You're calling kilts "80's" ?

**cavscout** · 22nd November 06, 07:16 AM

My wife is no fan of kilts and has also been harping on me to buy some straight cut jeans to replace the tapered leg jeans I typically wear. As you may have guessed, I respond to this by buying 5 kilts in a bit over a year and still wear the same jeans

Anyway, she shows up last night with a pair of jeans she wants me to try on :rolleyes: . I put them on and of course they are straight cut of course. She proceeds to go on about how much better they look. I go in the bathroom and stand in front of the mirror. Honestly, I didn't see much difference other than there was a bunch of cloth bunched up around my ankels. I thought, I just needed to pull them up a bit. Whoo! The crotch on these things is already maxed out! These are apparently "low rise" jeans! So, I have two ways to wear these...scruntchy around the ankels, or buried in my "stern" (not to mention the discomfort in the "bow". And now I'm destined to have to spend my entire day tucking in my shirt and pulling up my pants to keep my underwear or worse from showing!

So as I'm arguing my points about how illogical these are as clothing, my wife says "you have to get out of the 80's". An immediate calm falls over the bathroom and I lob the fatal blow over the wall and say, "so kilts are 80's?"

Yes, a grand canyon leap of logic, but it did the job I think.

So, I'm wearing the jeans today and can honestly say that from the knee up, I have never been as uncomfortable as I am right now (except for the time in college when we squeezed 30 people into a VW beetle only to find out someone in there had been at an all-you-can-eat burrito bar)

However, it's days like this when my choice to prefer kilts is affirmed and I pitty "those who have not the stones" to wear a kilt.

Kilts Up!

**RockyR** · 22nd November 06, 07:24 AM

I was in a department store 3 days ago and they had a sale on jeans. Since I've lost weight and do a VERY SELECT few activities in jeans (mostly doing activities to protect my shins), I figured I'd try a pair on. Not sure if I tried on the same kind as Cavscout, but my "boys" were NOT happy. I have worn a kilt every day for the last year (except for 2 occasions where I needed shin protection). I was COMPLETELY not ready for the confinement and lack of room.

Makes me love my kilts even more. I raise a glass with you Cavscout... to Freedom and "air down there".

**Schultz** · 22nd November 06, 07:27 AM

I bought a pair of jeans (Levi's 505, the only jeans I'll wear) for my wife's edification last month and, while I wasn't as uncomfortable as you two seem to have been, my boys MUCH prefer their freedom.

**Nick** · 22nd November 06, 07:51 AM

'Nothing wrong with the 80s.

Okay, so maybe there are a few things better left buried in the past, but seriously, how many kilts did you see walking around in 1983?

**Splash_4** · 22nd November 06, 07:57 AM

Now that is too funny! I spent my first entire day in the kilt yesterday (including taking my wife to a really nice italian resturant), and this morning when I pulled my jeans on, I told my wife I much prefer the kilt.... Her response...?

"So buy more of them!"

**turpin** · 22nd November 06, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Nick

'Nothing wrong with the 80s.

How about "mall hair" and big shoulder pads?

Seriously, I totally agree and hoist a glass

int: to the air down there.

turpin

(moving steadily toward majority kilted time.)

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 22nd November 06, 08:17 AM

Maybe she meant the 1880's?

**Doublewood** · 22nd November 06, 08:23 AM

I was thinking the 1580's, 1680's, 1780's, ...

**Alan H** · 22nd November 06, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by Splash_4

Now that is too funny! I spent my first entire day in the kilt yesterday (including taking my wife to a really nice italian resturant), and this morning when I pulled my jeans on, I told my wife I much prefer the kilt.... Her response...?

"So buy more of them!"

Hey, can I clone your wife?

**Tartan Hiker** · 22nd November 06, 09:45 AM

Cavscout,
My situation was very much like yours. My wife never wanted me to wear those abominable straight-leg jeans (not since about 1979 anyway, when I had the physique to pull it off) but when she found out that I meant to wear kilts out and about rather than just to "occasions" she cooled off significantly on the idea. I finally determined that she was just a bit creeped out by the "reginmental" thing. I told her that cotton boxers interfered with the hang of my kilts so one day she surprised me with a pair of silk boxers. I promised to wear them and invited her to purchase more at her convenience. Since then a new pair has been showing up every 2 or 3 weeks. She's delighted when I wear them, and the entire situation is much happier.

May not work for you, but it may be worth a try. Married life is stressful enough without adding to the list.

Bill