This is what we have learned,.....

[James MacMillan]

OK – Just to add some fodder to the thread, here are some of the things that I have learned in the years that I have been a full timer:

The vast majority of people that I run into have a positive reaction to the kilt.

Negative reactions seem to come from young people who are trying to show off, or from old people who have incorrect stereo types formed in their minds.

It’s always good to know the tartan that you are wearing, but if a little old lady insists that you are wearing the MacWachamacallit clan tartan, don’t argue, she knows that she is right!

I have had more compliments from ladies than from women. More than I ever had when wearing pants!

Be always ready to tell people where they can buy a kilt. Also be ready to tell them the difference between a tank (our word) and a SWK thrifty.

Sure it’s a skirt, who cares what you call it?

Two kilted guys can talk for many minutes about the colors of shirts and hose and flashes that they wear with a particular tartan than any guy in pants could discuss about his jeans and t-shirt!

I have never been accused of cross-dressing, and in my experience there are no more gay gents in kilts than the straight ones.

Kilt appreciation knows no age limit!

Kilts are great conversation starters… Even old fat guys can get propositioned when he is wearing a kilt!

I guess there is a limit to how many kilts are too many, but I haven’t yet reached that limit!

Almost any sport jacket or suit coat can be converted to a kilt jacket.

I have yet to find a social occasion where the properly worn kilt is wrong….. Funerals, weddings, church, soft-ball, boating, BBQ’s, gardening, school, hooky… everything has a kilt that works (for me!)

Having a brown sporran to go with your brown shoes expands your wardrobe.

Kilted guys appreciate a good leather belt or a good sock knife more that the pants crowd!

A solid black kilt does go with a Hawaiian shirt!

A Hawaiian shirt does not go with the Buchanan or Macleod tartan, regardless what anyone says.

A wool tank is not too hot for Southern California, but a lightweight casual 5 yarder is better.

I don't think I ever will wear pants again..... and a sport kilt is perfect for the swimming pool!

[Coinneach]

I like it enough to find ways of wearing it everywhere. My local pub now refers to me as the "guy that wears the kilt."

[Inflated Ego]I love being my college's official "kilt guy"

Locally I'm also "the guy in the kilt".

Sometime last weekend I ended up in my favorite pub and sat in my usual stool at the bar. A few seats away a woman I barely recognize says, "hey, you wearing your kilt?" and the guy next to her looks at me and says, "oh..you're THAT guy!".

[Big Homestead]

Sometime last weekend I ended up in my favorite pub and sat in my usual stool at the bar. A few seats away a woman I barely recognize says, "hey, you wearing your kilt?" and the guy next to her looks at me and says, "oh..you're THAT guy!".

hahahaha, now thats awesome!

[Coemgen]

A Hawaiian shirt does not go with the Buchanan or Macleod tartan, regardless what anyone says.

Of course they do! And I have the pictures to prove it!