Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
Tell the seventeen year old to get over it and get that kilt on. I have a similar problem with my twenty year old son who not only thinks that I'm mashugana for wearing the kilt but has also gone on his Facebook page and done a couple of rants about what a doofus his old man is for doint the kilt thing. I will be getting my own Facebook page and going on about every dumbass thing that he did growing up...do you think that he'll "friend" me?

BUT...there is a young fella at my daughter's high school who wears the kilt and is held in absolute awe by all who behold him. I met his parents at a school function and the story is that they went to Scotland and the kid was SO impressed that he demanded that they get him a kilt while they were there...I think that they got a family tartan (Dad's of Scottish extraction and mom's Jewish...so this kid really does have some serious stones to get into the kilt, eh?). Anyway...if anybody gives him any guff, he just toughs it out and that has enhanced his reputation as a totally cool individual. I often go to school functions in full kilted regalia but haven't run into the young fella yet. My daughter often wears one of her kilts to school as well...in her own rather "punk" style...but she does wear tartan rather than a simple black one, so she's got that goin' for her.

C'Mon, young man! Push the outside of the high school fashion envelope! Celebrate the heritage!

Glad that the young 'un is getting into the spirit, though!

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PM me his facebook addy and i'll rant back at him, I've already got a page.