Had an interesting few days.

[staticsan]

I've just had a few days of kiltedness and it was definitely a learning experience.

First was just another day at work. I go kilted most Friday's, now, and my colleagues are more than fine with it. But last Friday, I met my sister in town after work and we saw "Avenue Q". Putting aside the show (which was really good), my sister said on the night that I was upstaging her - not with rancour, or anything, it was just an observation. She later said that there was a group of gay guys admiring it from afar. :-)

Today, after some deliberation, I put a kilt on again. It turned out this was a good move because it helped support my aching back. But my sister and I later went shopping at Sydney's only Ikea store. Being a public holiday, the place was packed. This time, she called the experience intimidating. I was blissfully unaware of other males eyeing up why she was in the company of a kilted male...

I guess I've gotten used to ignoring this. Or maybe I've never really noticed it in the first place. Then, too, she has been a little critical of it, though she's happy to let me wear it in public with her (unlike my brother who does not like it). So perhaps she might be being a little sensitive.

Then, too, this is Australia where I've found people are much less forthcoming about a kilt than in the US.

Wade.

[Stratherrick]

Wade

Aye, it's often a fine line we tread with our nearest and dearest. Things are different if you have a supportive 'other half', but I can see how a sister might feel put out.

Keep on kilting, though!

Slainte

Bruce

[McFarkus]

It's great you've got someone who is supportive.

[The Monk]

Support is everything. My wife likes me in a kilt and says that I have great "kilt legs".

After that, who cares about anyone else's opinion?

[csbdr]

My wife is supportive as well, but gets rankled at all the female attention I get.

[staticsan]

Y'all missing the point. :-)

My sister's "support" comes, in part, from the attitude "You're an adult and you can wear what you like", although I know that that would stop at certain other garments I've been known to wear. The two events I described were really the first time she's been with me in a crowd whilst I was kilted.

I've become familiar being confident amongst strangers as if someone has a problem, it is definitely their problem, not mine. But being kilted in a group that isn't and out amongst lots of strangers means that reactions to the kilt are now going to be directed to everyone who is with me.

There have been posts before about wives and girlfriends noting unusual attention from those around, because they're with a kilted guy. But my sister didn't notice womanly attention: she noticed all the guys who were uncomfortable seeing a kilt in public. :-) This is what she saw as 'initimidating'.

Wade.