Kilt reference by Chi Trib columnist

**auld argonian** · 31st January 06, 12:30 PM

Okay...here we go again:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...avrailnews-nav

You'll have to read through most of the column to get to the reference to kilts but I think we have a potential convert here.

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**Ugly Bear** · 31st January 06, 12:51 PM

Okay, THIS guy gets it. He gives the fashion industry just what it deserves, and the ladies in his office give him sound advice ... and his reason for turning down that advice is plausible. (I'd assume he doesn't wear shorts for the same reason.)

**mddock58** · 1st February 06, 05:22 AM

Nice tag.

Maybe he should do a follow-up on kilts!

**UmAnOnion** · 1st February 06, 08:09 AM

I say we vote him an honorary member of the XMarks clan & come up with a nice kilt to wear. That woudl get the ladies knocking at his door big time.

And as one who is as bowlegged as they come there aint nothing wrong with bow legs dag-nabbit!

**GMan** · 1st February 06, 10:06 AM

Good for him!

**michael steinrok** · 1st February 06, 10:44 PM

Bowlegged wearing a swashbuckler shirt?Poor guy. Do we have a charity to send this guy. How about Kilted Eye For The Straight Guy?

**Beery** · 2nd February 06, 01:43 AM

I sent him the following email:

"In your article you wrote:

'...Later, two women took pity on me and said I should wear Scottish kilts to work to be sexy. But I'm as bowlegged as Rumpelstiltskin.

So I guess I'll stick with the cardigans.'

Take it from a man who wears the kilt often, the kilt makes bow-legged men look good too - it also hides a beer gut very well indeed. The natural stance in the kilt is with legs further apart than when wearing trousers, so it makes one look more manly, more virile and it actually serves to hide bow-leggedness. I realise that what you wrote was in jest, but the ladies do love the kilt, and it's much more masculine than those sissy trousers. Wear it to work and you'll get all the attention from the opposite sex that you can handle - but as with the low-cut blouse for women, don't expect it to gain you a promotion.

Trust me, it's a chick magnet - just ask my wife. Actually, ask any woman. Why do you think that so many of those pulp romance paperbacks are set in Scotland between the 17th and 19th centuries? ;)

- Ian Cooper, non-Scottish yet a proud kilt-wearer. Once you put one on you'll never go back."