Out in Public

[Chase]

I think I was fortunate...The first time I wore my Scottish National, I was attending a New Years Eve party on a cruise ship from Galveston, Texas to Cozumal, Mexico...I received lots of looks, stares, and compliments, but most interesting was the question, "What are you wearing underneath?"...I said "On a good day...........Lipstick" I saw that answer posted on "Real Men Where Kilts" and borrowed it for the moment.

I will send a picture as soon as I figure out how to upload one???

Chase

[McMurdo]

Chase check out the following link on how to post photos

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=12013

[Riverkilt]

Ain't it fun!?

Sounds like you have the huevos to stand tall when kilted. Enjoy the adventure.

And, hate to tell you this but you REEK of a kilt addict and I don't venture it'll be long before you're galavanting about NW Ohio in a hand sewn traditional 8 yard kilt and purposly putting a little extra kilt swish in your step when you get "the look."

Ron

[Archangel]

Following the Goth tone for a moment...
my daughter realized that one of the things she likes about me wearing a kilt with her is that she gets a rest from people staring at her.

Oh, yeah, you'll love wearing the kilt once you get more familiar with it. On my wedding anniversary we walked the beach, me in my kilt, changed shirts and went to one of the fanciest restaurants, and I was thinking of changing shirts again to go to my son-in-law's Goth band show except, of course, it was my 30th anniversary.

[ncof300d]

And, hate to tell you this but you REEK of a kilt addict
Ron

Call me a 'kilt horse'

I received my Stillwater Economy in the MacKenzie tartan. It is great. I am now looking for my next one. I thing that for #3 I might wait a little and spend the money for a nice wool kilt. I am really stuck on the blue in tartan on the front of a Saltire kilt.
By the way on a Saltire kilt is the entire tartan referred to as Saltire?

[Tattoo Bradley]

It's all easy street from here buddy! Wait till you have someone almost (or actually) run into something with their shopping cart because they're staring at you.

[Q-Tip]

Well I had something really wierd this weekend to; I went to a music festival here in the Netherlands, there I was watching one of the bands kilted of course and some guy comes up with a really cheap dodgey looking kilt and said 'Wow man at last a guy in a real kilt!'. He then proceeded to compare his pleats with mine..I didn't comment that he in fact should have the pleats to the back anyhow.. and with that said his goodbyes and toddeled off the next day I saw him again only this time jeans!!

But the other thing was I had absolutly no comments or stares until later on during the day after large amounts of acohol were consumed!! And only by women!.
out of about 300,000 people 3 comments! 2 were just giggling and making remarks about my legs and other things under my kilt! the other said wow a real scotsman! that was nice or course becasue I am actually english ;)

Im not to sure what remarks the one guy had walking around in a full length black denim skirt tight leather muscle tee shirt and these really wierd sunglass that fix on the top of your head and make you look like a martian.

But, i guess he didnt care !!

[Don Patrick]

I've not worn a kilt, but image that my day will be coming.

[SoldierSpike]

<snip>Some times I could hardly keep from laughing at seeing people walk by me. <snip>

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.

Marc

[majdan]

I went to downtown Salem, OR on Monday afternoon in a kilt for the first time. As soon as I was done with the final out processing brief it was off with the ACUs and into my SWK Nightstalker. I figured that all of my comrades at arms had heard my decry the unmanly dress of the lowlander for low these many month that I needed to walk the walk because I had beening talking the talk. I needed a kilt pen so I went to a shop in the Reed Opera House downtown. I had about a 4 block walk from where I parked. One thing that I noticed it that I tend to walk with better posture when I'm wearing a kilt, which makes me taller. Well I was wearing a dark dress shirt, my nightstalker kilt, belt and sporran. I looked pretty sharp and I knew it. I had a swagger in my walk. I've been told that I normally have a rather aggressive expression on my face so with that, the swagger and the knife stuck in my sock I don't think that any on the local street rats really wanted to pester me. Someone let out a wolf whistle but I really could tell who it was of really who they were whistling at. Neither the folks at the kilt shop or at the tattoo parlor where I stopped to get a price on getting my clan crest tattooed on my deltoid seemed to think that there was the slightest thing wrong in the way I was dressed. The only comment I've received has been a woman saying that it was great to see someone showing pride in their heritage.