A collage I made to show doubting spouses

[Michael A]

It could go with the meme wording: "Because the first thing that comes to mind when seeing this picture is that they're obviously cross-dressing (not)"

[ForresterModern]

A few go pretty borderline on the "kilt", you left out Samuel L Jackson who looks great in a kilt. And even if I only showed my spouse (aka Wife here) the Sean Connery and Mel Gibson pics, it would not make a smidge of difference in her deference to the kilt. Some spouses/significant others are not easily if ever swayed from their feelings.

[Michael A]

A few go pretty borderline on the "kilt", you left out Samuel L Jackson who looks great in a kilt. And even if I only showed my spouse (aka Wife here) the Sean Connery and Mel Gibson pics, it would not make a smidge of difference in her deference to the kilt. Some spouses/significant others are not easily if ever swayed from their feelings.

Yes I knew about Samuel L Jackson but realised I had left him out after I posted it. The one in the shiny leather-like one is actor Van Diesel in an a Edinburgh Twenty-First Century kilt. I also included Beowulf, Russell Crowe's Gladiator, the Roman soldier and some utility kilts as ancient and modern examples of MUGs, to refute the prejudice that all kilts and their wearers must be Scottish, live in Scotland, or at least speak with a Scottish accent. I have Scottish ancestry, but that need to be a requisite to wearing any kind of kilt (especially the non-tartan varieties). My young Scottish doctor colleague at work thinks it is great that more people would consider wearing a kilt and he acknowledges that within one generation of living in Australia, his children will speak with Australian accents and call Australia home but have just as much claim to wear a kilt as him, or their contemporaries without Scottish heritage. That was what I was trying to communicate in the collage.

[OC Richard]

Good job there, showing much variety in a few images.

I wouldn't have thought about the Roman thing, probably because AFAIK it's not a kilt but rather the bottom of the shirt showing.

The Roman tunic



Ditto the ancient Irish shirt (leine) which 19th century Irish Revivalists, seeing the bottom stick out from under the jacket, thought was a kilt.

[Michael A]

Yes indeed, the Roman tunic is not a kilt. Nor is the garment depicted in the image off the cover of a recording of a recital of Beowulf (whom I am certain would not have dressed like a Gaul, with feathers in his helmet).

I was more showing in the image not so much kilts per se, but that the absence of trousers on indisputably masculine figures has a long history. The collage is intended as a refutation of "trouser tyranny" rather than promotion solely of kilts, although of course the kilt - be it traditional, utility or in between - is the most widespread manifestation of that today.

[GrainReaper]

My wife (and her embarrassment) would not be swayed by any pics (tried it) but over time the fact that I still wear the kilt out and about on errands in town, out to kilt nights, while traveling out of state for work..... I have been wearing her down like moving water wears rock.

She now will accompany me whilst I'm kilted, I think largely because of the stories I tell her about all the other women striking up conversations/flirting with me whilst I'm kilted.

she goes along to fend off the women (I think), and through doing that has realized that if I can look good enough to pull women of all ages to me while kilted, that she has nothing to be embarrassed about to be at my side.

[Michael A]

That's a good angle GrainReaper. At the moment I am sure my wife thinks it's a temporary phase. Once the Ferguson 16Oz, Crail jacket/vest and Prince Charlie outfit arrive she might reconsider that view.

[Kylida]

I'm dismayed to hear so many gents re not supported by their partners...My wife LOVES the kilts!

[kiltedtom]

Guess I am kind of lucky. I have no spouse. So I do not have to worry about what one would say. My friends seem to like the kilt. Only one brother and some of my students have issues. But then, my brother and I never agreed on anything as kids. Why should we start now? LOL

Have a great day, everyone.

Tom

[thecompaqguy]

My Mrs has never liked kilts and just about tolerates me in one, so I try to meet up with those who do... I have a lot (some are hasty ebay finds) so I have been finding a lot of them new homes... some I would never part with. She just has to get used to them. A lot of other women dig me in the kilt, much to her annoyance...