Kilts proven to be recognized as a masculine garment...

[redbaronx71]

i am a member of the Utilikilt group and Ron MacDonald told me to post my recent story on this board as well... (i posted this one the UK Yahoo board a few days ago...)

some of you know me and some of you don't, but for those of you who
don't know me i am izzy, one of about a half-dozen Utili-chicks on
this list.

anyway, i was wearing my Postal Blue neo-trad and a t-shirt at work
yesterday (retail-- used bookstore chain) and i can hear this woman
coming down the aisle calling to me (she's about twenty feet away...
and she's only seen me from behind):

"Sir, excuse me... SIR!" now, i KNOW that she is talking to me, but i
decide have some fun and to milk it...(and NO i'm not offended by her calling me "sir" in this situation, only when people call me "Sir" when looking me in
the face...)

"SIR! EXCUSE ME!" she approaches and i turn around. i AIN'T no guy

okay, sure from behind all she can see is boots, kilt, BIG black
tattoos, and a mohawk pulled back into a ponytail... but she thought i
was a guy because i was wearing a KILT. and this is in Wisconsin
Suburban Hell (Brookfield, about a half hour west of Milwaukee).

so, for those of you worried about getting called a chick or a
crossdresser for wearing a kilt, stop worrying so MUCH... sure it will
still happen but not because those people are honestly confused.
People will call you those things because those people are mean and
insecure.

no, it doesn't take guts for a chick to wear a kilt, but it does take
some guts for a chick to do a lot of the other things i do.

izzy

[Archangel]

okay, you got me.
then what happened, after you turned around?

[redbaronx71]

well, the woman got all flustered when she realized that i was a chick.. "um, i saw the kilt and um... um.. anyway... i'm looking for this book..." i think that she muttered some "sorry"s too... i DON'T MIND being mistaken for a guy because despite my large boobs it happens a LOT... didn't happen for a LONG time until i went back to the mohawk... now it happens a LOT. my hair is too long to stand it up so either i wear it down (and you can't tell that it's a mohawk) or i pull it back into a ponytail

yeah, i get called "Sir" to my face. it's funny

[GMan]

Well um err ahh I have never met a bootblack before that wears a kilt. Loved the story!

[redbaronx71]

Well um err ahh I have never met a bootblack before that wears a kilt. Loved the story!

ah... but have you met a lot of bootblacks? i know a handful of us that have and wear kilts... i rarely black boots while kilted... i can be a messy bootblack (i LOVE ending a night covered in polish!) but i loaned a friend of mine a kilt to black in... another kilt-chick. she doesn't have one of her own but she wants one and her partner has a Rob Roy tartan kilt

[Sir Robert]

First of all welcome Izzy.

On kilts being universally recognized as a man's garment, I have to go to the women's skirt sections of Goth shops to find men's kilts. There on the same rack, between the micro-mini "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my daughter and the long "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my wife, are the men's kilts. This is after I explained the differance to the store's manager two weeks ago.

[Mike n NC]

Well welcome to xmarks and thanks for the story. Thanks for the memory trip too, haven't heard of 'bootblack' in a long, long time. Wonder how that would work with a leather kilt?

Mike

[redbaronx71]

First of all welcome Izzy.

On kilts being universally recognized as a man's garment, I have to go to the women's skirt sections of Goth shops to find men's kilts. There on the same rack, between the micro-mini "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my daughter and the long "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my wife, are the men's kilts. This is after I explained the differance to the store's manager two weeks ago.

well, you need to remember that goth boys have been wearing girls skirts in a non-crossdresser fashion for decades. the goth boys will find mens kilts in amongst the women's skirts. it could also be that the store put them there intentionally-- maybe women were buying more of them than men anyway so the store put them with the women's stuff.

well, if they are the "kilts" from Hot Topic, they don't look a LOT like kilts anyway. i have one and i have never been told "nice kilt" while wearing it.

[Alan H]

Hi, izzy, and welcome to the fray! Pretty funny story...*g*

[bikercelt1]

Hi Izzy, welcome to xmarks. I'm familiar with your posts at the utilikilt site and I've always enjoyed your insights and perspective. I still scan stuff over there but I feel much more at home here. I'm glad Ron persuaded you to check in here, I hope you'll stay and become part of this clan too.

Jamie