There comes a point where one has to Put Up or Shut Up, as they say. I've now reached such a crossroads and know that the only is forward. Somehow.

I received my first kilt in the mail today. Literally an hour ago. My first. I'm sure it's very nice; it's a SnowCamo from NeoKilt. However, being at work, I don't have any opportunity to try it on or even unfold it. It's kinda exciting and frightening all at once. Did I mention it is my first?

If I was still living on my own, I wouldn't have a problem: I'd put it on when I got home and go do my grocery shopping or something (I've been shopping in a skirt; there were absolutely no comments). I'd probably even wear it to work tomorrow, which involves a train journey.

But I don't live alone. I am living with my parents and my sister for a few months. A casual conversation about 6 weeks ago about being kilted showed me they would have trouble with the concept - and despite the fact of my mother's ancestry (she's a MacGregor), I know far more about kilts than she. I simply don't know what she'd say or do if I brought out a contemporay kilt!

I get up in the morning before everyone else, too, so I could even put it on i the morning, wear it all day at work - and confront them with it when I get home that evening. Hmm. Except I'm getting up late tomorrow morning, so that wouldn't work anyway. It probably wouldn't be such a good note to start the day on.

What is probably giving me the most pause is something my Dad said quietly to me the other day. Without seeking to violate the rules of the board, I wear a skirt to bed and have done for some months. I also don't usually get dressed until after breakfast. So the family has seen me skirted. Dad said he and Mum would rather they didn't see that. A kilt could be seen as inflaming the situation, see. It probably doesn't help that I've never seen anyone else in Sydney casually kilted (probably not looking in the right places, I bet).

It's kinda ironic that it was only yesterday that I were wishing it was genuinely unremarkable for guys to wear unbifucated garments. Because then I'd be in one every day.

Wade.