"Do you wear a kilt every day?"

[KyleAisteach]

So, yesterday was my first day of instruction for the semester. I like to wear my kilt on the first day of class, partially because I believe in showing respect for the students by looking nice, and partially because it (tacitly) tells the students that they're not in Kansas any more and they're going to need to be prepared to rethink their notions of education while in my class. So by now I'm pretty used to the usual questions about kilt wearing. But yesterday, I got a new one. One student came up to me after class and asked, "Do you wear a kilt every day?"

The short answer is, "No, especially not for an 8am class." But I found the explaining the phenomenon of kilting up taking longer than pulling on a pair of pants to be quite challenging, because rationally there's not that much of a difference. I didn't want to go into kilts being less practical than pants (they are for me, because I carry a ton of stuff in my pockets thanks to the distinct lack of office space for adjuncts), because that's really just an excuse (and a man purse would solve that problem in an instant). Thinking through it with her, I settled on, "Well, this is a really cheap kilt, and it cost me $90, so I just can't afford to not wear pants most of the time."

But now I'm curious how y'all would respond to the question of why we don't wear them every day.