Another great thread coming on!
My story starts a little different. The oral family history has always had my Great-Great Grandmother coming over from Scotland pregnant. This did not mean a lot to me until a couple of years ago when the wife and I traveled to Scotland. During our time there, we had a stop at Gretna and, surprise, there was a wedding going on. The wife turned to me and said "I think you would look great in a kilt!"
During our stay in Edinburgh, we walked up and down the royal mile, stopping in various shops and looking at their wares. Still unconvinced that I wanted to be kilted, the wife bought me a book titled "So You're Going to Wear the Kilt! and that was the end of the purchases for that trip.
Fast forward a couple of years and many hours of reading and researching (including joining this site) and I bought a Stillwater standard Black Stewart to see if wearing the kilt was for me. My first outing was to a Christmas party for our church. As the sky did not cave in on me and I got a number of 'interesting' reactions (not to mention how comfortable it was) I got hooked. That same evening, on the drive home, my wife informed me that I was going to purchase a wool kilt in the surname tartan and she was going to pay for it. She said that she really liked the look and that no man looks bad in a kilt..
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