Any suggestions for wearing a kilt in public for the first time?

**uncle remus** · 24th July 16, 04:54 AM

my advice is to treat your kilt like pants for the first outing. wear it to dinner with the wife or girlfriend. My first time I went shopping with my wife and mother to arizona mills mall. about 2 hours from tucson. it was a very enjoyable drive and a very comfortable day. the only comment I received was when the two ladies were in a womans clothing store and I was holding clothing my wife was going to buy. it shocked the clerk that I was a man. we still laugh about it today. just do it and enjoy it.

**slothead** · 24th July 16, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by uncle remus

my advice is to treat your kilt like pants for the first outing. wear it to dinner with the wife or girlfriend. My first time I went shopping with my wife and mother to arizona mills mall. about 2 hours from tucson. it was a very enjoyable drive and a very comfortable day. the only comment I received was when the two ladies were in a womans clothing store and I was holding clothing my wife was going to buy. it shocked the clerk that I was a man. we still laugh about it today. just do it and enjoy it.

On that topic, I am curious about how many folks spend the day kilted and seated. I have considered going to work kilted, but I spend almost the entire day seated studying documentation and doing computer analysis, but I seem to think that the most comfortable wear of the kilt is while standing. I may opt for one of those standing display stands that some of the folks in our company have (but there are unrelated challenges with that too). Anyway do some folks wear the kilt when they have to be seated for long periods of time?

**uncle remus** · 24th July 16, 05:56 AM

tom go to the following link and watch the video on sitting in a kilt. there is also advice on this site on getting in and out of a car. outside of a different technique for getting seated and not exposing yourself it's almost like wearing pants.

https://www.usakilts.com/information...education.html

**Jimmy the Celt** · 24th July 16, 11:16 AM

I spend more time sitting than I probably ought to! But I do so whilst kilted; it has been over a year since I've worn trousers. Personally the kilt is always the most comfortable option, so much so that I don't even bother with pajamas in the evening. I wear kilts from the moment I get out of bed until I retire for the night. There is absolutely no reason for me to wear trousers, so I don't.

**Profane James** · 24th July 16, 02:53 PM

Big bawbag stance...

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**7DeadlyPlatypi** · 24th July 16, 09:33 PM

I just wore my kilt in public for the first time, today. It was just a little trip down to the gas station, around 9:45 on a Sunday night. I knew there wouldn't be many people there, at such an odd hour, so I felt no anxiety at all.

When I got there, the place was empty. After I went in and purchased a few items, and prepaid for my gasoline, a few more cars had pulled in. Two were driven by females, one by an older gent. Of the three, the man was the only one who stared. I don't think there was an malice in it...he was simply trying to decide if he had actually seen what he thought he'd seen. One of the ladies didn't even glance my way, but the other did a slow triple take. She was clearly interested, but was attempting to be more sneaky or more polite about it than the gentleman had been.

In any event, it was a good way to dip my toes in the public-kilt-wearing pool. I'd suggest doing the same for anyone who's looking to wear one in public for the first time. Just get out and do it, but choose a place where you know there will only be a few people. It's less intimidating, in my estimation.

**Alan H** · 1st August 16, 01:37 PM

Honestly, if you're just extremely worried about what other people will think of you in your kilt...

...if you would opt to NOT wear a kilt because one or two people might look at you funny, or there might possibly be a distant chance of someone saying something awkward....

..if you're just extremely concerned about what your wife or girlfriend or boyfriend or child or aunt or grandmother or the cute girls at the newstand are going to say about your kilt, to the point of worrying yourself about it and planning at great length on how to wear it without too many people actually seeing you in it...

...then maybe y'all should just belt on a pair of pants and go about your business. Kilts are great, but they're not worth that sort of stress. The thing is just a piece of clothing.

**jumary** · 1st August 16, 04:27 PM

Being very new to kilts, I do understand wondering how people might react. However, it really is just an item of clothing. I recently wore my kilt and argyle jacket to a formal dinner on a cruise, and it was a pleasant non event. A few compliments and a few more stares from teenage lads, and that was it. I enjoyed myself. If anything, it was good for my wife, as she saw that she could be out with me while kilted and it would not attract much attention.

**trebor** · 1st August 16, 04:51 PM

I still have had close to zero comments except from family. That was with me walking in NYC for a day, DC for a few days, having a girl-scout camping trip with parents, having a boy scout camping trip with parents, taking my kid's friend and my family to the aquarium and meeting his mother, and being with my mother and father. My mother asked about it. My father may not even have noticed it. My kids mentioned it but don't seem to care. I put a post on my Facebook feed and it only got a few comments, none of them negative.

BTW, I can't say my two are more comfortable than shorts. In several ways they are less comfortable, which would explain why my wife is never in a skirt. But at least I know for a fact that I will wear it when I want, and if I don't, it is not because I am afraid.

**tpa** · 2nd August 16, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by trebor

BTW, I can't say my two are more comfortable than shorts. In several ways they are less comfortable, which would explain why my wife is never in a skirt. But at least I know for a fact that I will wear it when I want, and if I don't, it is not because I am afraid.

I've been wearing casual kilts for so long now, I feel uncomfortable in trousers. I do however wear them quite low on my waist, (they are shortened to allow for this). Traditional kilts with a 2" rise can, for me, be uncomfortable when bending over a lot.