Why should I wear a kilt?

[Monkey@Arms]

I have a similar problem, 60 year old male I have decided I want to wear a kilt. My wife and grown children act like dad has lost it.
First Questions ? Were would you wear it? "Church" (not with me) "Parties" ( I don't think so!) "Out walking" (HaHa!) I need some good replies for this group of nae sayers on kilts.
I have tried the old favorite "Because I want one." with not much success. I have the heritage and linage to wear one but that doesn't cut much slack either. Suggestions PLEASE

Not an uncommon problem, a lot of us have been there. Time and patience help. You might get more responses if you start a new thread rather than tacking your question at the end of one as large (and controversial) as this.

In the meanwhile you can read the responses to a similar question here:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/m...highlight=wife

Best regards,

Jake


P.S. I'd say welcome to the forum, but I just realized you've been a member for longer than me! Talk about jonesing. Time to get off your duff and strap on kilt. None of us are getting any younger!

[Dirka Skene]

Thus, I am here asking you all - why do people wear kilts? Is it a trend, a way to pull in fine women () or...

Because women think they're sexy.

[triolamj]

To celebrate my breaking the 100-post mark, I'm adding my 2 cents worth.

I decided to get the tartan for my first kilt because I like the comfortable sarongs that we wore on the Hash House Harriers drinking club.

I finally got my first kilt made 10 years later because I was volunteering at the Houston Highland Games children's athetics and thought I should set an example by wearing one.

I wore it to Burns Nights because I really, really like haggis and it was a way to show respect to my hosts. I wear it now on New Year's Eve (Hogmanay) for the same reason.

I bought my second kilt so that I could be comfortable in the heat at the Games while I worked.

I bought my third kilt because I could get it in a beautiful Irish tartan to represent my mother's ancestry and march behind the pipers on St. Patrick's Day.

And lastly: I don't wear it to attract the ladies; I wear it to attract the right lady. The lady who likes her man to dress up once or twice a year (New Year's and Burns Night), appreciates his family history, volunteers his time to worthy causes, and is a little bit different from the next guy. If she likes craic and Celtic music, all to the better. But best of all is if she doesn't wonder why I wear a kilt, but just enjoys the way I look in it.

Slainte!

[Packhound]

And lastly: I don't wear it to attract the ladies; I wear it to attract the right lady. The lady who likes her man to dress up once or twice a year (New Year's and Burns Night), appreciates his family history, volunteers his time to worthy causes, and is a little bit different from the next guy. If she likes craic and Celtic music, all to the better. But best of all is if she doesn't wonder why I wear a kilt, but just enjoys the way I look in it.

Slainte!

For me that about sums it up. Although I may have begun my interest in the kilt for other reasons, my bride's reaction to seeing me dressed up in something more than jeans or khaki p##nts has turned out to be the best reason. She enjoys the fact that her man looks good.

[NewGuise]

I have a similar problem, 60 year old male I have decided I want to wear a kilt. My wife and grown children act like dad has lost it.
First Questions ? Were would you wear it? "Church" (not with me) "Parties" ( I don't think so!) "Out walking" (HaHa!) I need some good replies for this group of nae sayers on kilts.
I have tried the old favorite "Because I want one." with not much success. I have the heritage and linage to wear one but that doesn't cut much slack either. Suggestions PLEASE

Just do it. Get a good, handmade kilt - not necessarily an 8-yard 'tank' since those are both expensive and likely a little warm for Texas, but a 5-yard knife-pleated or 4-yard box-pleated tartan to which you feel you can lay some claim through said heritage and lineage - and wear it. Because it was an investment, you will feel obliged to keep wearing it, despite the few naysayers; the positive comments will likely silence them in any case.

If you go to a church that includes others of Scots background, you should definitely wear it to services; the reactions will be excellent - believe me. In any case, wear it on long walks alone. Wear it grocery shopping. Wear it because you want to.

But you can tell those nervous family members that you were forced into this bizarre behavior by a bunch of anonymous online kiltwearers ...