Does your demeanor change when kilted?

[Jack Daw]

I hear what your saying, Kilty. Last week, I went to a happy hour birthday party at a pub dressed right after work in my suit and it just wasn't the same without my kilt. I was a bit bored, wishing I was wearing it. My pride and demeanor improve quite a bit when I don the kilt.

[Captain Karrot]

I stand out in any crowd because I am tall. I guess that standing out is part of my persona and the kilt just makes me stand out more. The kilt is an eye catcher and I like how it brings out the extraverts in others. I like meeting people and getting complements, makes me feel good like a king or maybe a Rooster!

I am right there with ya, Wally! While not as tall as you, I am 6'3", and with the spikey red hair, I already stand out in a crowd. Throwing the kilt on, I know it will add more attention. Knowing I will get more attention, I tend to stand taller, and walk more proudly. And as ya said, getting compliments is good! I mean, how can you be humble when some attractive lady at the basketball game I went to hollers across the walkway "You're hot! You're hot!"

[Howard Clark]

I think in the US you had better stand tall and be confident whilst wearing the kilt. It saves a good bit of trouble, if nothing else.

For me it isn't that I am different because of the kilt, so much as if I am not feeling like dealing with the standing out in the crowd part, I don't wear it to go out. But I spend probably 95% of my time at home either in the shop making swords working in a kilt, or in the house, also in a kilt, unless the weather prohibits, which is seldom.

[vmac3205]

I notice that Captmac definately has a swagger when he is kilted. All in all, not a bad thing.

[Riverkilt]

Its not a great pic, but it sure captures the swish of my USA Kilts semi-trad in MacLean Hunting tartan. When I wear this tartan I'm VERY aware that it is also Sir Sean Connery's tartan and I endeavor to wear it with similar bearing.

Most of my tartan kilts have a personal meaning for me, either a family clan or honoring family service. Can't help but feel some pride and stand a bit taller in them.

Joy is the main feeling I have when kilted. Perhaps because my manhood is FREE to be as Creator intended while still safe from arrest. I am a MAN! And, I feel more MANLY when the main body parts that define my MASCULINITY are FREE.

I also feel that I'm carrying a message of FREEDOM to other men - just as the message was carried to me by the guy wearing the first Utilikilt I ever saw that hooked me. Its okay to be FREE. Its okay to wear a "skirt/kilt."

The kilt is a MAN'S garment. Let the testosterone flow! JOY, JOY, JOY!!

Ron

[Dan R Porter]

Maybe because I am fairly new to the kilt, I change in one odd way.

My wife would describe me as cockey, tough "acting", and very quiet.

When I put on the kilt I think and prepare myself for a few things.

I remember to have a sense of humor, that children are going to stare, giggle, and ask questions, so I remember to smile, and laugh with them.

I remeber to smile, smile, and smile. I try to be more approachable in a kilt, I feel somewhat obligated to give kilts and wearers of the kilt a positive look and a positive memory.

So Oddly enough the kilt humbles me, and causes me to open a little more then I would in....pants.

[GMan]

I stand taller, walk taller, and seem to be prouder. Yes wearing a Kilt makes me see things with much more respect.

[Panache]

I think in the US you had better stand tall and be confident whilst wearing the kilt.

I think that this advice holds for any attire a gentleman might wear.

Cheers

Jamie

[The Barry]

I too, gain a great degree of swagger when wearing the kilt.

I do not believe that it has anything to do with history, but perhaps. I've resigned to the possibility that it's mostly due to the very different way all of the bonnie lasses eyeball me when I'm in my kilt. Especially the fair-skinned, tall redheaded variety of bonnie lass!

But that begs the question: Is there any other true variety of bonnie lass?

[Nighthawk]

Particularly when I am out in public, I tend to be a bit more forceful in my gait and posture. My wife calls it my "kilted swagger". I think it comes from two sources. One, here in the USA, a man in a kilt draws more attention. Knowing this, I don't feel I can slouch along. Two, (and I believe this because my wife has told me), I look d@mn fine in a kilt! If one is going to stand out from the crowd, one should stand tall!

Geoff Withnell

At the St Patrick's Day parade last weekend, I overheard a woman say "Look at how good that guy looks in his kilt! You should have worn yours!" I turned around and said "Yes I do, and yes you should have!" There's your swagger and extra foot of height, my friends.

Oh, and the fact that I feel like a part of my family legacy doesn't hurt any either.

I too, gain a great degree of swagger when wearing the kilt.

I do not believe that it has anything to do with history, but perhaps. I've resigned to the possibility that it's mostly due to the very different way all of the bonnie lasses eyeball me when I'm in my kilt. Especially the fair-skinned, tall redheaded variety of bonnie lass!

But that begs the question: Is there any other true variety of bonnie lass?

The tatooed blond variety are rather bonnie, as well. But generally, I would say no. Redheads with freckles and fair skin are the bonniest of all.