...and I promise...

[auld argonian]

So if you've read some of my previous posts and those of Kilted Code Warrior, you will note that we both managed to make it kilted to Celtic Fest in Chicago over the weekend.

And this was the first time I wore the thing in public and it was, indeed, not at all unusual and it was pretty comfortable and I don't know about anyone else but I thought that it looked pretty damn cool.

So I understand that one of the basic precepts of this group is that the kilt is not a costume to be worn only to Highland Games and Ren Faires and Celtic Fests...so I promise to abide by that and find other occasions to wear it out. Fortunately for me...I'm usually to be found at events where academics and their like congregate so that ought to make it a bit easier than wearing it into one of these South Side Chicago shot-and-a-beer joints where you'd swear that time stood still somewhere back in 1959...but I don't preclude that as a possibility...I've not only been thrown out of better joints than those but I've also personally thrown people out of better joints than those.

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argonian

[Blu (Ontario)]

So I understand that one of the basic precepts of this group is that the kilt is not a costume to be worn only to Highland Games and Ren Faires and Celtic Fests...so I promise to abide by that and find other occasions to wear it out...

The basic principal of the group is that you wear the kilt as it suits you best. Some people decide that they wish to wear kilts full time... great! Others wish to wear theirs on specific ocassions... wonderful. THe rest are everywhere in between. The important point is that you get emotionally as well as physically comfortable wearing it wherever and whenever you think it will suit you to do so. Most of the rest of the stuff discussed here is just details. (It's mostly good stuff though.)

blu

[bear]

So I understand that one of the basic precepts of this group is that the kilt is not a costume to be worn only to Highland Games and Ren Faires and Celtic Fests...so I promise to abide by that and find other occasions to wear it out.

Some of us think that way; others prefer kilts as costumes. Most are somewhere in between.
You'll find as many opinions on that subject as there are members.

[Archangel]

everything we wear is a costume, if you like Jung/Freud....

Remember, if God had wanted us to be naked, he would have made us that way.

[arrogcow]

In the last 4 years, I have learned that there is no place I can't wear a kilt. No one has ever given me a hard time to my face (a few drive by's by idiots). As for academics, they are usually like, "Oh you're wearing a kilt, how nice." It is the working dude that is, "Hey cool, where do I get one of those." usually in reference to a workman's UK.

Adam

[Hamish]

..................... I understand that one of the basic precepts of this group is that the kilt is not a costume to be worn only to Highland Games and Ren Faires and Celtic Fests...so I promise to abide by that and find other occasions to wear it out. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................
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argonian

I believe you will come to the realisation, Argonian, that you have no need of "other occasions" to wear your kilt(s). Any day is "occasion" enough. ;)

[Robert Lamb]

I agree 100% with everyone"s post.
"To thy own self be true".
We are here for only a short time, then we are a long time gone..
So wear your kilts as you see fit, not as others would like to see you.
All our clothiing, from head to toe. is a costume of sorts. So smile and be HAPPY.
Robert "the kilted"Lamb

[flyv65]

Wear them how you wish, when you wish, unless restricted by safety and your company's (possible) dress code: isn't that why any of us wear any of the things we do? A good friend of mine tells me he can't wear a kilt-he'd get his butt kicked. I argue that if he wore a kilt nobody would want to mess with some one so small...he must be one tough SOB !

Bryan...just be careful throwing frisbees-the waist pivot makes a kilt fly *way* up there...

[Archangel]

A good friend of mine tells me he can't wear a kilt-he'd get his butt kicked. I argue that if he wore a kilt nobody would want to mess with some one so small...he must be one tough SOB !

I don't know how it is in the US but I'm getting the impression that, in Canada, a kilted man is assumed as a Scot and just waiting to turn into an armed berserker....and we're such peace loving people. One of my daughter's friends is kilted, he's a skinny little, what, 20-21 year old, and people back off from him, tell their friends not to make rude comments. It's weird, according to my daughter, who knows from weird.

Basically, go with your confidence level. Meeting up with friends at a Scottish event is a good start and you get a feel for it in a more or less comfortable environment. After this, try a couple more events and see how it goes. If you can't get comfortable, confident, don't force yourself, you know your own limits. Comfort and confidence are the most important accessories to wearing a kilt.

[chasem]

...One of my daughter's friends is kilted, he's a skinny little, what, 20-21 year old, and people back off from him, tell their friends not to make rude comments. It's weird, according to my daughter, who knows from weird.

I've been wearing a kilt once a week to class this semester. One of the guys asked me one day "Why do you wear the kilt?" I explained, and he asked "do you ever take any crap for it?"

I stated that I'd yet to hear a rude comment about it, generally simple questions, or compliments ("I like the kilt!"). His response?

"Yeah, I guess anyone who would think about saying wouldn't really have the balls to! I mean, you don't mess with a guy in a kilt!"

I couldn't help but laugh. I am 6'2" tall, but am relatively scrawny. I've never really thought of myself as intimidating