My wife is not on board with the whole kilt thing.

[Master K9]

Well, let me put some of you at ease. My wife does not dress me or tell me how to. Like I wrote before...way back...I'm an eccentric type of dresser, anyway. My sense of style would have been right at home in 1930's America. I regularly wear collarless barber striped shirts and button through suspender braces with my britches. My choice of headwear is an eight panel Gatsby cap or fedora. The jump to kilt wasn't sudden...I have been preparing her and my family for the event for a couple of years now. I have a good friend in KY who has been urging and encouraging me, also.

I think, as with all new things, it will just take her some time getting used too.

[English Bloke]

I wish you well.

She'll come around; if she puts up with a Gatsby cap and braces (suspenders) now, she'll be OK with the kilt eventually.

As others have suggested, take your wonderful Lady to a Highland Event and let her be with a thousand other kilties in the same afternoon. Let her talk to them and find out why they wear it... Let her taste the whiskies and try the Haggis. Show her what it's like to feel that "wee shiver doon airr baack" at the squirling of the pipes.

But at NO point start saying "Och aye the noo"!!

It's just a matter of time me ol' mate!!

[puckhead9]

My wife is very supportive. I got my tartan kilt 2 years ago which I would wear Sundays to church and local shopping. Three months ago I got a Utilikilt and wear it about 3 times a week. To work, the store, church, everywhere. Being in Southern California with the desert heat, the Utilikilt is much nicer to wear than the wool. I get comments (all favorable) from both men and women. The women have even looked at their husbands and told them they should dress like this!!

Wear the kilt and be proud!

[Iolaus]

[....]I get comments (all favorable) from both men and women. The women have even looked at their husbands and told them they should dress like this!!

I had a bad-*** biker/body-builder type looking at me weird... 'til his (very) hot-lookin' woman checked me out, said it was hot, and told him he should get one.

[davedove]

I had a bad-*** biker/body-builder type looking at me weird... 'til his (very) hot-lookin' woman checked me out, said it was hot, and told him he should get one.

The times I have met biker types while I was kilted, they gave me great compliments. Perhaps bikers as a group (there are, of course, exceptions) can appreciate someone who dresses a bit out of the "norm".

[Mr. bone]

The times I have met biker types while I was kilted, they gave me great compliments. Perhaps bikers as a group (there are, of course, exceptions) can appreciate someone who dresses a bit out of the "norm".

It's all the leather, patches and sunglasses! People are quite amused and surprised when we turn out to be nice folks
!

[Carolina Kiltman]

My wife is very supportive. I got my tartan kilt 2 years ago which I would wear Sundays to church and local shopping. Three months ago I got a Utilikilt and wear it about 3 times a week. To work, the store, church, everywhere. Being in Southern California with the desert heat, the Utilikilt is much nicer to wear than the wool. I get comments (all favorable) from both men and women. The women have even looked at their husbands and told them they should dress like this!!

Wear the kilt and be proud!

by the way From The Cape Fear Valley, NC