One day I was a wandering...

**Galant** · 14th March 05, 08:57 AM

and as I wandered I began to wonder...

as long as we, and others, keep buying kilts, then their popularity can only grow. From what I can tell, none of the kilt makers are in trouble, instead, business is booming (I could be wrong).

So what does the future hold? I considered a time when kilts become common place and men and boys all over are wearing them. As I pondered this I then thought, "and you what'll happen then...the young kids on the street corner wearing their weird new-fangled kilt things will point and laugh at me, the 'old-fashioned' and 'out-of-date' kilt-wearer!"

Ah, I wonder if the day will ever arrive when I get mocked for being 'old-school' in my kiltwearing habits!

**Doc Hudson** · 14th March 05, 09:51 AM

Nothing wrong with being a Traditionalist.

I wore Stetsons, vests, and boots, drove American made cars/trucks, hunted with lever-action rifles, and generally carry a Single-Action Revolver. I'm a staunch believere in the Constitution of the United States, Rugged Individualism, and the Bible. All in a day of reversed baseball caps, AR-15's/M-16's, sub-compact riceburners, high-capacity Wondernines, subversive socialists, welfare whiners, and athiests.

I've gotten my share of odd looks and insults for the way I've dressed for over 30 years. I've listened to snide remarks about my vehicles, and jokes about my antiquated guns, and insults about my Patriotism, religion, and stubborn individualism. Quite frankly I don't give a tinker's damn about what other folks think of my mode dress, politics, religion, or the tools I choose to use for hunting or defense.

Wear your tartan's with pride and let the idiots dress as they will.

**GMan** · 14th March 05, 10:17 AM

We are all a bunch of individuals! Eccentrics if you will.

We all our very strong willed individuals who really do not care what other people think.

The kiltmakers get their business from people like us, and when other guys see how great and wonderful we look (the stares, the wow's from the ladies and other guys, etc.) they too will buy kilts.

My dream is to have every male I see be kilted. My preference is to be traditional, much like what you are saying, but do not rule any other way of kilt wearing out (as long as we do it with class).

I see that we are a bunch of trendsetters, and they always are set apart from the norm. I feel that we will be held in awe because of our stand in kiltwearing as trendsetters.

We wear it with pride and it shows, if people want to laugh, they just don't get it!

Just my ramblings.

**Doc Hudson** · 14th March 05, 10:57 AM

Funny thing Glenn. I started wearing hats and boots over 30 years ago. Lots of laughs and wisecracks.

The the movie Urban Cowboy came out. Some of the very people who were worse about making fun of how I dressed spent the most on their Urban Cowboy duds. I regret to confess that I knocked off more than a few hats and reminded the owners of their smartassed words a few years earlier.

One bad thing about trendsetting, when the trend becomes general, it becomes much less fun.

**GMan** · 14th March 05, 11:27 AM

So true Doc, so true!

**philibeg** · 14th March 05, 11:48 AM

Welfare whiners? Atheists? Is everyone you feel falls into those catagories instantly and irrevocably an idiot? Are people who don't wear kilts idiots?

Can we not be tolerant towards others, as we would have others be tolerant towards us? Doesn't the Bible say something about turning the other cheek?

We are all just people, failible, mortal. Can't we be just a bit nice to one another?

**Doc Hudson** · 14th March 05, 12:49 PM

If you are trying to pick a fight, go for it bubba!

Just take it to private message.

Like I said, I don't give a tinker's damn what anyone things of me, my opinions, politics, religion, or hardware. And that anyone includes you.

**Raphael** · 14th March 05, 02:01 PM

I rather not see the Kilt to go mainstream.

Imagine this:

1. Kilts being worn Hip Hop Style.
2. YOur favourite Tartan may be out of fashion in 12 short months
3. Duct Tape Kilts become fashionable in the redneck world
4. There will be more cases of wardrobe malfunction during the Superbowl half time show
5. Cranky scots are going to march the streets and ask people to boycott the new kilts
6. Tartan Day will no longer be special
7. Ladies will stop being curious on what we wear under our kilts
8. There will no more Kilts Night or free Guinness at the Doolin's
9. Hamish will no longer be the man with the most kilts
10. Michael Jackson in a Kilt.