Why should I wear a kilt?

[thescot]

That is a kind thought----I think----AA! I can only wonder whether the New World is ready for Old Jock? On the other hand. Is Old Jock ready for the New World? One day perhaps, I will blow the dust off a suitcase and pop accross and see you all. We shall have to see.

If you do that, you must come to Atlanta. We'll show you the town--at least the parts we think are worth seeing--and I will personally buy your first whisky.

BTW--what you say sounds like a line from Tunes of Glory! I doubt that Old Jock--or Old Jim--is ready for the new world (in the metaphorical sense rather than the geographical).

And I don't plan on doing anything to make myself fit into it, either.

[thescot]

. . . It also surprises me that so many of our rabble here are not aware of the fact that people normally don't like the kilt, and that most women are not the least bit attracted to A man in one. . .

You must be hanging out in strange places. I've noticed that most women assuedly do like a man in a kilt and are definitely attracted to him.

See Zarodz posts. He's killin' me with those pictures.

[wildrover]

Nice catch, Zardoz!

[Bigkahuna]

Brave, interesting men wear kilts. Men who worry about what people will think of them, wear something else.

[wildrover]

Brave, interesting men wear kilts. Men who worry about what people will think of them, wear something else.

I'll drink to that, and raise a glass in charity and hope for the eventual freedom of my Docker & golf-shirt-clad brethren.

[Zardoz]

It also surprises me that so many of our rabble here are not aware of the fact that people normally don't like the kilt, and that most women are not the least bit attracted to A man in one. " "The thing about this community is that it revolves around something so "weird" as the kilt. It is only natural for such a group to face this kind of antagonism. And it is natural for some to become disscouraged Nand need a little reassurance. But don't look to him for reassurance as to "why wear the kilt". Ask one of your kilted commrades, and we will not deny it. This is the difference between community and a "scene".

It's nice that this thread seems to have so many new posters, but kind of discouraging that some of them seem to think that wearing the kilt is somehow "weird" and disliked by so many people. Your mileage may vary, but I have to say as a pretty much full time kilt wearer this just has never been my experience!

In my , how people hereabouts react to you kilted has a lot to do who you are. If you are an older, venerable looking type like Hamish, you are treated one way and if you're a younger, hip-looking, iconoclastic type you are going to get treated differently. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise to any of us. It's one thing to be a kilted guy among a thousand other kilted guys at a Highland Games and quite another to be the only. lone, solitary formally kilted dude at a big formal event. I've been that solitary kiltie at the formal and you'd be surprised how many people who were well educated and fancied themselves so very, very cosmopolitan were provocative and rude to me about my choice of wardrobe. You also have to accept the fact that if you wear your kilt into a "Celtic Pub" type of joint you're going to get one kind of reaction but if you wear it into some other "ethnic" shot and a beer joint, you'd better be the biggest guy in the joint AA

While AA is not a new poster, and I'm not picking on him, I have to gripe at this post a little too. I am not "hip" or "venerable looking" I'm an average old bald dude, I am almost always the "solitary kiltie" at most events I might go to, even in the "Celtic Pubs" I frequent. I have worn the kilt to all manner of events, formal and otherwise, from weddings to funerals, from cocktail parties with politicians to tea party tax protests, from car shows to gun shows, from hikes to criuises, from rock concerts to house parties, from the Tilted Kilt to the topless club, from Irish Pub to biker bar, from the Houston Rodeo to the Sci-Fi Con..... you get the idea!

And after a few years of this, I can count on one hand the number of times I have had a really rude or nasty encounter with anyone! I guess I'm just doing it right? Yeah, there might be a little ribbing from friends or dumb comments easily delt with, but my experience has always been 99% positive, maybe 99.9% with the ladies!

The kilt is a garment, not a "weird", new or provocative garment, it is an old form of mens' clothing. I don't wear it to be noticed, but people do notice it, usually in a positive way. Here's a different angle; If you wore a nice taliored black suit to a cocktail party, nobody would really notice. If you wore the same suit, only it was Red, then people would notice! and likely question or at least comment. This is where YOU come in, are you wearing the red suit, or is it wearing you? How you present and handle yourself will control how others respond. If you are that "lone kiltie" and you're signaling "Hi, I'm glad to be here, but I'm sorry I'm dressed 'different'" then playground rules apply and you are at the disadvantage, you'll just be "that guy in the kilt". But, if you signal "Hi, I'm glad to be here, and I'm glad you're interested in my outfit" well, you might be the "interesting guy" at that party! At least among the folks that matter!

[Tiny]

I was asked once by a friend why I was wearing a kilt. I told him he would see once we got to the pub. Once there i had 2 beers bought for me by different people and had several women come over and strike up conversation with me. He made note that litterally everyone in the bar checked me out anywhere i was in the pub. later in the evening as the beer had done its work "the question" was thrown around a few times and he enjoyed the responses I gave.

[KiltShot]

Brave, interesting men wear kilts. Men who worry about what people will think of them, wear something else.

That sums up how I feel perfectly. Excellent.

[ccga3359]

Because England's National costumes are not to my taste:

[Jack Daw]

See Zarodz posts. He's killin' me with those pictures.

I think they are cardboard cut-outs.