Topless Kilting

[Riverkilt]

Alex just posted some great pics of the Bathgate Highland Games. In one of them a young man is shown topless in a tartan kilt, no doubt due to the heat of the day. Summer is nearly upon us.

Rogerson785 remarked that he'd never be seen topless and kilted in public. That got me to remembering that I just visited the Utilikilts website a few days ago and a number of the pics in the Utilikilts gallery were of topless men in kilts.

Just a couple weeks ago this old fat man was hiking topless in a tartan kilt in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado...in private of course, save the lady with me.



And early in my kilting career Mike Butler of AmeriKilts used a topless pic of me kilted for a marketing poster.



And I've often gone topless kilting in hot weather - though as Rogerson points out - in a private area with a small group of friends.





So what do you think of topless kilting?

Is it just a way to show off tattoos?

Is it a common sense answer to the heat?

Is it best with contemporary kilts?

Is it okay with tartan kilts too?

If its not okay why are there so many photos of topless men in kilts in the kiltmaker's website galleries?

Do you have pics of topless kilting to post too?

What do the ladies think of topless kilted guys?

Enlighten me - not just what you think about topless kilting for yourself - but if you think its okay for others.

Ron

[Dianne B]

I think it would get me arrested. Of course, at my age, maybe no one would notice LOL!

[McMurdo]

It's fine for someone else, however it is not for me, no matter how hot it gets.

[Panache]

It's fine for someone else, however it is not for me, no matter how hot it gets.

After Hamish posed for all those highland romance novel covers wearing nothing on his manly chest but a plaid (and that pinned directly to his flesh!) I fear most of us would fail to measure up to his impossibly high bar of shirtless kilted masculinity.

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[NorCalPiper]

I'm 38 now and my 6 pack abs left about 10 years ago.....A mild gut and the beginnings man boobs have replaced it....Probably better that i leave a shirt on as to not make a spectacle of myself until i've lost all the weight I'm aiming for (35lbs so far, 40 more to go!). Now if i had that awesome art on my back instead of a couple of chinese characters (Ok...OK...It was in the 90's and EVERYONE was doing it) I might consider. Now? Um....No.

[Dan R Porter]

I got real excited when I saw this thread.

I am in no shape to go topless in public, and I have pale pale Irish skin.

I have no tatoos on my upper body, yet. Though when I do I might go, as you said, in private or in low key areas.

By the way, that is a fine, and might I say, huge terrapin tattoo! Nice!

Confidence comes with age I hope!

[GMan]

I do agree with Jamie. We have a high bar to reach.

[Riverkilt]

Highland romance novel covers?????......swoon....

[dfmacliam]

Cool back tat, Ron... As for the subject, it works for some, but not for others... As
The addage goes for me...I have a body of a god, unfortunatley that god is Buddah... Not as lean,... So if I were to go shirtless.. It would be in the woods where the only snickering to be heard, would be from the squirrels and rabbits.... besides I have a few tattoos on my chest and back, and I would like to keep the colors from fading out.

I guess I see it as, you dress respectfully, in public, shirts must be worn.. In private,or away from the general public... To each their own.

I could see myself shirtless in the woods, away from prying eyes, I would just have to deal with the snickering squirrels.

[ghostlight]

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