Does your demeanor change when kilted?

**Nighthawk** · 19th March 09, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by 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

Well, that was graphic!!

**tulloch** · 19th March 09, 11:32 AM

When I feel I look good I feel better. When I feel better I stand straighter, walk with more of a spring in my step and have a visible smile. I just feel damn good in my kilt and it shows.

**ForresterModern** · 19th March 09, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by 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

Ron

Perhaps you should consider another kilt in the FREEDOM tartan, so you could enjoy your FREEDOM in more ways than one simultaneously.

Just make sure, if we are ever hiking together, that I am not behind or below you, otherwise my view of the scenery will not be so FREE as I might like, and my view of your FREEDOM might be more than I might like, or could stand.

jeff

**Dirk Skene** · 19th March 09, 01:02 PM

At first I may have changed a bit when kilted. But I have been kilted so long now that I don't think it makes any difference anymore.

**Declan Rowan** · 19th March 09, 02:16 PM

I get a sort of selective hearing when I wear the kilt. I always hear the positive affirmations (which, to be fair are usually shouted from across room) which gives me a sense of pride. Typically I have to be told by my fiancee or others that someone muttered something along the lines of "dude's wearing a skirt"

Best moment? Walking through the botanical garden and hearing an 8 or 9 year old boy say "He's wearing a kilt because he's from Scotland" Glad to know someone is teaching the little ones

**Jock Scot** · 19th March 09, 03:15 PM

Good gracious me!What in heavens name are you all talking about?

**Bugbear** · 19th March 09, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Good gracious me!What in heavens name are you all talking about?

I've been trying to figure that out too, Jock. I just feel like I'm wearing a kilt when I wear a kilt.

**Malcolm MacWilliam** · 19th March 09, 03:40 PM

Aye, "kilted swagger" (Withnell) and saunter definitely fit. I think mine has to do with swaggering back and forth in front of 18th century troops, as I've been a Sjt., and Sjt. Major of the British Brigade for the past 10 years. The kilt gives me a determination to my step, a sense of "getting things done", and a real sense of history as we in kilts portray the famed Blackwatch of the 18th century, esp. the Grenadier Company. It's a good feeling.....it comes out whenever I wear the kilt. And, it's not a "snotty, I"m better than you" strut....just a "strong pride" determined walk.

Malcolm MacWilliam, 42nd/77th GrenCoy
www.muskets-of-the-crown.org
ASM, British Brigade
www.britishbrigade.org

**Ryan Ross** · 19th March 09, 03:44 PM

As a 17 year old wearing a kilt for the first time, I think I gained an additional sense of security and pride. Now, I've settled into the kilt wearing habit and it's just a normal part of who I am.

...although, when I get whistles from a cute lass or three, I tend to regain that newly-kilted feeling, if only for a few seconds at a time. Feels good.