Another kilted farmer's market observation

[Phogfan86]

I am now fully prepared to say that the power of the kilt is greater than we imagined.

I mentioned in another thread that my wife and I went to the local farmer's market today. I was casual, in my Pride of Scotland, navy blue hoody, tactical boots and black wool socks.

When I was with my wife, I got zero comments. A couple of weird stares, an equal number of smiles and nods of tacit approval, but other than the nice lady and her husband (from Edinburgh) at the Celtic jewelry booth, no one said a word.

At one point, I struck out on my own when things at one end of the market got a little crowded -- I have a thing about crowds. I told her I was bugging out and to call me on my cell when she was done where she was.

In the five or six minutes I wandered by myself, I got four comments from females of the species, from, "Looking good!" to, "D@mn, I love a man in a kilt." I am 45 years old and 5-foot-8 any way you measure me; no one will ever confuse me and George Clooney in a line-up.

The power of the kilt is very, very real. And since my wife wasn't around when it manifested, I can only conclude that it's also a little naughty.

[Bugbear]

Hmmm, there's a small farmer's market up the street a couple of blocks from me, but I've never worn a kilt there...

Glad you were noticed.

[Spartan]

Interesting. As I think about it, I think that most of my "power of the Kilt" remarks have been made when my wife was not with me. Anyone else?

[Sammac]

That's the only thing that bugs my wife when I wear one of my kilts is the attention I get from the female gender. I am only 5'9", 51 grey hair and beard( which my wife says makes me look older) and a little thick in middle. It must be the power of the kilt!

[Kid Cossack]

It's not the kilt. It's the kilt . . . and how you wear it. When I was new to kilting, I was nervous, uncertain, worried about how I'd bear myself, how people would react. (I'm from Southeast Texas, where kilts be right scarce on the ground.)

If you've mastered your fears, your uncertainties, your doubts, when you wear the kilt, they see the kilt, but that's not all they see. They see a man who is not a lout (we have no louts here, yes?), a man who dresses differently, but in a respectable manner. They see a man who's willing to say, "Right, I don't wear pants."

The kilt is a tool, it's garb, it's raiment; as such it has neither will nor action. It is a representation of who you are. Absent you, it's a few yards of cloth---nothing special. Ah, but when it's you and the kilt, that's a different matter, then the kilt is a focus, a hex, a charm. It is, if you will, a focus, as a Catholic or Orthodox believer, or a Buddhist, might carry their rosaries----it's a device for "setting yourself apart."

It's not the power of the kilt, me lads, it's YOUR POWER. The kilt merely helps you set it free.

And I speak from my own experience, and thus it is anecdotal. If you don't walk with a spring in your step when you go forth kilted, well, this doesn't apply to you.

Just for me? Why, there's a spring in my step when I'm kilted that is rarely there when I'm a-trousered.

It's not the kilt; it's me.

It's not the kilt; it's you.

[Highlander31]

Well said, Kid Cossack.

[Geoff Withnell]

That's the only thing that bugs my wife when I wear one of my kilts is the attention I get from the female gender. I am only 5'9", 51 grey hair and beard( which my wife says makes me look older) and a little thick in middle. It must be the power of the kilt!

I am a fortunate man. When another lady says something like "I love a man in a kilt!", Michele gets a big, smug grin on her face, and says something like "So do I! This one!".

Geoff Withnell

[McFarkus]

I It's not the power of the kilt, me lads, it's YOUR POWER. The kilt merely helps you set it free.

And I speak from my own experience, and thus it is anecdotal. If you don't walk with a spring in your step when you go forth kilted, well, this doesn't apply to you.

Just for me? Why, there's a spring in my step when I'm kilted that is rarely there when I'm a-trousered.

It's not the kilt; it's me.

It's not the kilt; it's you.

You may be right, but the kilt definitely helps.

[dfmacliam]

its good to have that power... it makes you walk a little taller... a spring in your step... and a perpetual smile on your face.... yeah its the confidence you show wearing your kilt... and it doesn't hurt the women thinks you "looooookkkk maaaaarrrrrrvvvvvooollloooouuuuussssss"

[Cynthia]

When another lady says something like "I love a man in a kilt!", Michele gets a big, smug grin on her face, and says something like "So do I! This one!".

Thanks, I'll have to use that too, along with "That's for his WIFE to know" (when a woman asks him the Question).