Topless Kilting

[Spartan]

He is weareing that kilt just a little low isnt he?

It's still at the knee! He must have very long legs, or the kilt is very short! LOL

[Kid Cossack]

I'll play.



That's me, taken yesterday, after I got back from the park where I walked three miles with a medicine ball named Genghis. (There's an outdoor shower where I hosed off, which is why the kilt is wet.)

Mostly I go topless not to show off (heaven forfend! I've still a long, long way to go) but to expose myself to the sun. I've almost never had a good tan, except the farmer tan I had during boot camp. As I read more and more about the importance of Vitamin D to good basic health, and about the chronic levels of deficiency in most Americans of Vitamin D, I start to think that maybe getting some sun is a good thing.

I'll freely admit that I'm more comfortable going topless now that I've lost about forty pounds so far this year, but I would go topless from time to time, in the right places, with the right people, even when I was fatter than ol' Saint Nick. Part of it had to do with the ownership of the self. "This is me, this is who I am." If I'm proud of it, that's well and good. If I'm ashamed of it, then I'm ashamed of me, ashamed of who I am, and I should come to terms with that.

I ain't no raving beauty, and I've known that for a long time. But I am me, just me, all me, the me that no one else is, that no one else can, could or will ever be.

I've been getting about an hour of sun each day, and combined with the other changes I'm making in my life, I've never felt better. My freckles are still freckly, I haven't burned at all.

The only downside to this adventure I'm on is that I'm shrinking out of my kilts. The kilt in the pic is one of my all time favorites, a Pittsburgh Kilts poly-cotton in the USMC desert digital pattern. (MY clan colors, ooh-rah, and all that nonsense.) It's just about too big on me now, and the underapron pocket is now over near my left thigh.

I go topless at the park all the time. I wear shirts otherwise. (Well, yard work, hiking, the usual type of exceptions.) I'm not fool enough to pretend that the way I do things is right for anyone else, I'm not even entirely sure the way I do things is right for me, but that's my belief. If someone has a different take on things, I'm entirely cool with that.

PS I'm wearing my Vibram Five Fingers----and if you think the kilt draws comments, try wearing "gloves for your feet."

[Jon1975]

it's getting increasingly difficult to view this thread without risking my husband making comments....

Haha!

[SteveB]

OK, so I have Irish skin. Whiter than white that only burns at the slightest exposure to sun. Today i made the mistake of going outside with 70% cloud cover and trimming the weed patch around my mother-in-laws summer cottage. Utilikilt, T shirt, gloves, boots, with turned down hose. My neck, lower arms, and shins are sounding a four alarm fire. I can not sleep, so I am reading and posting here on X-marks. Kilted and shirtless, only out of the shower in a thrifty to the bedroom to get dressed. Outside is always a long sleeved shirt, unless I choose to really burn up bad.
I envy those that can expose some skin to that hot orb..I am not one of them.

Slainte

[jgcunningham]

I just want to ask that everyone be very mindful when going out in the sun. I have to see a dermatologist twice a year. It's not really fun when he says, "You're going to leave that mole with me so I can look closer at it." He's taken off three so far. Luckily only one was close to being melanoma. I have several of the pre-conditions for skin cancer: blue eyes, several sunburns as a kid, lots of moles, etc. Now I follow what the Aussies say: Slip, Slap, Slop. Slip on a shirt, slap on a hat, and slop on some sunscreen. You would be wise to do the same.

[Lady M]

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