Made a kilted convert at a picnic!

[dutchy kilted]

A few weeks ago at my company picnic, the husband of a co-worker chatted me up about my USA casual. He said he always wanted to wear a kilt but had never seen anyone wearing one outside of a formal event.

I answered his questions and gave him Rocky's information, but really did not think anything of it, as encounters like this happen fairly frequently. (As I am sure it does to all of us.)

Last week the gentleman's wife came into my office to tell me that they had made a trip to Spring City to see Rocky over the weekend. Her husband had purchased two off the rack casual kilts and ordered a third. I thought she was going to be upset with me, but apparently he usually wore overalls or camouflage shorts (which she hated) and she loves the way he looks in kilts! He has already thrown out his shorts and overalls and is planning more kilt purchases and wants to start attending Highland Games so he can hang out with more kilties.

Another convert to the great rabble!

(And Rocky, if you are reading this, some kind of kickback would be great. Even just a free casual would be fine, just saying ...)

[Tarheel]

Knowing that kilts are addictive, this makes you a "Pusher". This is better than most of the fare served at a picnic (artery clogging food as the alternative). Maybe he will find his way to the XMarks.

[kiltedcontractor]

Knowing that kilts are addictive, this makes you a "Pusher". This is better than most of the fare served at a picnic (artery clogging food as the alternative). Maybe he will find his way to the XMarks.

I believe he is an addict like us. He tries to get others to "try it once.....youll love the feeling". ROCKY is the pusher. Very few only get one from Rocky.

[Evestay53]

Y'all are making me "hungry" to get my first kilt. I first have to justify/realize all the occasions that I would wear a kilt, company picnic and Midland Rockhounds ball games sound like excellent times. Kilt nights at pubs don't appeal to my wife and I because we don't drink alcohol and we feel funny going to such places. When the local Scottish society goes to restaurants, we could possibly join them then.

So thanks for your post!

[tpa]

Y'all are making me "hungry" to get my first kilt. I first have to justify/realize all the occasions that I would wear a kilt, company picnic and Midland Rockhounds ball games sound like excellent times. Kilt nights at pubs don't appeal to my wife and I because we don't drink alcohol and we feel funny going to such places. When the local Scottish society goes to restaurants, we could possibly join them then.

So thanks for your post!

@Evestay53, looks like you have been pondering this for long enough! Just get a casual kilt and wear it all the time or at least whenever you can. You don't need an occasion, just do it. You will get used to it and find out how comfortable it is, others will get used to it Your wife will hopefully like it and encourage you and in time it will become you. Then think about a second casual followed by something for more formal occasions, though the latter comes with a lot more clobber and expense. (I wear one daily, never see another from one month to the next, no adverse issues or comments, though even in England not everyone recognises a kilt for what it is.)

[Pegasys]

I'm still trying to get my wife to believe in the 'kiltversion' I started on a few years ago . She knows most everything I do I find pleasure in overdoing it a wee bit
I think after our first formal event at our clans upcoming AGM in Pleasonton CA she will see the light I see !

[FinnKilt]

even in England not everyone recognises a kilt for what it is.)

Well, 'even in England' the prevailing unquestioned assumption is that if you wear a kilt you must be Scottish - or, failing that (eg with a plain-colour, non-tartan fabric) Irish. I wear kilts because I like them, but if I have any Celtic ancestry it must be Roman-British Celts enslaved first by the AngloSaxon invaders and then by the Norsemen, and that's quite a while back. - A couple of days ago I was trimming our front hedge when a dad, young girl and dog passed on their evening walk. When they came back, the dad said: "I had quite a job explaining that the reason you wear a kilt is that you're Scottish." Poor guy, he looked quite nonplussed when I said: "Actually, I come from Yorkshire..."

[tpa]

A couple of days ago I was trimming our front hedge when a dad, young girl and dog passed on their evening walk. When they came back, the dad said: "I had quite a job explaining that the reason you wear a kilt is that you're Scottish." Poor guy, he looked quite nonplussed when I said: "Actually, I come from Yorkshire..."

I don't think Scotland makes much of an appearance in today's English school curriculum. I've come across a number of mothers trying to explain my kilt to their kids. ("Mummy there is a man in a skirt!")

[mikepalmer]

Y'all are making me "hungry" to get my first kilt. I first have to justify/realize all the occasions that I would wear a kilt, company picnic and Midland Rockhounds ball games sound like excellent times. Kilt nights at pubs don't appeal to my wife and I because we don't drink alcohol and we feel funny going to such places. When the local Scottish society goes to restaurants, we could possibly join them then.

So thanks for your post!

I got the kilt bug about a year and a half ago and now have 5 casual kilts. My wife originally hated hiking pants on me abut liked my first kilt better. Now I wear kilts most everwhere. I have nice kilts to go out in and others for kick around. I do everything in a kilt except cart wheels and yoga.

[Pegasys]

I developed a kilt-atude similarly ... only my wife is looking at me astonished all the time ... I used to wear jean shorts and t-shirts and certainly wouldn't have considered going anywhere that required me to wear shoes now I have 2 kilts & planning out my next , 3 sporrans , 2pr very nice kilt hose on thier way and a PC jacket in a pear tree ... er for those formal occasions you wouldnt have caught me dead at ...

I got the kilt bug about a year and a half ago and now have 5 casual kilts. My wife originally hated hiking pants on me abut liked my first kilt better. Now I wear kilts most everwhere. I have nice kilts to go out in and others for kick around. I do everything in a kilt except cart wheels and yoga.