Kilts proven to be recognized as a masculine garment...

[redbaronx71]

i am a member of the Utilikilt group and Ron MacDonald told me to post my recent story on this board as well... (i posted this one the UK Yahoo board a few days ago...)

some of you know me and some of you don't, but for those of you who
don't know me i am izzy, one of about a half-dozen Utili-chicks on
this list.

anyway, i was wearing my Postal Blue neo-trad and a t-shirt at work
yesterday (retail-- used bookstore chain) and i can hear this woman
coming down the aisle calling to me (she's about twenty feet away...
and she's only seen me from behind):

"Sir, excuse me... SIR!" now, i KNOW that she is talking to me, but i
decide have some fun and to milk it...(and NO i'm not offended by her calling me "sir" in this situation, only when people call me "Sir" when looking me in
the face...)

"SIR! EXCUSE ME!" she approaches and i turn around. i AIN'T no guy

okay, sure from behind all she can see is boots, kilt, BIG black
tattoos, and a mohawk pulled back into a ponytail... but she thought i
was a guy because i was wearing a KILT. and this is in Wisconsin
Suburban Hell (Brookfield, about a half hour west of Milwaukee).

so, for those of you worried about getting called a chick or a
crossdresser for wearing a kilt, stop worrying so MUCH... sure it will
still happen but not because those people are honestly confused.
People will call you those things because those people are mean and
insecure.

no, it doesn't take guts for a chick to wear a kilt, but it does take
some guts for a chick to do a lot of the other things i do.

izzy

[Archangel]

okay, you got me.
then what happened, after you turned around?

[redbaronx71]

well, the woman got all flustered when she realized that i was a chick.. "um, i saw the kilt and um... um.. anyway... i'm looking for this book..." i think that she muttered some "sorry"s too... i DON'T MIND being mistaken for a guy because despite my large boobs it happens a LOT... didn't happen for a LONG time until i went back to the mohawk... now it happens a LOT. my hair is too long to stand it up so either i wear it down (and you can't tell that it's a mohawk) or i pull it back into a ponytail

yeah, i get called "Sir" to my face. it's funny

[GMan]

Well um err ahh I have never met a bootblack before that wears a kilt. Loved the story!

[redbaronx71]

Well um err ahh I have never met a bootblack before that wears a kilt. Loved the story!

ah... but have you met a lot of bootblacks? i know a handful of us that have and wear kilts... i rarely black boots while kilted... i can be a messy bootblack (i LOVE ending a night covered in polish!) but i loaned a friend of mine a kilt to black in... another kilt-chick. she doesn't have one of her own but she wants one and her partner has a Rob Roy tartan kilt

[Sir Robert]

First of all welcome Izzy.

On kilts being universally recognized as a man's garment, I have to go to the women's skirt sections of Goth shops to find men's kilts. There on the same rack, between the micro-mini "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my daughter and the long "kilt-like-skirts" that I buy for my wife, are the men's kilts. This is after I explained the differance to the store's manager two weeks ago.

[Riverkilt]

Thanks for sharing that story here, it makes a solid point.

Hope you'll stick around the board. Love your website.

'tis a pirates life for me too...Arrrrrr

If I ever get up to Wisconsin I'll bring my knee high replica cavalry boots.

Ron