It happened again

[Alan H]

We're hosting a number of contacters here at my University during the summer. One in particular is using a lot of our facilities to teach multimedia workshops. Because they use our classrooms, I'm the first call when any issues pop up in the classrooms. Like for example, on Tuesday one of the projectors (mounted to the ceiling) went on the fritz and I had to fix it ASAP. Fortunately, I wasn't kilted on Tuesday, 'cause I had to get up on a ladder in the middle of the class!

However, they've all gotten used to seeing me kilted several days a week....like today, for example.

So I'm waiting at the coffee kiosk thats' between my building and the main undergrad library, and about a dozen people from one of those classes, out on a fifteen minute break, come out to get coffee, too. We start up a conversation about kilts. Five minutes later I realize that I'm standing in the center, the complete and total focus of attention, of a circle of about a dozen women, all looking me and my kilt over quite approvingly.

Is it me?

...Or is it that Ramsay Blue Philabeg from USA Kilts, eh? Or is it the new black driving cap I'm wearing today..what??? I don't think this would happen if I was wearing Dockers, you know?

I'll come to my OWN conclusions! LOLOL!

[Dreadbelly]

I find my self in that situation as well.

Must be the coffee.

[Hamish]

I enjoyed a very similar experience on Sunday Alan. I'd been invited to a friend's 50th Birthday party - a lunchtime 'do' held in a large garden with rolling lawns and with the food and drink (thankfully) in the cool of marquees. The only person I knew was the birthday-boy; the others were all total strangers - but not for long. By the time I'd selected a glass of wine, first one and then another woman had introduced themselves and began enquiring about the kilt. [Oh, I was wearing the muted brown kilt from KiltStore.net with my brown Freelander sporran, a cream Polo shirt, cream hose with muted brown flashes and brown 'boat' shoes]

Before I knew it, I think there were six women and one man standing around me, firing questions (none of them 'inappropriate'!) about that kilt, my other kilts and kilts in general. Having mentioned camouflage kilts at one point, and a questioner not apparently being able to visualise such a thing, I produced a Utilikilts business card, which shows Steven wearing a camo UK. That started a burst of requests for cards! Although I seldom leave home without a selection of kiltmakers' cards, I don't think I have had an opportunity to hand any out for several months. Yesterday, I should have had more with me - I gave away over fifteen cards: Utilikilts, Union Kilts, KiltStore.net and TFCK.

I am rather thinking that more than one wife will be giving her husband a kilt for Christmas as a result of that.

Unusually for me at such events, I had a great time. Usually, I am a bit of a wallflower at parties where I know no-one, but that certainly was not the case on Sunday. I was not on my own for one minute of the four hours I was there. This Friday evening, I am going to a 70th Birthday party, again an outdoor event, where I will know only the hostess. It will be interesting to see how the two parties compare ......... and I must remember to take a good supply of business cards!

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Usually, I am a bit of a wallflower at parties where I know no-one, but that certainly was not the case on Sunday.

Wall flower? With those legs?!

Leave it to you guys to get nothing but appropriate and tasteful comments. I guess that it just goes to show that it's not always what you wear... but how you wear it. You wear a shirt that proclaims your affinity for sheep, and you're gonna attract wolves. You wear a complete and classy outfit that shows your class, and you're gonna receive classy comments.

We've always talked about "it's how you handle yourself" with the kilts. It's also how you show your true personality. Here are two fine examples that we can be proud of!

[Hamish]

Wall flower? With those legs?!

You are TOO kind, Jimmy!!!!

[GMan]

Coffee does strange things to guys in kilts, and I do speak from experience!

[Riverkilt]

Now I ask you...WHO....would....EVER....even consider wearing boat shoes with a kilt?

LET ALONE....pull it off with elan?

ONLY Hamish the Great.

I bow to your creativity sir.

Wallflower??

Hah!


I'm off to shop for boat shoes,

Ron