing.

**Vafuth** · 26th April 08, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Livingston

We do have help for you with your kilt addition in our 12 step program:

Step 1. Buy kilts.
Step 2. Buy Hose.
Step 3. Buy flashes.
Step 4. Buy sporrans.
Step 5. Buy kilt pins.
Step 6. Buy fly plaids.
Step 7. Buy jackets.
Step 8. Buy sgian dubhs.
Step 9. Buy shoes.
Step 10. Learn to make kilts.
Step 11. Hang out on X-Marks.
Step 12. Repeat as necessary and have a good time with friends and family.

now that sounds like a good plan!!!

**brendillon** · 26th April 08, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Standard

Congrats on the new kilt. BTW there are many of us on this list who are not full time kilt wearers, so don't feel like you have to make the step into that area. Just be sure to enjoy your kilt, and wear it as much as possible.

I think I'm going to toss the kilt into my regular rotation of pants. I don't really have any special occasions for wearing one at the moment. Every day is pretty much the same, come to school and work my butt off, go home, sleep, repeat.

Here's a question though... How does one ride a bicycle whilst kilted?