How old were you when you first wore a kilt?

**ThistleDown** · 3rd January 10, 06:36 PM

Five, in preparation for school a few months later -- and that's a photo no-one else will ever see!

**piperdbh** · 3rd January 10, 06:49 PM

17, I think. I was learning the 'pipes and my aunt found a second-hand Graham of Mentieth for me. I played my brother's wedding in April '95 and with my high school band ("Amazing Grace", of course) later that spring. Since then I've gained three more kilts, all made by Matt Newsome.

I still have the Graham, which is for sale. The others three will stay with me a gey lang wheel.

**Hothir Ethelnor** · 3rd January 10, 08:30 PM

I was 10 or 11 It would have been a costume "kilt"

four years ago I thought I'd make a "proper" kilt and looked for instructions online. I made the equivalent of a 5 yard casual kilt in a cotton tartan (Black Watch) I spent too many hours pressing it (before every time I wore it...) I decided that was it and went out and bought some wool.

I made a nice 6 yarder with a solid green fabric and wore that up until a few months ago.

I now have a few modern styled kilts and a PV 8 yarder in the Maple leaf Tartan and a 4 yard box pleat in Black Watch. Beyond that there's some Gordon regimental fabric waiting and some Isle of Skye on order... (this will stop eventually right?)

**Standard** · 3rd January 10, 08:41 PM

I got my first kilt when I was 42. I'd been wanting one for quite a while to honour my Scottish ancestors. That was 2 years ago. I now have 2 kilts and have sent tartan to Barb Tewksbury for a third. My only regret is in not having taken up the kilt years ago when I first began thinking of getting one.

**Macleod91** · 3rd January 10, 10:10 PM

I was sixteen when i purchased my first kilt and wore it to the homecoming dance at my school. but even when i was a little kid I wanted a kilt, just couldn't afford one

**David Dubh** · 3rd January 10, 10:19 PM

I was probably about 4 or 5 my granny sent me one. I was 11 when I got my next one

**KiltedDawg** · 3rd January 10, 10:38 PM

Twenty years ago as a first year student at St. Andrews. I hired an outfit for the rugby club formal, which turned out to be an Anderson tartan, and never looked back. I ordered a family tartan soon thereafter.

**Chainsaw02** · 3rd January 10, 10:45 PM

After attending the Stone Muntain Highland Games in 2001 and meeting my clan chief for the first time I just had to be kilted like everone else. So I ordered a Sportkilt (all I could afford at the time) in a "tablecloth tartan", began wearing it arnd never looked back. I make my own "tanks" and now have three of those plus numerious others. Oh, I was 60 years old in 2002.

Larry Dir

**St. Amish** · 3rd January 10, 10:48 PM

I HAD a kilt when I was younger. i think I wore it once to school for a "roots" project. Don't know where it ended up. Lost somewhere during many moves.

My first adult kilt experience came a few (or five) years ago when I took my 5 year old son to the Scottish gathering and games in Pleasanton. He had never seen a kilt before, and immediately asked, "What's that?" I explained, and his next question was, "Where's mine?" I couldn't have my son looking sharper than his old man, so I ended up buying two kilts that day.